The Confidence Lounge: Conversations that fuel your ambition & move your career forward.

Ever feel like you’re one mistake away from being “found out”? Like somehow, you’ve fooled everyone into thinking you’re smarter, more capable, or more confident than you actually are?

If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

Because today, I’m pulling back the curtain on something way too many high-achieving women silently struggle with & that is, Imposter Syndrome.

What’s Covered in This Episode:

• • The real reason high-achieving women secretly struggle with self-doubt even when they’re killing it on paper
  • What Imposter Syndrome really is and why it has nothing to do with how capable you are
  • The hidden cost of imposter syndrome on your energy, leadership, and self-trust
  • How perfectionism, overthinking, and performance mode keep you stuck
  • Five ways imposter syndrome directly erodes your confidence
  • How to stop dismissing your wins and start actually owning your success
  • Science-backed shifts to rewire your brain and build bold confidence
  • 4 slightly “crazy,” real-world strategies my clients use to kick imposter syndrome to the curb

GET EVEN MORE TIPS TO OVERCOME IMPOSTER SYNDROME & OVERTHINKING

• LISTEN TO: 4 Crazy Ideas to Help You Overcome Imposter Syndrome
  
• LISTEN TO: Stuck in an Overthinking Spiral? Here’s How to Stop...

Something transformational happened at an event I hosted over the weekend and I couldn’t not talk about it.

What unfolded in that room was nothing short of remarkable. I witnessed women’s confidence and success expand right before my eyes — all because of one bold move they made.

And I’m breaking this underrated success hack down for you in today’s episode.

Inside this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on:

The success shortcut no one talks about

What went down behind the scenes at the event

Why this kind of room will collapse time on your career goals

The one move you can make right now that’ll instantly uplevel your career confidence & success

Stop waiting. Start putting yourself in rooms that reflects your future.

Tap in — you might just feel like you were in the room too.

LINKS:

Listen to my interview on the Beyond Beauty Podcast to learn more about why I do what I do - LISTEN HERE

Connect with me on LinkedIn and ask me for career advice - CONNECT WITH ME HERE

You’ve heard it before - your network is your net worth. But what if the thought of networking makes you want to hide behind your phone or run for the exit?

Today, I’m sharing 3 powerful tips to help you walk into any room with confidence, connect with intention, and actually enjoy the process (yes, it’s possible!).

Plus, I’m breaking down the top 5 mistakes women make when networking and how to avoid them.

Hit play to learn how to:

✅ Set a powerful energy intention so you show up magnetic & memorable

✅ Clarify your desired outcome so every conversation is purposeful

✅ Perfect your pitch so you feel confident when someone asks, “What do you do?”

Because when you work your network with confidence, you’re not just attending an event - you’re building your net worth.

LINKS:

Ask me questions about this episode by sending me a message on LinkedIn - Connect With Me HERE

Special Edition Episode: Navigating IVF While Holding It All Together at Work

Mother’s Day can be a tender time for women quietly navigating the IVF journey while juggling demanding careers. It’s a season where ambition and motherhood can feel worlds apart and yet, so many women are holding it all together while their hearts are breaking behind the scenes.

This special edition episode was created because I know how much your career can suffer when you’re silently struggling with infertility and conception.

It was on my heart to have this conversation with IVF coach Kristin Dillensnyder, so you don’t have to go through it alone.

Together, we’re diving into:

💛 How to stay grounded when IVF shakes your confidence and identity

💛 What it really means to balance work and treatment without burning out

💛 Practical ways to advocate for yourself at work without oversharing

💛 The emotional toll of IVF and how to protect your energy

💛 Powerful mindset shifts to keep hope alive—even when the outcome is uncertain

If you’re holding down a career, showing up to meetings, and trying to keep it all together while navigating IVF, this episode is for you.

You don’t have to choose between ambition and motherhood.

You don’t have to carry this alone.

Tune in now and let this be a soft place to land.

LINKS:

Connect with Kristin On Instagram

Visit Kristin's Website

Get Kristin's Free Gift - 25 Power Phrases

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Let me ask you something: Have you ever had the title but still felt like people weren’t really seeing you as a leader?

Like you had to prove yourself again and again, even though your résumé speaks for itself?

You’re not alone.

This episode was inspired by a conversation in session with one of my powerhouse C Suite clients who told me point-blank: “I don’t think I have executive presence.”

Even with the job title at the top of the org chart, she still felt like something was missing.

Because executive presence isn’t about what you do.

It’s about how you do it.

It’s not about your title - it’s about the energy you bring into every room you walk into.

