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
The Promise You Keep
She's spent 20 years helping other people finish their hardest work. Her own sat unfinished for three years. My guest this week is Jenn Farrer, certified executive coach, keynote speaker, and author of Make Them Think: How to Coach for Ownership, Insight, and Action. Jenn has coached and trained thousands of executives, athletes, and teams. But this conversation is about the season most people never see, nearly three years into what was supposed to be a six month creative sabbatical, with nothing finished but a Notes app full of half-started ideas, and what it actually took to change that.
Reversible Decisions and Walking Away from Millions
He hit every financial goal he'd ever set. And he still felt like something was missing. My guest this week is Ray Higdon, founder of Higdon Group, where he helps sales reps stop chasing and start closing with confidence. Since 2018, he's helped students generate over 300,000 new customers. But this conversation isn't about sales tactics. It's about the decision Ray made in November 2022 that cost him a multimillion dollar contract, reshaped his marriage, and changed how he runs his business, and what it actually takes to trust a direction that doesn't come with guarantees.
The Decision Before Clarity: When Mission Pulls You Out of Retirement
Sam Yehia spent 35 years building and scaling 13 businesses across hospitality, entertainment, and real estate before selling everything in 2019, just ahead of the pandemic. He didn't stay retired. He returned to build a platform for first person journalism, not because the math made sense, but because he decided it was necessary before he had proof it would work.
You Have to Be Not Great Before You're Great
Diondra Filicetti is a learning and development professional, bestselling author of Engagement Economics, two-time TEDx speaker, and founder of Driven By Co. In this conversation, she shares the early season of her speaking careerβwhen clients kept hiring her back, her workshops were landing, and her self-concept hadn't yet caught up to the value she was already creating. Then one question changed everything. "Diondra... is this lucrative enough for you?" She had priced three workshops for less than her client expected to pay for one. What followed wasn't just a pricing shiftβit was an identity shift.
Decision Before Confidence
In this episode, Dawn sits down with Hailey Rowe, marketing and sales coach for wellness professionals, online entrepreneurs, and host of the top 1% globally ranked Health Coach Nation Podcast. Underneath Hailey's story is a sequence Melissa needs to see in real time. The decision came first. The practice came second. The expression of confidence came years later. Hailey made the all-in choice from a place she described as "not knowing," and the evidence she was hoping to feel before deciding only showed up after she had already decided.
The Almost-Ready Loop
In this episode, I sit down with Brittni Schroeder, business coach, marketing strategist, founder of the Compassion Club nonprofit, and former high school senior photographer featured in the Wall Street Journal and Good Morning America. We talk about what actually moved her from waiting to building, and why the readiness most entrepreneurs are chasing has no delivery mechanism.
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.
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
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Your Story Might Illuminate Something Bigger.
Season 4 of The Self Trust Solution is built around 12 core distinctionsβideas that change how we see ourselves, our decisions, our relationships, our leadership, and our lives.
Every guest conversation serves one of those distinctions through a real story, a live coaching conversation, or a reflection on what changed after living it.
If your experience has revealed something worth seeing differently, we'd love to hear from you.
The distinctions we're exploringβ¦
What Results Were Never Meant to Decide
When outcomes stopped being the judge of who you are or what's possible.
What Silence Reveals
What became visible when life finally got quiet enough to hear it.
Fear Isn't Authority
When you stopped letting fear have the final vote.
The Story Beneath the Strategy
When what looked like an external problem revealed something much deeper.
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