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- Episode 1 — You Were Never Not Enough
Coal and diamonds are the same element. So why does one sit in a scuttle and the other sit on a ring? The answer is why this podcast exists.
In this first episode of Always Be A Diamond, Yvonne Matzk opens the season with the idea at the heart of everything: that you were never coal to begin with. She shares the story of the industry awards she won, what they did and didn't do for her confidence, and why so many of us achieve the thing and still don't feel like the diamond.
What you will take away:
Why coal and diamonds being the same element changes how you see your own worth
The difference between being told your value and actually believing it
Why external achievement rarely fixes internal doubt, and what does
Your One Thing to carry into the rest of the season
Mentioned in this episode:
The Always Be A Diamond premise, introduced here and built across the season
Work with Yvonne and go deeper:
Website: www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Courses: Diamond Confidence, Diamond Connections and Diamond Leadership at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Newsletter: weekly lessons to your inbox at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
About Yvonne
Yvonne Matzk is the founder of Coachere and a WABC Registered Corporate Coach with twenty-five years in the technology industry. She is the author of Conditioning Kills Confidence, Smashing the Class Ceiling, and the creator of the frameworks behind the Always Be A Diamond coaching universe.
Subscribe to the channel for new episodes and share this with someone who needs to hear it.
See your worth, know your value, and always, always be a diamond.
#AlwaysBeADiamond #Confidence #Coachere #WomenInBusiness #Coaching
About the show
Always Be A Diamond is a podcast about confidence, connection and leadership with keynote speaker and author Yvonne Matzk. Practical frameworks and honest conversations for anyone who has ever been underestimated, including by themselves.
Go deeper
Courses, free tools and the community: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/programmes
Book Yvonne to speak: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/keynotes
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-matzk-rcc%E2%84%A2-7abb931/
Books: Conditioning Kills Confidence and Smashing the Class Ceiling, both on Amazon
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9 min - Episode 2 — The Weight You Never Chose
Nobody is born doubting themselves. So where does it come from? This episode traces the doubt back to where it was installed.
In this episode of Always Be A Diamond, Yvonne Matzk explains how conditioning arrives, not as one big event, but as seed after seed until the doubt feels like it was always yours.
She shares the tennis club story, being turned away at nearly seven years old for not wearing whites, and introduces the Characters of Conditioning, the voices in your head that shape how you see yourself.
What you will take away:
How conditioning is installed so quietly you mistake it for truth
The three Characters of Conditioning and how to spot which one is loudest in you
Why naming the character takes away half its power
Your One Thing, name the voice that runs commentary on everything you do
Mentioned in this episode:
The Characters of Conditioning, from Yvonne's book Conditioning Kills Confidence
Work with Yvonne and go deeper:
Website: www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Courses: Diamond Confidence, Diamond Connections and Diamond Leadership at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Newsletter: weekly lessons to your inbox at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
About Yvonne
Yvonne Matzk is the founder of Coachere and a WABC Registered Corporate Coach with twenty-five years in the technology industry. She is the author of Conditioning Kills Confidence, Smashing the Class Ceiling, and the creator of the frameworks behind the Always Be A Diamond coaching universe.
Subscribe to the channel for new episodes and share this with someone who needs to hear it.
See your worth, know your value, and always, always be a diamond.
#AlwaysBeADiamond #Confidence #Coachere #WomenInBusiness #Conditioning
About the show
Always Be A Diamond is a podcast about confidence, connection and leadership with keynote speaker and author Yvonne Matzk. Practical frameworks and honest conversations for anyone who has ever been underestimated, including by themselves.
Go deeper
Courses, free tools and the community: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/programmes
Book Yvonne to speak: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/keynotes
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-matzk-rcc%E2%84%A2-7abb931/
Books: Conditioning Kills Confidence and Smashing the Class Ceiling, both on Amazon
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 min - Episode 3 — Same Element, Different Story
A lump of coal and a diamond are the same element. One gets burned. One gets insured. This episode is about which one you have been told you are.