And today, I’m pulling back the curtain on the 5 subtle yet powerful things women with executive presence DO NOT do.

These 5 shifts will change how you’re seen, heard, and respected - instantly.

🔥 Think:

→ From overthinking every word to speaking with bold clarity.

→ From being overlooked to owning every room you enter.

→ From being the “doer” behind the scenes to being seen as the leader in front.

→ From doubting your voice to leading with conviction and ease.

→ From waiting for permission to walking in powerfully and unapologetically.

These are the moves that build trust, elevate authority, and fast-track promotions.

I’m dropping hot takes, client transformations, and real-world tips you can use today to shift your energy, your leadership, and your presence.

If you're ready to be seen as the leader you are (not just the one who gets it all done), this one’s for you.

🎧 Tune in now - your executive glow-up starts here.

LINKS:

Connect with me on LinkedIn HERE

Get my freebie "10 habits women with high career confidence do daily" HERE

Nobody really prepares you for what it’s like to become a manager - the emotional shifts, the pressure to perform, the unspoken expectations.

In this powerful conversation, I am interviewing life & leadership coach Kim Nicol to uncover what it actually takes to rise in your career and lead with confidence.

We dive into:

💼 Why support is essential as you move into management

🧠 How to handle imposter syndrome (without spiraling)

🔥 The truth about hard conversations and how to have them with confidence

🚩 The honest truth about how nobody knows what they are doing when they get started

✨ And the mindset shifts you need to go from overwhelmed to grounded

This episode is your permission slip to stop pretending you“should already know how to lead” and start getting the tools and support you actually need to thrive.

🎧 Tune in now — your next level of leadership starts here.

Resources to Go Deeper with Kim:

Visit Kim's Website: ⁠kimnicol.com⁠

Connect With Kim on LinkedIn: ⁠linkedin.com/in/kimnicol⁠

Grab Kim’s Free CommunicationStrategy: ⁠maven.com/kimnicol/communication-strategies⁠

Listen to Kim’s Podcast: ⁠The New Manager Podcast⁠

Today, we’re switching things up inside of the The Confidence Lounge and I’m letting you hear me on the other side of the mic.

I had the best time being interviewed by my girl Michelle Gauthier on her amazing podcast, The Overwhelmed Working Woman Podcast — and the convo was so powerful, I had to bring it here too.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in overthinking, trapped in perfectionism, or spiraling in self-doubt — this one's for you.

Michelle could not have picked a better name for our episode: “Why Overthinking and Perfectionism Are Destroying Your Confidence — and What To Do About It”

It’s a short, high-impact episode filled with mindset shifts, confidence boosters, and tangible takeaways to help you stop second-guessing and start trusting yourself fully.

In our conversation, we talk about:

• Why overthinking is killing your confidence (and how to stop)

• The sneaky way perfectionism keeps you stuck

• The truth about people pleasing and how it drains your time + energy

• Simple mindset shifts to break free from indecision

• How to build self-trust, even when you're second-guessing everything

• What it really takes to feel confident (spoiler: it's not being perfect)

Oh — and if you loved Michelle’s episode that dropped here inside The Confidence Lounge last month (March 14!), you’re going to have so much fun hearing us flip the script.

Let this episode be your permission slip to stop overanalyzing and start owning it.

🎧 Tune in now & DM me your favorite takeaway — I cannot wait to hear what lands for you!

PS: Wanna hear more of me on other people’s podcasts?
I’m on a podcast tour right now and the interviews have been fire. I'd be happy to share these interviews if that would be fun for you to hear!

So if you want more episodes like this — where I get real from the other side of the mic, go deep, and share the behind-the-scenes of confidence work — tell me!

This podcast is for YOU, so tell me what you want more of.

And if this episode spoke to you:

• Drop a 5-star rating and review (seriously, it helps so much!)

• Let me know your biggest takeaway

• And share it with a friend who needs to hear this too

Let’s keep growing, glowing, and showing up boldly — together.

If making decisions feels draining, scary, or like you need to consult 3 friends and a spreadsheet…this episode is for you.

📊 We as women make upwards of 35,000 decisions per day.

😵‍💫 And those of us stuck in our heads overthink 1 in 5 of them.

That’s 7,000 decisions a day wasted on overthinking.

It’s exhausting.

And it’s keeping you stuck.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

What if you never second-guessed yourself again?

What if every decision (big or small) felt clean, clear, and grounded?

Not rushed. Not emotional. Not fear-based.

Just powerful.

(PS: This is exactly what I’ll teach you inside my upcoming workshop: How To Stop Overthinking & Start Making Decisions. Tap HERE to join us)

That is what we are covering today.

