When you understand and feel the effects of ’unsquashed self belief’, you will experience more joy, impact and growth - your host Trisha Lewis speaks from experience. Unsquashing is the antidote to irrational dips of confidence and the self doubt traps so easlily fallen into if you are self squashing! This podcast explores the fears, illusions and baggage that hold you back from taking up opportunities and generally showing up and being heard. Trisha Lewis has developed tools for this variant of impostor syndrome that she calls ’self squashing’. She is the author of the book aimed at entrepreneurs and solo business owners - ’The Mystery of the Squashed Self’ - and her TEDx talk is ’Beware the self squashing prophecy’. After an ’interesting’ personal life and a portfolio career as an actor, mentor, faciliator and speaker - she set up her communication and confidence coaching business at the tender age of 60 - a brave move that made her confront impostor syndrome and confidence head on! Since then Trisha has worked with business owners, employees, teams and leaders - and had a ton of enlightening conversations with her network of fascinating connections including her podcast guests. She is a lifetime learner - never stops activating one of her key unsquashing tools - ’The Detective Mindset’. Whether you are a student, employee or freelancer - human in other words - subscribe to these fortnightly episodes to explore the stories that will resonate and the realistic action steps that will fuel your self belief, communication skills and motivation.