Episode Show Notes

Why confidence isn’t just about mindset

You know your stuff. You’re fully qualified. You’ve helped countless people in clinic.
So why does it feel so uncomfortable to talk about your services online?

It’s a common struggle - especially for registered dietitians and healthcare professionals transitioning into entrepreneurship. Many of us assume that if we could just fix our mindset, we’d feel more confident. But as Carah Elizabeth, trauma-informed coach and former psychotherapist, explains in this week’s podcast episode - there’s much more going on beneath the surface.

 

What is unapologetic confidence?

Carah describes unapologetic confidence as a fully embodied state of self-trust - one that isn’t about faking it or forcing it, but about standing in your truth without outsourcing your worth to outside opinions. It’s about showing up in your business as yourself, not a filtered, overpolished version of who you think you “should” be.

And that shift doesn’t start with mindset work alone. It starts in your body.

 

Visibility fears and the nervous system

For many healthcare professionals, the fear of being seen isn’t just about what people will think - it’s about safety. Carah explains that our nervous system is constantly scanning for danger, and if showing up online, selling, or speaking publicly feels threatening (based on past experiences), your body will automatically try to protect you - often by shrinking, hiding, or procrastinating.

Sound familiar?

Maybe you:

• Rewrite the same Instagram caption 12 times
  
  
• Avoid saying anything too opinionated “just in case”
  
  
• Delay launching your service until it’s “perfect”
  
  
• Tell yourself you’re not ready… yet
  
  

These aren’t personality flaws - they’re protection patterns.

 

Common protection patterns in business

Some of the most common ways these nervous system responses show up include:

🔹 Perfectionism

The belief that if you can just get it “perfect,” you’ll avoid criticism or failure.

🔹 People-pleasing

Saying yes (or staying silent) to avoid conflict, rejection or judgment.

🔹 Procrastination

Delaying action not because you’re lazy - but because it feels safer to avoid possible failure altogether.

Each of these behaviours is the nervous system’s way of keeping you safe from perceived threats. But they also keep you small - and disconnected from the people who need your help.

 

So what can you do?

This episode is packed with practical tools to help you build confidence in a more sustainable way - not by pushing through fear, but by working with your nervous system instead of against it.

Some of Carah’s tips include:

• Power posing: physically take up space before you show up online
  
  
• Somatic awareness: notice where fear lives in your body
  
  
• Micro-action steps: break visibility into tiny, manageable wins
  
  
• Regulation practices: walks, breathwork, or sensory grounding
  
  
• Visualisation: mentally rehearse success instead of failure
  
  

Confidence isn’t something you earn once you’re “perfect.”
It’s something you practise - daily - in relationship with your body.

 

Journal prompts to deepen the work

To integrate what you’ve learned, take a few quiet minutes and reflect on:

• When do I notice myself shrinking or self-editing in my business?
  
  
• What does visibility feel like in my body?
  
  
• What would my most confident future self do differently today
  

 

Want to go deeper?

Carah’s free Confidence Reset Guide walks you through a 3-step process to shift your internal state and start showing up with grounded self-trust.

Download the free guide here

 

And if you’re ready to break free from self-doubt, overthinking, and people-pleasing - and finally think like a business owner - come join me inside: 👉 Mindset for Business Success

My on-demand mindset programme for registered healthcare professionals ready to rewire their thoughts, reprogram their nervous systems, and step confidently into business success.

 

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Episode transcription:

Sarah Bushell (00:45):

Welcome along everyone. And this week I'm really excited to talk to Carah Elizabeth, who is actually a clinically trained psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. But she now works as a trauma informed coach with high achieving women. And she teaches them how to regulate their nervous systems so that they can build sustainable businesses without burning out.

 And today we're going to be talking about unapologetic confidence. And I'll let Carah explain what she means by that in a moment. But first of all, welcome Carah. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me today.

 

Carah Elizabeth (01:24):

Thank you so much, Sarah. It's such an honor to be here on your show today.

 

Sarah Bushell (01:27):

Thank you. So let's start with your story, actually, because I think it's really interesting that you trained as a psychotherapist. You've got 20 years of experience under your belt. And then you decided to leave the traditional mental health work and step into entrepreneurship. So I'd love for you to just tell us what the turning point was for you in your journey.

 

 Carah Elizabeth (01:49):

It's a beautiful unfolding, I like to say. You know, I was clinically trained, as you said, as a psychotherapist, and I spent over 20 years working in that field. And I built my practice. I had a private practice with four therapists under me. We were very successful. We had a wait list, and everything looked good on paper, but I didn't feel aligned with that vision anymore. I felt like something was missing. I felt like, what's next?

