It’s what everyone needs to be in the driver’s seat of life. What is confidence? If you don’t have it, how do you get it? Confidence is a love potion to women. But why is it harder today to meet and connect with women?

David Portney works with people to improve their communication skills and build confidence in various contexts, including job interviewing and public speaking. To help shy guys gain confidence and gently walk through the fear to meet women, David recently published The Shy Guy’s Road Map to Super Confidence With Women.

Listen in as host Lana Walker-Helmuth talks with David Portney about the most common problems men face when meeting and dating women in a society where the rules have changed!

David Portney is a speaker, trainer, author and coach in Redondo Beach, California. With deep management experience, David conducts presentation and communication skills workshops, public speaking seminars, and estate planning and asset protection financial seminars. He is the author and producer of several CDs and books, including The Secret of How to Ace Any Job Interview — with Confidence! Inside Tips on Terrific Resumes, Interviews, and How to Eliminate Nervousness Forever! and the recently published book Super Confidence With Women.

Learn about Super Confidence with Women at www.confidencenow.com.

Visit David’s business site at www.davidportney.com.

Could self-defeating beliefs and behaviors be holding you back from creating the life you want?

Sometimes we hold onto hurtful messages that tell us we’re not smart, capable, attractive, deserving, etc., etc. If we heard those things as kids, we didn’t have the maturity or the insight to know that those things might not be true — because big people tell you how things really are, right? So we internalize those messages, and even as adults we can pull them out and keep believing them. “If you do that, you ought to get a second opinion!” says Cynthia McKenna, a licensed professional counselor.

In today’s show, host Lana Walker-Helmuth and guest Cynthia McKenna talk about learning to accept ourselves — and what happens when we don’t.

(16.5 minutes)

Cynthia McKenna is a National Board Certified Counselor, a Licensed Professional Counselor and an Episcopal priest. She has more than 12 years of experience helping people create the lives they really want. The focus of her work is to help people find ways to heal their relationships, reduce stress, and create more joy and peace in daily life. She offers counseling for couples and individuals, as well as personal-growth coaching. Cynthia is also a trauma specialist, working with adults whose lives have been changed by sexual assault or sexual abuse. She maintains a private practice in the Texas Hill Country.

Visit www.cynthiamckennacounseling.com and www.counseling.typepad.com.

For example, you may consciously want to lose 25 pounds, but your subconscious may contain a belief that being slim is somehow a threat. Or maybe you want to make $150,000 per year, but a subconscious belief says that well-to-do people are bad. In both cases, it will be extremely difficult to lose the weight and make the money you want.

Listen in as host Lana Walker-Helmuth explores this intriguing subject with Susan Kimball, a psychotherapist who helps clients discover the subconscious beliefs that may be stopping them from creating the life they want.

Full interview

You can also listen to the interview in four parts.
Part 1: Becoming Aware of Subconscious Beliefs
Part 2: Clearing Fears, Phobias, Self-Limiting Beliefs
Part 3: Communicating With the Subconscious
Part 4: Using NET with Coaching

Susan Kimball is a licensed clinical social worker, certified Gestalt therapist and certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner (NET) in Lake Park, Florida. She specializes in working with women to create the life of their dreams. “You can have the life of your dreams,” Susan says. “But first you must be willing to let go of old patterns of thinking and ways of doing things that keep you stuck.”

Visit http://susankimball.net.

Part 2: Clearing Fears, Phobias, Self-Limiting Beliefs

Part 3: Communicating With the Subconscious

Part 4: Using NET with Coaching

Back to Clearing Self-Limiting Beliefs

Let’s get down to the bottom line: Why do we get stuck? No matter what we do, why does it seem we can’t move forward or get what we want? In this four-part interview, Maryam and Lana discuss the most common reasons and powerful solutions.

Part 1: Two Huge Reasons Why We Get Stuck

Part 2: You Have All the Resources You’ll Ever Need

Part 3: The Problems of Living in Modern Society

Part 4: Overcommitment!

Energy coach Maryam Webster holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology. She is a Master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is certified in several energy psychology techniques, which she uses in her coaching practice to help people remove unwanted behaviors blocking their success. She is currently assisting professional women to transition powerfully and gracefully to higher levels, while maintaining inner peace, proper boundaries and balance. Visit www.maryamwebster.com.

Maryam is also Director of The Certified Energy Coach Program. Learn more about the training program.

Part 2: You Have All The Resources You’ll Ever Need