In this episode of Always Be A Diamond, Yvonne Matzk reframes everything you have read as evidence that you are not enough. The knockbacks, the doubt, the rooms where you felt you did not belong none of it was proof of your limits. It was the formation process. Drawing on her own business breakup, she shows how the pressure you never chose was making you a diamond all along.
What you will take away:
Why coal and diamond being identical changes how you read your own past
How to see pressure and setback as formation, not failure
The difference between what happened to you and the story you built from it
Your One Thing, choose one setback to re-read as formation
Mentioned in this episode:
The coal and diamond premise, introduced in Episode 1 and built across the season
Work with Yvonne and go deeper:
Website: www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Courses: Diamond Confidence, Diamond Connections and Diamond Leadership at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Newsletter: weekly lessons to your inbox at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
About Yvonne
Yvonne Matzk is the founder of Coachere and a WABC Registered Corporate Coach with twenty-five years in the technology industry. She is the author of Conditioning Kills Confidence, Smashing the Class Ceiling and the creator of the frameworks behind the Always Be A Diamond coaching universe.
Subscribe to the channel for new episodes and share this with someone who needs to hear it.
See your worth, know your value, and always, always be a diamond.
#AlwaysBeADiamond #Confidence #Coachere #WomenInBusiness #Mindset
About the show
Always Be A Diamond is a podcast about confidence, connection and leadership with keynote speaker and author Yvonne Matzk. Practical frameworks and honest conversations for anyone who has ever been underestimated, including by themselves.
Go deeper
Courses, free tools and the community: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/programmes
Book Yvonne to speak: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/keynotes
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-matzk-rcc%E2%84%A2-7abb931/
Books: Conditioning Kills Confidence and Smashing the Class Ceiling, both on Amazon
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
8 min - Podcast Trailor
Coal and diamonds are the same element. Carbon. The only difference is pressure and time.
Welcome to Always Be A Diamond, the podcast that helps you see your worth, know your value and stop dimming your light to make other people comfortable.
Hosted by Yvonne Matzk, founder of Coachere and a twenty-five-year veteran of the technology industry, this is coaching you can carry into your working life.
Every episode gives you one story, one tool and one thing you can use straight away, covering confidence, communication, connection, courageous conversations, productivity and leadership.
This is the trailer. Subscribe now so you are there from the first episode.
Go deeper:
Website: www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
Courses: Diamond Confidence, Diamond Connections and Diamond Leadership
Newsletter: weekly lessons at www.alwaysbeadiamond.com
See your worth, know your value, and always, always be a diamond.
#AlwaysBeADiamond #Confidence #Coachere #WomenInBusiness #Podcast
About the show
Always Be A Diamond is a podcast about confidence, connection and leadership with keynote speaker and author Yvonne Matzk. Practical frameworks and honest conversations for anyone who has ever been underestimated, including by themselves.
Go deeper
Courses, free tools and the community: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/programmes
Book Yvonne to speak: https://www.alwaysbeadiamond.com/keynotes
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonne-matzk-rcc%E2%84%A2-7abb931/
Books: Conditioning Kills Confidence and Smashing the Class Ceiling, both on Amazon
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Always Be A Diamond
From the publisher's feed
Always Be A Diamond with Yvonne Matzk
No one is born lacking confidence. So what changes?
Always Be A Diamond is a podcast about confidence,…
connection and leadership, hosted by keynote speaker and author Yvonne Matzk. After 25 years in the technology industry, leading teams to more than a billion in global revenue and being underestimated in plenty of rooms along the way, Yvonne knows the biggest thing holding people back is rarely ability. It is conditioning.
Season one takes you through the frameworks one at a time. Spotting the beliefs that hold you back and exchanging them for better ones. The seven facets of Diamond Confidence. Turning quiet contacts into real connections. Giving feedback that lands, delegating properly and leading without waiting for the job title.
Season two hands over the microphone. Diamond Stories from people who were told they could not, and did.
Practical tools, honest conversations and no corporate waffle. For anyone who has ever wondered whether they are good enough, and is ready to find out that they always were.
New episodes, real stories, and everything you need to stop waiting to feel ready.
See your worth, know your value, and always, always be a diamond.
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