Let's Talk About Confidence
Let's Talk About Confidence examines the one capability that determines whether you'll attempt what matters most—and whether you'll persist when it gets hard. Not a personality trait. Not positive thinking. A learnable behaviour built through repetition, pressure, and consequence.
Confidence isn't something you're born with—it's something you build through boring repetition, sustained pressure, and real-world consequences.
Hosted by John M Walsh, this podcast explores how actual confidence develops in adults who've been tested. From founders who've rebuilt after failure, to leaders managing high-stakes decisions, to professionals who've had to perform without feeling ready.
These aren't motivational stories. They're honest conversations about:
- How confidence is built (the unglamorous truth)
- How it's lost (and what that reveals)
- How it's rebuilt (often stronger than before)
- How it shows up in high-pressure situations
Each episode examines confidence as an integrated adult skill—through the lens of performance, leadership, persuasion, credibility, competence, and reinvention.
For anyone interested in the behavioural reality of confidence, not the highlight reels.
For professionals, leaders, and anyone building something significant who knows confidence is the bottleneck—but wants the unglamorous truth about how it's actually developed, not another pep talk.
Let's Talk About Confidence
Latest Episodes
You’re Capable of More: What’s Really Stopping You?
You can feel it, can’t you? A next step you keep circling, a version of your life you sense is possible, and a quiet drag that pulls you back to the safe middle. We get specific about what that drag really is, and why most people spend years fi...
What If Nervousness Is Proof You Care
Nerves have a way of arriving like a storm, a meeting turns your way, a hard email lands, a conversation gets serious, and you are already reacting before you realise you have a choice. We built this short, practical guide around one deceptivel...
Success Doesn't Remove Self-Doubt
Watching someone build confidence in real time is far more interesting than hearing slogans about “believing in yourself”. I sit down with Stuart Cuzner, now a partner at Menzies, a top 20 UK accountancy firm, to trace the long, quiet path from...
The Bit Where You Want To Quit
The most dangerous moment in any change is rarely the crisis. It’s the quiet Tuesday when nothing is obviously getting better and you start to wonder if you’re wasting your time. We’re near the end of Season 3 of Nervous Not Broken, so I want t...
The People Around You Shape More Than You Think
A terminal diagnosis changes the way you hear the word “confidence”. When Ron Cox joined us, he brought the headline results (helping turn a $2.5m deficit into a business generating $1m a day) but he also brought the human story behind them: ho...
Fan Mail
Hi there I just wanted to say thank you for your podcast yesterday Dallas is my daughter and was so super proud of her,she would never have been able to that even a year ago so thankyou so much for allowing her to tell her story,she is such a brave young lady and gone through so much and it was so nice to hear the confidence he showed, kind Regards Lisa Mathews.
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