In this episode, we are talking about:

✔️Why we as women struggle with decision making and what this struggle is costing us

✔️ The 4 hidden mistakes you're making when making decisions (and how they’re secretly slowing you down)

✔️ How decision making fatigue is sabotaging your success — and the 8 signs you’re living inside it

✔️ Real-life examples of what it looks like to live in analysis paralysis (and how to get out)

✔️ A powerful in-the-moment exercise to break free from the spin and get back into action so you can start making decisions in 5 minutes or less

And here’s the thing…

Decisive women aren’t born with some magical gift.

They build it.

🖤 They trust themselves.

🖤 They make aligned decisions fast.

🖤 They don’t crowdsource their clarity.

🖤 They know when it’s fear vs. when it’s their intuition.

🖤 And they don’t spend hours overthinking what they said in a meeting.

This is what I want for you.

You don’t need more time.

You need the tools to trust yourself.

And that starts inside this episode and we will take it to the next level inside the workshop.

🎟️Claim your seat now for “How to Stop Overthinking & Start Making Decisions" Workshop - because every second you spend spinning in indecision is a second of your life you’ll never get back.

This is your moment to break the cycle — and you can do it in 2 hours.

Let’s go.

GET YOUR WORKSHOP TICKETS HERE

So many women come to me saying things like: “I know I need a change…but I’ve worked too hard to get here.” or “I’ve built this career, this title, this lifestyle - how could I possibly walk away?”

If that’s you, this episode is your permission slip.

Jackie de Crinis spent decades at the top as executive in the entertainment industry, making lots of $$$, flying first class, living the dream by every external standard.

And then…she walked away from it ALL.

Not because she failed, but because she evolved.

Today, she’s a life coach living her best life on Maui and what she shares in this conversation will inspire you to trust your own desire for change, no matter how successful your past has been.

In this wisdom-packed conversation we are talking about:

✨ Walking away from a high-status, high-paying career to start over

✨ The mindset shifts required to redefine success & self-worth

✨ How to overcome the fear of losing security, status, and external validation

✨ Her advice for anyone ready to make a bold career pivot

And of course, we sprinkle in some classic LA vibes - imagine two women gossiping about their favorite movie star sightings, laughing about life in the City of Angels, and diving deep into what it really takes to reinvent your life and career.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in a career that no longer lights you up but fear taking the leap - this episode is for YOU.

By the end, you’ll feel empowered to trust the nudge, break free from the golden handcuffs, and confidently chase a life that actually lights your soul on fire.

Let’s take a powerful step today to redefine success - on your terms.

LINKS:

Visit Jackie's Website

Buy Jackie's Book

Listen To Jackie's Podcast The Overthinkers Guide To Joy

(Bonus points for listening to my episode on Jackie's podcast - tap here to tune in now)

Connect with Jackie on LinkedIn

Have you ever spent hours, days even years agonizing over adecision, only to second-guess yourself the second after you make it?

👉 You keep asking for advice, hoping someone else will tell you the “right” thing to do.

👉You scroll social media, looking for a sign.

👉 You Google things like “how to know if I made the right decision” or “how to trust myself more.”

You call it researching or being thoughtful.

But deep down, you know it’s spiraling.

(PS: If you know this is you and you want to learn how tostop the spiral, you have to join my upcoming workshop on 4/19 – learn morehere: https://www.soulmakeup.com/offers/znwV6F2s)

If this is sounding familiar - You’re caught in what I call the Overthinking Spiral.

Overthinking is not a personality trait.

It’s not being “detail-oriented.”

It’s not helping you feel more in control.

It’s a habit rooted in self doubt.

And the longer you stay in the overthinking spiral, the more you start to:

💔 Feel disconnected from your own inner voice

💔 Burn out from emotional exhaustion

💔 Lose confidence in your ability to lead, decide, and trust yourself

In this episode, I’m breaking down:

🎯 What overthinking really is and why so many high-achieving struggle with this

⚡ The clear signs you're stuck in an overthinking spiral

🧠The long-term effects on your confidence, clarity, and nervous system

🚫And the #1 thing you have to stop doing if you want to reclaim peace of mind and power

Because here's the truth:

👉 Thinking more doesn’t lead to clarity. Trusting yourself does.

If your brain won’t shut off, if you feel stuck in a cycleof second-guessing, and if you’re ready to stop living in your head - this episode is exactly what you need right now.

🎧 Tune in now to get out of your head and back into your life.

And, to get dedicated support to break the habit of overthinking for good, join us on 4/19 for the "Stop Overthinking & Start Making Decisions Like A Leader" Workshop.

Grab your tickets HERE.