What if the very thing you keep waiting to receive from someone else is the thing you have not yet learned how to give yourself?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks opens up a deeply honest conversation about giving, receiving, self-trust, self-respect, love, and the mirror that reveals what we are truly longing for. She speaks to the woman who has been looking for clarity, validation, peace, love, confidence, or direction, only to realize the deeper question may not be, “Why am I not receiving this?” but, “Where have I stopped giving this to myself?”

Rachel unpacks why so many of us struggle to fully receive what we say we want, especially when we have not yet built the inner foundation to recognize it, hold it, or believe we are worthy of it. Through personal reflection and Matthew 22:39, she invites you to look at the second half of the command to love your neighbor as yourself and ask what your relationship with yourself is teaching every other relationship in your life.

This episode is not about blaming yourself or pretending you do not need love, support, connection, or community. It is about telling the truth about where you may be withholding trust, respect, grace, forgiveness, or love from yourself while searching for it everywhere else. It is about coming back to the mirror, noticing what keeps coming up, and allowing God to reveal what needs your attention now.

What You’ll Hear:

• Why it can be hard to receive what you have not learned to give yourself
• How self-respect, self-trust, and self-love shape the way you show up in every relationship
• Why confidence is not where the journey starts, but the result of what you practice
• How broken promises to yourself quietly weaken self-trust and confidence over time
• What Matthew 22:39 reveals about loving others from a place of stewardship, not self-abandonment
• Why the thing you are craving may be pointing you toward the deeper work God is inviting you into
• A reflection to help you ask where you may be withholding the very thing you keep waiting to receive

Scripture for the Soul:

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” — Matthew 22:39

Key Quotes:

“Sometimes the thing that we keep looking for outside of ourselves is the very thing we haven’t learned yet to give ourselves.”

“Confidence isn’t where it starts. Confidence is a result.”

“Confidence is built every time you keep a promise to yourself.”

“Sometimes we’re asking God for the whole staircase when He’s asking us to take the next step.”

“Everything we desire starts within.”

Point to Ponder:

Where am I withholding the very thing I keep asking to receive?

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What if the version of you that got you here is the very version you've already outgrown?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks to the woman who keeps reaching for old versions of herself when life feels uncertain — not because those versions were freer or more aligned, but because they were familiar. She may still be showing up, performing, producing, and carrying everything. But something underneath has started to shift. Something no longer fits the way it used to. And the version of herself she keeps trying to get back to may be the very one she's been called to release.

Rachel shares what it looks like when the survival version of yourself becomes your default, why staying in that version can feel like strength when it's actually fear, and how the grief of outgrowing who you had to be is a real and holy part of becoming who God is forming you to become. This episode is a faith-rooted, honest conversation about identity, surrender, and what it means to let go of the version that got you here so the woman you're becoming can finally lead.

This episode is not about rejecting your past or forcing instant clarity. It is about telling the truth about what that old version was actually built from, honoring how far she carried you, and asking the harder question: what is it costing you to keep obeying her?

What you'll hear:

• Why we reach for old versions of ourselves when life feels uncertain, and what's really driving that pattern
• How the survival version of you can become your default autoresponder — and why she is not the same thing as strength
• What it means when the version of you that knows how to carry everything starts to feel like it no longer fits
• Why letting go of an old version of yourself is a real form of grief, even when that version was built from pain
• Three anchors for the woman who is ready to stop letting fear drive and start giving the woman she's becoming permission to lead
• How Isaiah 43:18-19 speaks to releasing what's familiar and trusting what God is forming now
• The question to ask when the old version still works but the cost of obeying her keeps growing

Scripture for the Soul:

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing." — Isaiah 43:18-19

Key Quotes:

"Survival is not the same as freedom." — Rachel Brooks

"What if the version of me I keep trying to get back to is the very version I've outgrown?" — Rachel Brooks

"The old version of you did her job. But she may not be the one who gets to lead what comes next." — Rachel Brooks

"I have to let go to grow." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode met you where you are, the I Am Enough Identity Reset is where the honest work begins. Not to fix your whole life. Not to force clarity. Just to pause long enough to name what you've been believing, come back to what's actually true, and remember who you are and whose you are.

Start here: iamrachelbrooks.com/enough

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In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel sits down with Annie Yatch for a raw conversation about over-functioning, burnout, reinvention, receiving, and what happens when the old way of carrying life no longer works. Annie is the CEO of Reinvention XO and creator of The Authority Shift. As a former counterterrorism analyst turned elite performance coach, Annie helps high-performing leaders stop carrying it all, release the internal patterns that cap their success, and lead from deeper alignment, authority, and truth.

Together, Rachel and Annie talk about why so many high-capacity women feel exhausted even after trying all the strategies, routines, masterminds, and productivity hacks. This conversation goes deeper than surface-level burnout and into the patterns, beliefs, and identities that keep women carrying more than they were ever meant to hold.

What You’ll Hear:

• Why burnout is often about more than working too hard
• How over-functioning can show up in leadership, relationships, business, and identity
• Why grief and life transitions can force a deeper reinvention
• What it means to stop building from pressure, performance, and survival
• How discernment helps you choose the right support, strategies, and next steps

Scripture for the Soul

"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind." — Ecclesiastes 1:14

Key Quotes

"Most of us think we're burned out because we work too hard. But we're actually burned out because we're leading from our trauma, not from our true authority." — Annie Yatch

"Where there is suffering, there is a lie in your subconscious holding you back from your next great thing." — Annie Yatch "You can feel the feels. But you have to get up." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

The I Am… Enough Identity Reset is free. Ten minutes. For the woman who feels lost, exhausted, or disconnected from who she is. Start here: iamrachelbrooks.com/enough

If this conversation made you curious about supporting your body, energy, metabolism, and stress response as you rebuild, explore Beneve: https://iamrachelbrooks.com/beneve

Connect with Annie Yatch

Resources: reinventionxo.com/resources

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Website: iamrachelbrooks.com