 And that was really confusing and that was kind of terrifying for me because for me, this was my dream. This is what I worked for. This is what I went to school for. And it just, it confused me and it left me reeling. And so I started diving back into my own personal healing journey of like, what's happening here, which led me into somatic work, which led me into energy work, which led me into my body.

And I realized that I had chosen this career that while was very rewarding and helping people, also mimicked a lot of my own personal trauma experience. It was very restrictive. I could only do certain practices with my clients. I could only work with people in my geographical location. And I knew I was meant to do something bigger. And so I started to explore that, but that really only happened when I really started healing my own nervous system. And then we know what happened in 2020. You know, the pandemic happened, the pandemic hit. It shifted us all online.

Which was such a catalyst moment for me because I was like, I can do this work online. And that was like mind blowing for me. And I was like, I can help people around the world. I can help people in different areas because I can do this work online. And how beautiful is that? And that really helped me shift into coaching because I couldn't do therapy online because I could only do therapy where I was licensed. So I shifted into coaching, which allowed me to incorporate all of my skillsets and really support the masses and support anybody who was meant to hear my voice, my way of doing things, was able to come into my world at that point.

 

Sarah Bushell (03:46):

And that's great. And so that's quite different in the US compared to the UK where you can only help people who live in your state. Is that right?

 

Carah Elizabeth (03:54):

Yes, if you're licensed, if you have a license, can only work with people within the boundaries of your license and you'd have to have a different license in every state.

 

Sarah Bushell (04:06):

Okay. So in order to really help more people and take this wider, you had to move online, which meant leaving your traditional qualifications, I guess, behind in the traditional sense. 

 

Carah Elizabeth (04:18):

Yes, I chose to release my license because I wanted to support my clients using the semantics, using the energy work, the things that weren't quote unquote empirically studied and weren't approved under my licensure. And then yes, to be able to expand who I wanted to support.

 

Sarah Bushell (04:34):

Great. So we are gonna talk today about confidence and in particular, you've got a lovely phrase, unapologetic confidence. So first of all, can you tell us a little bit about what that actually means and why it's important specifically for us as healthcare professionals working in our own businesses?

 

Carah Elizabeth (04:53):

Yes, absolutely. This is my passion is being unapologetically confident. And what this is, it's an embodied state of self-trust that comes from being fully expressed, fully grounded in your truth and who you are and not negotiating your worth for acceptance of outside sources. So it really is you being 100 % authentically you, regardless of what anybody around you thinks or says or believes or whatever you hear on social media or any of that. It's you being you and standing in your truth powerfully.

 

Sarah Bushell (05:25):

Yeah, brilliant. And so why is that so important, do you think, for us as business owners, rather, and maybe all healthcare professionals, but particularly business owners who have to do it all themselves or with a small team, but it really does come down to them.

 

Carah Elizabeth (05:40):

Absolutely. So if we are running, we can run businesses, not authentically ourselves. It happens all day long, every day, every day. But especially as healthcare professionals, our energy is everything. People come to us not just because of what we know, but it's because of who we are. And when we are not being authentically ourselves, they can feel the disconnect and they know. They might not be able to say the words, might not be able to understand what's happening but they know something feels off and they're going to find another provider where that connection feels more close.

And so it really is important for us to be in our power because it's like that old phrase, can't, you know, do what I say, not what I do. It doesn't really work. We have to embody what we're supporting our clients embody to really help them move forward. Otherwise there is this energetic disconnect that they can't really understand what's wrong, but they know something's off.

 

Sarah Bushell (06:38):

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think, I think probably a lot of my listeners and myself included can relate to that in terms of, you know, the stuff that you might put out on social media, you're, we're so almost a bit, what's the word, well, worried about saying something wrong that we might get struck off. So we can come across as being quite clinical, quite specific and not very much of our own selves come through in our content. So this concept is really about allowing yourself to come through and perhaps, you know, share that piece of advice or the tips or whatever it is that you're sharing, but in a way that's true to the way that you want to deliver it rather than what the textbook might say.

 

Carah Elizabeth (07:21):

Absolutely, because that is relating to people. That's what draws people in is that connection, that feeling like you understand them and they understand you. And that means that they can then trust you because they can relate to you. Nothing's worse than seeing, you know, hearing of a therapist who's never been to therapy or a practitioner who's never practiced, you know, been on the other side and received the service, because then you can't relate to the client that you're sitting in front of.

