Inner Self-Confidence

Hosted by Katie Delimon, Author, Coach & Yoga Teacher, this podcast is for women who overthink, self-doubt, people-please, or freeze when it’s time to speak up.

Each episode explores how to build real inner self-confidence through nervous system regulation, boundaries, and self-trust — especially under stress. Expect practical tools, honest conversations, and simple strategies to build capacity, clarity, and consistency, so you can show up calm, clear, and confident.

✨ Confidence isn’t about being louder — it’s about feeling safe in your body.

Latest Episodes:

61. What Do Cornell 7, Sydney Sweeney & Lindsay Clancy Have in Common? With Psychologist Ilia Poznak Oct 17, 2026

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They've become symbols.

Symbols we use to debate gender, morality, mental health, victimhood, accountability and who we believe is good or evil.

In Episode 61 of the Inner Self-Confidence Podcast, I'm joined by registered psychologist and certified executive coach Ilia Poznak for a conversation about something I think we're rapidly losing: our ability to sit in the grey
I recently connected with Ilia on Instagram after being drawn to his willingness to talk about subjects many people shy away from — questioning popular narratives, exploring uncomfortable perspectives and bringing nuance back into conversations that increasingly demand we pick a side.

We get into moral typecasting and why our brains want heroes and villains. We talk about virtue signalling, social media, group identity, moral judgement and what happens when a human being becomes a symbol for an entire social issue.

We also explore the growing divide between men and women.

Are women being taught that men are dangerous while men are being taught that women hate or manipulate them?

Can we believe and support victims without turning allegations into internet entertainment?

Can we talk about mental illness without removing accountability?

Can we condemn someone's behaviour without completely dehumanising them?

Can empathy and accountability exist at the same time?

And perhaps the question underneath this entire conversation:

Are we becoming so determined to prove that we're on the “right” side that we're losing our ability to see each other's humanity?

This conversation isn't about telling you what to think.

It's about asking whether we're still willing to think for ourselves.

🎙️ IN THIS EPISODE:

• Moral typecasting and our need for heroes and villains
• The psychology of “good vs. evil”
• Virtue signalling and online morality
• Why nuance feels increasingly difficult online
• Social media, algorithms and groupthink
• The growing divide between men and women
• Empathy vs. accountability
• Why understanding behaviour isn't the same as excusing it
• What happens when people become symbols instead of human beings
• How to stay curious when something challenges what you believe

CONNECT WITH ILIA POZNAK

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ilia.the.psych/

Website / 1UP Coaching:
https://1upcoach.com/about

CONNECT WITH KATIE

Website:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/katiedelimon/

🔥 My memoir — Trust the Flames:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/trust-the-flames

🧠 Download FREE Nervous System Toolkit:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/toolkit
✨ Nervous System Reboot
https://www.katiedelimon.com/nervous-system-reboot

60.Break The Cycle Before It Breaks You, with Author & Coach, Priscilla Gutiérrez Oct 10, 2026

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I sit down with Priscilla — author, activist, coach and self-described cycle breaker — for a raw and honest conversation about childhood trauma, domestic violence, the systems surrounding survivors, and what it actually takes to break a cycle before it breaks you.

Priscilla survived childhood sexual abuse by her grandfather and later found herself in a domestic violence relationship. She went on to study law, but ultimately chose not to practise after questioning the very systems that are supposed to protect vulnerable people.

We also have an important conversation about modern psychology and therapy. Priscilla shares her own experiences of seeking professional support and, at times, feeling unsupported and further traumatised by the people and systems she turned to for help.

We talk about survival mode, shame, self-trust, finding your voice, recognising the less obvious signs of abuse, and the difference between surviving your past and actually creating a life beyond it.

And perhaps most importantly: Are generational cycles broken in one huge courageous moment — or through thousands of tiny choices we make differently every single day?

Because being a cycle breaker isn't about pretending the past didn't happen.

