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
The Invisible Child In All Of Us: How Confidence Begins
The child who sits quietly and hopes not to be noticed is often the child who needs the most care. I’m joined by educator and author Bridget Kengler, who spent her early school years feeling invisible, then walked into her own classroom and mad...
The Mask We Wear
Three words can make capable people do strange things: “I don’t know”. I’ve seen someone brilliant sit on a solvable problem for weeks, not because they lacked skill, but because admitting uncertainty felt worse than the problem itself. That mo...
What If You’re Not Anxious At All?
One small word can quietly decide which rooms you enter and which chances you never take. We start with a common line many people say before a work social or a big meeting: “I can’t, I get really anxious in big groups.” Then we slow it down and...
Why Groups Feel Scary And How To Make Them Easier
You know that moment you walk into a crowded room and instantly forget what to do with your hands? Your heart kicks up, your brain starts narrating your every move, and it feels like everyone has noticed you arriving alone. I want to dismantle ...
Confidence Comes After You Speak, Not Before
Your body knows exactly when the stakes rise. The heart speeds up, the mouth dries out, the mind starts writing escape plans and suddenly all your competence is trapped behind a nervous system alarm. That’s where Helen von Dadelszen lives profe...
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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