Now in Season 3
The Self Trust
Solution Podcast
A Podcast for Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders
What if trusting yourself wasn't just part of success β but the strategy that makes everything else work? Cut through noise, overthinking, and self-doubt so you can make clear decisions, take aligned action, and follow through with confidence.
Recent Episodes
Real vs Toxic Positivity
The version of positivity you've been resisting isn't real positivity. It's avoidance with better marketing, and your nervous system has known the difference the whole time. Christopher Butler is the co-founder of Power of Positivity, a platform now reaching more than 60 million people. In 2009 he was laid off, freshly bankrupt, 320 pounds, with a baby on the way and, by his own description, no trust in himself to lead his own life. This conversation is about what actually rebuilt that, and why the sequence almost everyone gets backward is the reason their self-trust never holds.
The Doer's Asymmetry
You finished the conversation, replayed it in your head, and asked yourself why you over-explained to people who already respected you. This week I sat down with Lynn Howard, business development strategist, fractional COO, author, and co-creator of The Pursuit of Badasserie, who has spent 25 years building and selling companies across three continents. We trace the self-trust thread running through her decision to buy a franchise as a single mom, her partnership in Badasserie, and the moment she caught herself reaching for validation from people who were already in her corner. The conversation lands on the gap between what your results are and what your self-concept will accept.
She Walked Away from Her Dream Job and Threw Spaghetti at the Wall for a Year
She missed her son's first birthday on a shoot, and that was the moment the wheel started turning on a career she had wanted since she was five. This week I'm joined by Shannon Russell, business coach, speaker, host of the Second Act Success podcast, and author of Start Your Second Act: How to Change Careers, Launch a Business, and Create Your Best Life. After sixteen years producing television in New York and LA, Shannon walked away from the dream job, threw spaghetti at the wall for a year, ran a STEM education franchise for eight years, sold it at its peak, and went all in on coaching women through the same threshold. Underneath every pivot is the same quiet question: do I trust myself to choose what fits the life I'm actually living now?
She Took the "Smart" Advice. Then Worked Until 2 AM.
What happens when you take advice from someone successful, but not from someone who has been where you actually want to go? Adri Kopp, email strategist, copywriter, and co-creator of Inbox Academy, knew early on she wanted to niche in email. A peer who was further along told her to stay general first. The advice sounded logical, the peer was successful, so Adri silenced her own knowing. The cost arrived as draining blog projects, 2 a.m. deadlines, and an identity she did not earn: "procrastinator."
From TV Producer to Entrepreneur: How Being a Badass Became a Business
Amanda shares her journey from working as a television producer to leaving that career to build her own business β without telling her family for years. She opens up about navigating ego, fear, and over $100,000 of debt, and how trusting herself through private struggle ultimately reshaped how she leads, decides, and defines success."
When Playing It Safe Isnβt Secure
Nurse practitioner Sarah Michelle Boes shares the honest before-and-after of self-trust β including the year she kept a full-time teaching job while building her 7-figure business, not because it was aligned, but because it felt βresponsible.β Exhausted and afraid to leap, she eventually realized she was holding onto security that was costing her more than it gave.
How Self-Trust Replaced Perfectionismβand Changed Everything
Dr. Hany Demian, physician, entrepreneur, and regenerative medicine pioneer, joins us for a powerful conversation about self-trust, leadership, and growth through discomfort. For four years, Dr. Demian wrestled with a decision he knew he needed to makeβbut didnβt yet trust himself to act on. When he finally did, everything changed.
Trusting the Nudge | Identity, Faith and Building MBS
Mandi St. Germaine β co-founder of MBS | The Woman Beyond the Cape β shares her powerful journey of rediscovering her purpose, trusting Godβs calling, and building a faith-rooted activewear brand that is helping women reclaim their identity.
About the Show
No Amount of Strategy Can Compensate for a Lack of Self-Trust.
If you're navigating decision fatigue, procrastination, perfectionism, or inconsistent follow-through, this podcast gives you the tools, mindset, and momentum you've been missing.
Hosted by Dawn Ledet, The Self Trust Coach, each episode helps you turn self-trust into a repeatable success cycle β through her signature frameworks like the Self Trust Success Cycle and the Momentum Loop (Decide β Do β Have Your Own Back).
Through solo episodes and deeply resonant guest conversations, you'll hear honest, insight-rich stories of the moments when self-trust changed everything.
You'll Learn How To
Season 3
You Built Something Real. And You've Hit a Wall.
More strategy has not moved it. More effort has not moved it. You are starting to sense that what looks like a business problem might actually be something deeper.
That is exactly the conversation Season 3 is built for.
We are featuring entrepreneurs and service providers who have hit a ceiling they cannot move and are honest enough to look at what is actually underneath it. Still in it is welcome. Finished and tidy is not required.
The kinds of stories we're tellingβ¦
Revenue that has plateaued no matter what you launch and the moment you stopped blaming the strategy.
A client roster that will not grow past a certain point and what you finally recognized was holding it there.
A new chapter of business that made you question everything you thought you knew about yourself.
The moment you saw clearly that the ceiling was not a business problem at all.
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