And so really being able to understand and say, I've been there. We're all here in this profession because we've been where our clients are. We've moved through it and now we want to look back and pull people along with us and help them lend a helping hand. And so being relatable is what is so important, especially as we show up on social media.

 

Sarah Bushell (08:10):

Yeah, and would you say that that's the same for, so for example, some of the clinicians that I've worked with probably haven't experienced exactly what their client is going through. I'm thinking, you know, people who perhaps work in cancer services, for example. So how would it be different for them who haven't specifically experienced what their client might be experiencing?

 

Carah Elizabeth (08:34):

Well, I think the most important thing is to be honest and not to say it like I get it because you don't It's being honest, but then it's asking more questions Like what what are you experiencing? What is happening for you? And what kind of support are you seeking? And so it's being inquisitive. It's letting them know I've never been there before I don't know this feels like I know Textbook wise I know clinically what I'm told to do, but tell me about your experience. What's really happening. And that just opens the door for them like, they actually see me and they want to know. And they're not pretending.

 

Sarah Bushell (09:07):

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And it's really about making that person feel seen and heard and understood, isn't it?

 

Carah Elizabeth (09:15):

Absolutely, absolutely.

 

Sarah Bushell (09:17): So I guess one of the things that perhaps a listener could do is if they haven't had firsthand experience of that, is they could really get to know the people who they're trying to attract as clients and understand what's going on for them, understand how their problems that they're experiencing is actually impacting them on their day-to-day life so that they can become just much more understanding and familiar with exactly what's going on for them.

 

Carah Elizabeth (09:45):

Absolutely, and one tool that I've used multiple times throughout my business as I've worked on new programs and new offerings and things like that is market research. It's putting a person out there to people like, hey, I'm working with people with cancer. You use that example. I've never had that. I've never had somebody that experienced that. Any caregivers or any people who are survivors, I'd like to just hop on a free call with you and just ask them questions if you're willing to help me make a more supportive environment for my clients.

 

Sarah Bushell (10:13):

Yes, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I totally agree with you. And I think once you've got that, then you'll find that people or you attract people, you don't have to go looking for clients, they come and come and find you. So let's talk a little bit about confidence in terms of visibility, because I know that's something that a lot of my clients often struggle with, and my colleagues as well, actually.

And it's about that feeling of being nervous, showing up online.  So we've talked a little bit about like what the regulators might think and getting struck off or saying something wrong, but sometimes it's just what will my colleagues think. So how can the unapologetic confidence help them move past that fear, that visibility fear?

 

Carah Elizabeth (10:55):

The first thing I will say and I've done this before myself is remove the people who you're worried about. First of all, if there's people that are potentially going to, you know, judge you or make comments, just remove them. It's amazing how much more confident you become knowing that there's not that fear of that person saying that thing.

But also, you know, really working on steps that we can actually take to feel more confident. Self-trust really is it. So knowing that you know what you're talking about, it doesn't matter what any keyboard warrior has to say on the internet because you know the truth. Like you're trained, this is what you do. Like it doesn't matter what somebody else says. And really trying to release that, that belief that what other people say actually matters.

A couple key things is being your own hype girl. Before you hop on, stand up tall, look yourself in the mirror, tell your, I got this, whatever it has to be. My energy radiates before me, or I attract in what I'm seeing. Hype yourself up. Building that self-trust, building that hype up before I do vocal exercises on YouTube, before I record things, before I hop on calls like this.

Just to help me energetically get in the vibe. But trusting yourself and hyping yourself up are two really powerful tools and they sound like they wouldn't be. And so my clients are always like, that just sounds stupid. And then they come back, it worked. And it's like, yeah, it doesn't have to be this big elaborate thing. 10 minutes before you hop on or 10 minutes before you start recording, do some vocal exercises, flutter your lips, stand up tall, remind yourself that you got this, that you know what's happening.

Because I'll be honest, sometimes I hit record and I'm like, I know nothing. I have no skills. I know nothing. Everything drains out of me. And we all do that. It happens. And it doesn't mean that you actually don't know anything. That's just your nervous system coming in trying to self-protect.

 

Sarah Bushell (12:49):

Yes, absolutely. I remember a few years ago, I worked with a public speaking coach and one of the things she taught me was about power posing. And that's exactly what it is. And she said, you know, take up space. So, you know, put your arms in the air, really like take up that space and then go and do your talk and just see how differently you feel after doing that. And it really does work. It really does work.

