What would change if you trusted yourself enough to make adecision without needing everyone else to agree?

In Season 2, Episode 8 of Kallaborate: Where Joy BecomesYour Foundation, Francene Treasure explores what self-trust really looks like after years of second-guessing yourself, asking for permission, and letting other people’s opinions carry more weight than your own.

For much of her life, Francene gathered advice, weighedeveryone else’s perspective and often let someone else have the final say, even when she already knew what she wanted. Over time, she began recognizing the difference between asking for information and asking for permission.

That difference became especially clear when she decided tolaunch Kallaborate. She did not feel completely confident. She did not know exactly how everything would work. She simply stopped requiring certainty before allowing herself to choose.

This episode explores self-trust, confidence, decision-making, second-guessing yourself, people pleasing, fear of failure,trusting your own voice, and learning to make choices without needing approval.

Because trusting yourself does not mean believing you willalways be right.

• It means knowing you can learn if you are wrong.

• It means allowing other people’s opinions to be information without turning them into instructions.

• It means changing your mind when you learn something new.

• And sometimes, it simply means saying: This is what I know today.

You do not need to stop listening to other people. You just have to stop being the one person whose opinion younever ask. Self-trust is not certainty. Sometimes it is taking the next step while you are still scared, still learning, and still figuring things out. And maybe the deepest kind of self-trust is knowing that whatever happens next… you will stay with yourself.

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Just their name… or one sentence about who they are to you.

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