Clear is the NEW Confident with Casey Watts

Many high-achieving, impact-driven women wait until they feel credible, ready, or qualified before taking action. In this episode of Clear is the NEW Confident, Casey makes the case that confidence shows up after the bold move, and then names what has to come before it.

It starts in a conference room full of people waiting on a presenter who never arrived. What Casey did next, and everything that followed, is a story you'll want to hear in full.

1. The three clarities (identity, presence, and purpose) that help you move past "I could never do that"
2. What your reticular activating system has to do with noticing opportunities
3. How to respond to fear so it stops dictating your potential

This week, notice the moments when you think about making a bold move and hold back. Ask yourself what you would learn if it didn't go as planned.

Connect with Casey:

• Website: clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: instagram.com/catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: youtube.com/@catchupwithcasey

Ready to build confidence through clarity? Start at clearisthenewconfident.com.

Booking a speaker for your next event, conference, or retreat? Visit caseywattscoaching.com.

Always Be Coaching: How Your Mindset Shapes Every Conversation with Chrissy Beltran

If you lead, mentor, or support others, you are coaching far more often than your calendar shows. It happens in the hallway, in the last two minutes of a meeting, and in that quick "I don't know how I'm going to get all this done."

In this episode of Clear is the New Confident, Casey sits down with coaching consultant and author Chrissy Beltran to unpack her Let Me Be Clear statement: your coaching mindset affects every interaction you have.

Chrissy shares the three words she borrowed from her college job selling cutlery (yes, really) and how they changed the way she shows up for the people she supports. For high-achieving, impact-driven women who pour into others every day, this conversation offers a clearer, more confident way to lead in everyday moments.

In this episode, you'll discover:

1. The three-word mindset shift that turns passing comments into meaningful next steps
2. How to recognize the invitations hidden inside everyday frustrations
3. What to do when the fear of hearing "no" keeps you quiet
4. How to offer support with confidence while respecting someone's boundaries
5. Why flexible, responsive approaches help you reach more of the people you serve

About Chrissy Beltran

Chrissy is an El Paso-based consultant who helps schools, coaches, and districts design coaching programs that improve instruction. She hosts the Instructional Coaching with Miss B podcast, now nearing 300 episodes, and is the author of Expand Your Coaching Toolbox.

Mentioned in this episode

• Expand Your Coaching Toolbox: 20 Practical Strategies That Improve Teaching and Learning (ASCD/ISTE)
• Chrissy's website: buzzingwithmissb.com
• Instructional Coaching with Miss B podcast

Connect with Casey

• Website: clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: @catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: @catchupwithcasey

Looking for a speaker for your next conference, event, or retreat? Bring Casey to your stage at caseywattscoaching.com.

Meta description: Casey and author Phil Januszewski talk about how high-achieving, impact-driven women can flourish through small daily choices that stay within their control.

What if the happiness you keep putting off until the weekend has been in your hands the whole time?

Casey welcomes back fan favorite Phil Januszewski. Phil taught high school chemistry and physics for 20 years before becoming a full-time speaker, and he's the author of the new book Too Damn Happy: Flourishing in a Tired and Uninspired World. His "let me be clear" statement sets the tone for the conversation: your happiness and ability to flourish is so much in your control, and you don't have to wait for someone else to fix it for you.

If your sense of worth is tied to what you produce, this episode gives you a new way to think about what keeps you going.

In this episode, you'll discover:

1. Why a life without stress only gets you to neutral, and what moves you past it into flourishing
2. How happiness, thriving and flourishing differ, and why flourishing is a skill you can build
3. How your "ers" (baker, connector, giver, upcycler) can give you three-minute wins every day
4. The "leaky tire" view of happiness and why passion for your work needs backup
5. Engines and anchors: who pushes you forward, and who you're an engine for

You'll also hear about the student who skipped Phil's class for weeks because Mr. J was "too happy."

This week's challenge: List your ers. Find the small moments where you can wiggle your toes in the sand and be fully present.

Mentioned in this episode

• Too Damn Happy by Phil Januszewski, available for pre-order and releasing in October: toodamnhappy.com
• Laurie Santos, PhD, on happiness as a leaky tire
• Connect with Phil by searching Phil Januszewski on any platform

Connect with Casey

• Website: clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: instagram.com/catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: youtube.com/@catchupwithcasey

Want Casey to speak at your next event? Visit caseywattscoaching.com.

Do you deflect compliments, feel the urge to repay every kind word ten times over, or keep a gratitude list that reads the same every night? This episode is for you.

Casey sits down with bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and award-winning educator Lainie Rowell. Lainie was in the room when Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, has been called "very gritty" by Angela Duckworth, and proudly owns the title of exceptionally loud clapper. Together, they explore how gratitude helps high-achieving, impact-driven women show up with more clarity and confidence, even when life feels hard.