 

Carah Elizabeth (13:05)

Yes. Yeah, like dropping your shoulders down and back, opening your chest again, because so much of our posture is self-protecting the heart, and it's just hunched over, and it's a self-protecting, like that fear. And so opening that up, realizing, I got me. I'm not a little kid at the talent show where people laughed and made fun of me anymore.

 

Sarah Bushell (13:38)

Yeah, absolutely. So you just mentioned about the nervous system's role there. So let's just dive into that for a second. So confidence, of course, isn't just mindset, is it? It's also what's going on in your body as well. So could you explain for anybody listening how our physiology actually either supports our confidence or actually sabotages it really so that we can show up? Boldly show up in confidence.

 

Carah Elizabeth (14:04)

Absolutely. So we believe a lot of times we often believe that our thoughts happen before our body reaction. But actually there are more nerves that happen in the body and then send the message up to the mind than there are from the mind to the body. So our body often perceives, is constantly on perceiving for danger, like looking for danger or safety. So perceiving the situation. And if it feels even just like a tickle, of something that feels dangerous from the past, if we have that strong neural pathway from the body to the brain, because we're rooted in fear, based on past experiences, it will shoot that danger message up really quickly, nanoseconds before we could even cognitively understand that. And that's what we have to slow down, is we have to slow down that process of that message from the body to the brain so that we can pause and say, no, I am safe. Like this isn't the same as it was before.

 And so the nervous system is only here. If I say one thing, this is it. The nervous system is only here to keep us safe. It doesn't know the difference between perceived danger and actual danger. We have to support the body in learning, unlearning that everything is dangerous and learning that we are safe, that we got us because those old stories, those old messages from when we were younger, where we needed to self-protect are really strong in some of us, in a lot of us.

And so the more that we can say, hey, I'm actually 43 years old, I'm not five anymore. I got me, I can take care of us. That five-year-old version of self, like, hey, I appreciate that you keeping us safe for so long, but honey, you don't have to work so hard anymore. You can go and play because we're safe here. And having that little internal dialogue of understanding and unpacking those old patterns and those old limiting beliefs and those old behaviors that are so immediate. We have to slow it down and say, but we are grounded. We are safe. We can do it.

 

Sarah Bushell (16:02)

Yeah. Yeah. And I guess the first thing is probably noticing those patterns, isn't it?

 

Carah Elizabeth (16:08)

Awareness is absolutely one. I always say my clients hear it and they probably roll their eyes every time, but when we have awareness, we have the power of choice. Until we have awareness, it's just habit. It just happens automatically. Once we're aware, we can choose. I can either continue this pattern or I can take steps to a new path.

 

Sarah Bushell (16:27)

So once you've identified these patterns, are there any steps that you can take in order to start addressing things and make things different?

 

Carah Elizabeth (16:36)

Yes, so this is what we work on when we're doing the healing in my work with clients is identifying the different layers of these experiences. And so what I would say, the first thing is awareness and start to notice when you notice the pattern come up, pause and see what's going on in your surroundings.

And then pause again, and say, where do I feel this in my body? Am I feeling a tightness in my chest? Am I feeling a tightness in my belly? Am I feeling my shoulders hunch up? Starting to notice these somatic patterns will start to help us identify what's happening. And so when I'm in session with a client and we start to move through this process, my shoulders are up here. Okay, so is this familiar? Yes. When's the earliest time you started feeling this? And we start to kind of go back and explore, because your body really does hold memories.

And a lot of times people go into this feeling or whatever tightness they're feeling, a memory will pop up like I'm 13 years old and I'm on stage. That's random. It's not random. It's because when you were 13 years old and you were on stage and you were nervous or you were afraid, that's where it landed in the body. And so we can start to peel back these layers of memories and these layers of behavioral and somatic patterns in the body. And we can start to heal and release them so that that doesn't have to continue to be the automatic response of the body to brace for danger.

 

Sarah Bushell (17:59)

Yeah, brilliant. And if there is something that you've identified, is it a matter of rewriting the story and doing something every day in order to reinforce that as the new way of doing things? 

 

Carah Elizabeth (18:12)

Yes it is and it is making that conscious choice every day but sometimes it's just feeling the emotion that you weren't safe to feel at the time. So sometimes in a session or in a moment if you're you know you start crying let yourself express that emotion let it out and notice how you feel because oftentimes it's just an emotion that we weren't safe to process in the moment so it got stored here and we just never went back to it.

