143. How Confidence is Actually Built

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of helping clients build confidence by trusting themselves amidst uncertainty, rather than over-holding their emotions.

Your clients don't need you to make everything feel better. They need you to help them trust themselves while feeling uncertain. This is the line between emotional over-holding and confidence building. It's subtle. And if you're a coach who cares deeply about your clients, you've probably crossed it without realizing. Emotional over-holding looks like carrying more of the emotional weight than the client needs. It looks like reassuring excessively, pre-processing their feelings before a s...

People in this episode

Host: Kelsa Dickey

Topics covered

• confidence building
• emotional support
• coaching techniques
• client trust
• uncertainty management

Keywords

• confidence
• coaching
• emotional over-holding
• client support
• trust
• uncertainty

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