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:
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.
John is a behavioural change consultant who works across industries with teams and individuals to support them in getting to High Performance. He has worked across the globe with over 180 organisations and 34,000 people. He is a qualified adult teacher, Master Practitioner in NLP and a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist. He is the author of 4 books on confidence and the host of this podcast. He lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife and cocker spaniel.
Adam Wright founder of The Barn Gym. A group of 5 gyms spread around Cambridgeshire and one in the Republic of Ireland. Founded the group with his own savings on the family farm in 2020, one month later Covid-19 struck and shutdown, nervous times but, Adam kept his confidence and kept doing the things he knew he needed to do to keep the company moving. Five years later, five gyms and almost 1000 members.