 

Sarah Bushell (18:19)

Okay.

 

Carah Elizabeth (18:39)

If we start going back and we start emoting, we start feeling and processing these emotions, then our body can release and soften and we can feel like people often say, I feel like a weight off of my shoulder and I feel, you know, open, I feel free, I feel expansive and how that can be really supportive.

 

Carah Elizabeth (18:58)

So your body will remember the memories before your brain does. So when we release the emotion, it allows the body to soften and to open up. And so this is why a lot of times when people, you know, have an emotion or start crying and after they cry, they're like, I feel so much better. Of course you did. Because that emotion that you didn't feel safe to process in the moment got stored. It didn't go anywhere.

You may have stopped feeling it, but it doesn't mean it went anywhere. It just stored and you numbed out. And so by bringing these emotions to the surface and releasing, it releases energy. It releases flow in the body and it allows us to have capacity to experience more of life.

 

Sarah Bushell (19:41)

Yeah, yeah, brilliant. I love that. So one of the things I see quite a lot actually with my colleagues is, well, either people pleasing or perfectionism or procrastination, which I guess could be a consequence of the perfectionism side of things. I'd love to know how that ties in with these nervous system patterns and if somebody recognises that in themselves, how they can break free from that.

 

Carah Elizabeth (20:07)

So they are all trauma or fear responses. procrastination is avoidance because I don't want to possibly fail, right? People pleasing, I want people to like me. I want that validation. And so that's like a lack of self-trust. And so we do these things in hopes to feel better and hopes to stay safe. And so this really is our nervous system trying to keep us safe. If people like me, I'm safe. If I'm perfect, I'm safe because there's no problems.

 

Sarah Bushell (20:15)

Yeah.

 

Carah Elizabeth (20:33)

If I procrastinate, well, nobody's going to tell me I did it wrong because I just didn't do it. So we're all trying to self-protect. And so once you realize this, OK, this is my pattern. This is how my body is trying to keep me safe, even if it's not actually safe, because in the end, there are consequences to those behaviors, it's familiar. And when our body and our nervous system feels familiar, it knows what to do.

So if I am familiar with procrastination, I'm going to numb out. So I just don't even pay attention to the anxiety that happens or to the disappointment other people have in my life, in how I behaved. I'm just going to numb out. I'm not going to feel it. So your nervous system knows what to do. And that's why they become patterns. And that's what becomes so difficult is we have to step out of the familiar, which feels dangerous. The nervous system thinks it's dangerous. We have to step out of the familiar to create a new pattern and to create a new happen.

But the reality is everything you want, your success, your joy, your love, your relationships is on the other side of familiar because what is familiar to the nervous system has been this chaos or has been this numbness or has been this traumatic experience that we've had. We don't want that anymore. That's not actually safe. So we have to step into the unknown, which is sometimes the most difficult part because it's doing something different.

 

Sarah Bushell (21:57)

Yeah, doing something that feels uncomfortable, but actually the success is really on the other side of that, isn't it? Yeah, brilliant. So I guess when your body is in this sort of survival mode, is it right that your brain really narrows its focus to look, to focus on what are threats, for want of a better word, instead of looking for opportunities? Is that correct?

 

Carah Elizabeth (22:27)

Absolutely, because neuroception, our brain is constantly looking for those dangers. So it can continue the pattern to self-protect. When we're in survival, it's like a gazelle on the Serengeti, right? He's looking for the lion that's about to come and attack. That's what we're thinking. We're anticipating the next attack versus living life and enjoying.

 

Sarah Bushell (22:49)

Yeah, yeah. So if you are in that sort of survival mode, is there a practical thing that someone could do to try and shift out of that? I'm thinking, you know, things that we might find scary as business owners is maybe doing sales calls, maybe, you know, going live on Instagram, that sort of thing. So is there, we've talked about the power poses and things like that. Is there anything that people could do to try and move from that survival feeling into a more regulated state.

 

Carah Elizabeth (23:20)

Absolutely. Now the number one thing that we have to do to support our nervous system is take care of our basic human needs. To get started, if your body isn't nourished, if it's not hydrated, if it's not rested, it will continue to look for safety and survival above thriving and living life. And so really being aware of like, and when I was a therapist and in private practice, I did this, I was wolfing down like, protein bars in between clients. was going straight through, right? When we can stop and pause and start practicing these things, I feel like, let me have an actual meal. Let me have an actual lunch break that gives my brain time to down-regulate itself. The other things that we can really do is practice things that bring us present.