In this episode, you'll discover:

1. The two-part social science definition of gratitude and what it takes to build a grateful disposition
2. A four-step deep gratitude practice, plus a better way to channel that "I owe you" feeling
3. The "what if" exercise Lainie walks Casey through live, and how it helped Lainie move toward forgiveness
4. The ratio Lainie says could make the world a better place, and why it matters most with the people you're in friction with

Keep a pen nearby. You'll want to try the live exercise along with Casey.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Lainie Rowell's website, including her free gratitude dice printable: lainierowell.com
• Lainie on Instagram: @lainierowell
• Evolving with Gratitude by Lainie Rowell: Amazon
• Bold Gratitude journal by Lainie Rowell
• Dr. Aliza Pressman
• Dr. Andrea Hussong, University of North Carolina

Connect with Casey:

• Website: clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: instagram.com/catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: youtube.com/@catchupwithcasey

Looking for a speaker for your next event? Bring Casey to your stage at caseywattscoaching.com.

My husband came home late from a meeting that, in his words, half of which could have been an email.

Someone showed up late. Tangents were welcomed. The hour on the calendar stretched well past the hour. I have been in that meeting, and I am guessing you have too.

In this episode I share five boundaries I use to get clarity before, during, and after a meeting, including the ones I did not schedule and am not leading.

The five:

1. Set the purpose before the meeting and again at the start
2. Set a time frame of 45 or 50 minutes rather than the default hour
3. Make the start time and the hard stop clear
4. State the intended outcomes so everyone knows what success looks like
5. Close with clarification so the meeting gets real closure

I also share the one question I use to end my PD sessions, coaching calls, and meetings, and why people answer it honestly even after a hard conversation.

For high-achieving, impact-driven women who want their meetings to feel as productive as they are.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Michael Bungay Stanier's question: "What was most useful for you here today?"
• The Craft of Clarity

Connect with me:

• Website: clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: instagram.com/catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: youtube.com/@catchupwithcasey

Leave a review so other clarity-driven leaders can find the show.

Booking a speaker for your next event, conference, or retreat? Start at catchingupwithcasey.com/speaking.

Casey shares the moment her pride finally tumbled and uses it to name something high-achieving, impact-driven women recognize immediately. You can spend years becoming a victim of other people's insecure behaviors, and then quietly become a victim of your own limiting beliefs.

Casey walks through the signs of both, pushes back on all of us with three beliefs about victimhood, and introduces the three kinds of clarity that make confidence possible in the first place.

In this episode:

• The Jenga block moment that shattered Casey's confidence
• Four signs you are a victim of someone else's insecurity at work
• Four ways limiting beliefs keep you second-guessing and saying yes

• What the upcoming book Clear Is the New Confident is really about

Where do you need to create space for confidence?

Connect with Casey:

• Website and book updates: https://clearisthenewconfident.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catchupwithcasey
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@catchupwithcasey

Looking for a dynamic and relatable speaker for your next event, conference, or retreat? Learn more at catchingupwithcasey.com/speaking

You know the question that needs asking. You just don't ask it. Maybe you've been called difficult before, or maybe you're just trying to keep the peace. So the question stays in your head, and the confusion stays in the room.

Casey unpacks why your gut usually knows what to ask before you find the words, and why the clearest person in the room becomes the leader. She shares how to ask the hard question without coming across as aggressive or putting your own safety on the line.

Mentioned in this episode:
The Last 5 Minutes Download —
https://www.catchingupwithcasey.com/forms/2149699738

Book Casey to speak at your next event at www.catchingupwithcasey.com/speaking

Get the Clear is the NEW Confident Newsletter: clearisthenewconfident.com

Victims of Furgency and How to Escape

Furgency: the fake urgency that convinces you your next idea has to happen right now. Casey breaks down where it comes from, the three situations where it shows up most, and the questions that get you out before it burns you out.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Whole Educator podcast and The Resistance Solution by Becca Silver: https://www.thewholeeducator.com/
• "3 Questions to Pressure Test Your Priorities," Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/07/3-questions-to-pressure-test-your-priorities
• Free thought interrupter tool at clearisthenewconfident.com

Looking for a speaker for your next event?
Casey Watts brings clarity and leadership to the stage. Book her at caseywattscoaching.com.

Are You Asking "Why"?

If you're chasing a title, a goal, or a version of yourself right now, this might be the "why" check you need.

I have a friend more disciplined than anyone I know. 5am workouts. A budget she never breaks. Actual willpower against "remind me in 15 minutes."

Recently she mentioned wanting to tone her thighs just a little more. So I asked the question I always ask: "What is it that motivates you to reach that goal?"

She paused. "Huh. That's a good question. I'd have to think about it."

In this episode, I explore the difference between want and need, internal motivation and external motivation, and why so few of us ever stop to ask which one is actually driving us. I share my own story of chasing a doctoral degree for reasons I hadn't gotten honest about, and what it took to finally see them clearly.

🔗 More on the book and community: clearisthenewconfident.com 🔗 Let's connect on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/catchupwithcasey 🔗 Coaching & more: www.catchingupwithcasey.com

#Leadership #LeadershipDevelopment #HighAchievers #LeadershipCoaching

Does training alone make someone a great leader, or is there a deeper shift required? Principal and author Joyce Conley-Hemmings will dive into why mindset is the ultimate determining factor in true leadership development. Discover why skill-building is only half the battle and how cultivating the right perspective transforms management into genuine impact. Learn actionable strategies to unlock your full leadership potential by transforming how you think.

Connect with Joyce

theunspokenmindset.com