In this episode of Bold Steps with Sarah, holistic business coach and mentor Sarah Martinez gets into one of the most quietly exhausting things so many of us carry around without even naming it. Self-doubt. Not the loud, dramatic kind. The slow, creeping kind that builds up over years of being told to be smaller, quieter, more agreeable. The kind that makes you redesign your offer three times in one year and still feel like something is off.

This episode is about what actually happens when you stop trusting yourself, why it is not your fault that you did, and the very practical, very unsexy work of building that trust back. One small promise at a time.

Sarah shares the moment she was sitting at her desk looking at yet another version of her website and felt absolutely nothing. No spark, no excitement. Just a hollow feeling. And how that moment became the turning point that brought her back to her own voice. From there, she goes into the science behind intuition, what Brené Brown's marble jar has to do with your business decisions, and why the certainty you are waiting for is never going to show up before you take action. It only comes because of it.

If you have ever over-researched a decision you already knew the answer to, or kept changing your offer because nothing felt quite right, or said yes to a client that felt wrong because you were scared nothing better was coming, this one is for you.

IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 — Why losing self-trust is not a personal failure and how it happens to everyone

03:00 — Sarah's story: redesigning her whole business three times and what it cost her

08:00 — What self-doubt actually does to your brain, your decisions, and your business

14:00 — Why it is not your fault: the conditioning that taught you to look outward for approval

20:00 — The 3 Bold Steps to rebuild self-trust starting today

28:00 — How lost self-trust shows up in business, parenting, and relationships

32:00 — The Einstein quote that says everything about how we were taught to ignore our intuition

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Song by: St. Finnikin