And so, when we're in survival, again, we're looking for threat. We're not paying attention to what's actually around us. We're not living in this moment. We're living in the projection of fear. So taking a walk outside, naming colors that you see, sensations that you feel, feeling your feet on the ground or in the grass, taking some deep breaths, the power pose, those help bring us into this present moment to realize, hey, we're not actually in danger.

Nothing is going to happen if we go live on Instagram and nobody watches. We're practicing those things too. First of all, mental practice will help with those too. I'm going to practice, let me in my mind see myself going live on Instagram or going live, doing any of these things that might be scary to us, showing up in my essence. I'm going imagine this and imagine going well. Our brain will always try to imagine the worst case scenario.

 

If we can start to pivot that neuro pathway into, if this is gonna go well, I know myself, trusting, I know the work that I do. We can start that mental practice and then we can bring it into the physical. We can say it in front of the mirror. We can say it in front of some safe people or some safe colleagues. We can schedule it on our schedule. I'm gonna go live on this day. We can turn on the live. Maybe all you do that first day is turn on the live and turn it right back off to realize that nothing happened. You didn't die because you went live. And we build this up, and this is exposure therapy. This is building up that challenging of those, patterns of limiting beliefs. We're challenging those and realizing, oh, nothing bad actually happens because of this.

 

Sarah Bushell (25:48)

Yeah. Yeah. Brilliant. I love that. So like visualizing it first in your mind and then taking baby steps to just get there eventually. 

 

Carah Elizabeth (25:56)

I like to call these micro action steps. We're taking one action step. It's like a ladder and it builds and it compounds upon itself until you're doing the thing and it's you're like, I can't believe I was ever nervous for this.

 

Sarah Bushell (26:10)

Yeah, absolutely. And when you describe it like that, that feels easy. It feels doable. It feels totally possible, doesn't it?

 

Carah Elizabeth (26:18)

Yes, absolutely. And the thing is we think about these big lofty goals or these big lofty steps and it's like, well, of course I'm here on the ground and I have to reach up to the sky. It's like, no, no, no, we take steps.

 

Sarah Bushell (26:29)

So my final question for you really is, if we've got somebody listening who's been hiding in the background of their business, what's the very first small step that they could take, you know, after they've listened to this episode to start to shift into that more confident version of themselves?

 

Carah Elizabeth (26:46)

I love the exercise and the practice of writing out your ideal day, like your most confident, how does your most, like when you know you've reached that moment, what does that look like for you? Because we wanna have a place that we're moving towards. It's this lofty idea of I wanna be confident. Okay, but what does that actually mean to you? What are you doing? How are you showing up in work? How are you showing up in relationships? How are you showing up for yourself? We want to know like here's where we're going, and we fill in the gap. We see the gaps between where we are and where we're going, and that's where we make those micro action steps to get towards that dream of what you're looking at.

 

Sarah Bushell (27:25)

So your future self really, redefining what your future self looks like

 

Carah Elizabeth (27:27)

Yes. We can take those, we can break it down. We can break it down into those micro action steps.

 

Sarah Bushell (27:35)

Yeah, awesome. That's brilliant. Thank you so much, Carah. So how can people get in touch with you if they want to learn a little bit more about you?

 

Carah Elizabeth (27:43)

Absolutely. I love connecting with people. So my social media accounts, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, those are the easiest ways to reach out, DM me, say hi. It's really me. It's not a bot. It's not another person. It's me responding to everything. And just, yeah, just ask whatever questions you might have. I love to share and to support. And I'm always here to do that for people.

 

Sarah Bushell (27:50)

Yeah. Brilliant, that's great. And I'll make sure that all of those links are in the show notes on YouTube and on podcasts as well so people can click straight through and find you.

 

Carah Elizabeth (28:15)

Absolutely, yes. so I did create a 19-page confidence reset guide, and so it's a three-step process to build confidence, and since we've been talking about all of that, I would love to share that with your audience, and I can send that link through to you as well.

 

Sarah Bushell (28:30)

Yeah, that's absolutely brilliant. I'll make sure that everybody gets that. That's great. Thank you so much. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for your time today. It's been an absolute pleasure to have you on. And I think we've talked about lots of things that everybody will be able to relate to, you know, as business owners.

 

Carah Elizabeth (28:34)

Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you so much. Again, it's an honor just to be here and sharing my passion with you.

 

Sarah Bushell (28:53)

Thanks Carah.