Claiming Your Confidence

The Conscious Consultant Hour

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is joined by award winning speaker, author and confidence expert, Karol Ward, LCSW.

As a confidence-building coach, and trained therapist, Karol is committed to helping others find their inner confidence. Using a powerful body-mind approach, Karol brings psychological insight to her work as a coach and speaker. With her warm, conversational style, she is able to help audiences understand why they do what they do and then gives them the concrete tools they need to make changes.

Karol has a Masters in Clinical Social Work and a BA in Psychology and Communication. She is the author of Worried Sick: Break Free from Chronic Worry To Achieve Mental and Physical Health and Find Your Inner Voice: Using Instinct and Intuition Through the Body-Mind Connection.

Karol has appeared as psychological, confidence and communication expert on CNN, The Wall Street Journal Live, NBC, ABC, Fox News along with numerous podcasts and radio programs. She is regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal and has contributed to such media outlets as Oprah.com, The Independent, Cosmopolitan, Women's Day, First for Women, Glamour.com, The New York Daily News, Spirituality & Health, Yoga Journal, FoxNews.com and Family Circle among others.

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Show Notes

Segment 1

Sam begins the show reading a section from his book Everyday Awakening. He talks about the archetypal conscientious person who’s keenly aware and converts to losing trust in themselves. Sam discusses the ways in which we can begin to trust ourselves and acknowledge our victories. He segues the conversation to introducing his guest Karol Ward. Ward is a licensed clinical social worker. She is also a confidence building coach. Ward’s mission is to help others find their inner confidence. Ward begins to talk about her background and how she got involved in social psychology. She talked about moving around a lot as a kid due to military parents. Ward found that she was very observant and was always fascinated by people and their behaviors.

Segment 2

Sam and Ward begin to discuss the ways in which people are struggling with reentering the world post pandemic. Ward talks about seeing more public meltdowns over miniscule concerns. She says people are more sensitive now. Sam and Ward discuss how stress affects a person’s confidence. Ward references Sam’s book, Everyday Awakening, discussing how people have fallen out of alignment with themselves and could be affecting the way they make their choices.

Segment 3

Sam and Ward discuss the importance of understanding what you need. Ward talks about those who lose their confidence either need to know how something happened or the need to know what to do. Ward explains those who need to do tend to have something in their way. Those who need to know why something happened usually have an emotional psychological block. Sam and Ward begin to discuss practices that could relieve some of the stress. Ward mentions breathing practices or physical activities. Before the break Sam and Ward discuss those who are dealing with loss and grief. Ward talks about the benefits of finding someone to talk to and hearing others shared experiences.

Segment 4

In the last segment, Sam and Ward discuss how to become intune with what’s going on with your body. Ward mentions her book, Find Your Inner Voice, where she talks about an exercise that helps you sort out the good and bad feelings in your body. Towards the end of the show Sam and Ward talk about the biggest challenge people can be facing in today's climate. Ward says reconnecting to the world can be difficult. She says to be mindful of your reactions and know that people are hypersensitive right now.

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