It's deciding: it ends with me.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Childhood sexual trauma and its impact into adulthood
• Domestic violence and the red flags we often don't recognise
• Why survivors can blame themselves
• When therapy causes more harm instead of healing
• The limitations of our legal and mental-health systems
• Rebuilding self-trust after trauma
• Finding your voice after years of silence
• Breaking generational patterns
• Turning pain into purpose

CONNECT WITH PRISCILLA

Instagram: @cyclebreakercoach
https://www.instagram.com/cyclebreakercoach/

Website + Resources:
https://bio.site/cyclebreakercoach
HER BOOK: Break the Cycle Before it Breaks You:Unlock the Mindset That Sets You Free

CONNECT WITH KATIE

Website:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/

Instagram: @katiedelimon
https://instagram.com/katiedelimon

🔥 Order my memoir, Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/trust-the-flames

🧠 Download my FREE Nervous System Toolkit:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/toolkit

✨ Nervous System Reboot — my self-paced course to help you understand and regulate your nervous system:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/nervous-system-reboot

59. Time Mastery: You Don’t Need More Time, You Need More Alignment Oct 04, 2026

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Do you constantly feel like there are never enough hours in the day?

What if you don’t actually have a time problem… but an alignment problem?

In this episode, I’m sharing my Time Mastery framework and challenging the idea that becoming more productive is the answer.

We all get the same 1,440 minutes each day—but where are yours actually going? And more importantly, are they going toward the life you say you want?

We’ll explore your values, vision and time, why everything feels urgent when you’re unclear on what matters, how distractions and context-switching steal your attention, and the Zones Framework for protecting both focused work and genuine rest. Time Mastery Time Mastery

Because Time Mastery isn’t about doing more. It’s about aligning your time with what you say matters most—and protecting that alignment fiercely. Time Mastery

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58. Widowed. 17 Weeks Pregnant. With Triplets, with Ashleigh Conwell, Founder of Yellow Falcon Sep 29, 2026

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At 29 years old and 17 weeks pregnant with triplets, Ashleigh Conwell’s life changed in an instant when her husband suddenly died.

In this incredibly honest conversation, Ashleigh shares what grief really looks like—the shock, the nervous system response, the pressure to be “strong,” and the mountain of practical decisions and paperwork that still have to happen when your world has fallen apart.

We talk about what people get wrong about grief, what actually helps, why workplaces need to do better, and how you learn to build a life alongside a loss you never chose.

Ashleigh is now the founder of Yellow Falcon — grief support, made practical, helping bereaved people, their supporters and workplaces navigate life after loss.

💛 CONNECT WITH ASHLEIGH

🌐 Yellow Falcon: https://www.yellowfalcon.com.au
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleigh.conwell/

🔥 CONNECT WITH KATIE

🌐 Website: https://www.katiedelimon.com
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/katiedelimon
📖 Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/trust-the-flames
🧠 FREE Nervous System Toolkit:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/toolkit

57. WTF is Burning Man and Why Do I Love It So Much Sep 23, 2026

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What happens when you spend thousands of dollars to live in the middle of a desert, covered in dust, with no proper shower… and somehow call it one of the most magical experiences of your life? 😂

Welcome to Burning Man!

I met my husband Kenny there in 2015, experienced some of the wildest synchronicities of my life, and discovered a community unlike anything I've ever experienced.

But Burning Man is SO much more than a "festival."

In this episode, I'm sharing what Burning Man actually is, why I keep going back, the 10 Principles that make it so extraordinary, and six life lessons I've brought home from the desert.

🔥 The 10 Principles of Burning Man:

Radical Inclusion
Gifting
Decommodification
Radical Self-Reliance
Radical Self-Expression
Communal Effort
Civic Responsibility
Leaving No Trace
Participation
Immediacy

From a place with no judgement to the freedom of being off the grid...Burning Man has taught me that life isn't meant to be watched from the sidelines. It's meant to be LIVED. Have fun and play!!

📚 WANT MORE OF MY STORY?

In Chapter 19 of my memoir, Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness, I share more about my Burning Man journey and how I met my husband, Kenny.

📖 Get your copy of Trust the Flames

🌐 Visit my website for coaching, nervous system resources, and more!
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56. He Heals People With His Hands — And Science Studied Him with Charlie Goldsmith Sep 12, 2026

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At 18 years old, Charlie Goldsmith discovered he had an unusual ability to help facilitate healing.

Now, after 27 years of working with people, his work has also become the subject of scientific investigation — including research connected with universities and medical institutions.

In this fascinating conversation, Charlie and I explore:

✨ What he actually does — without relying on the words “energy healing”
✨ Why he welcomed scientific scrutiny
✨ How powerful the "Placebo" is
✨ The impact of stress and emotions on the body
✨ What 27 years of working with people has taught him about the human body's capacity to heal

Whether you're a believer, a sceptic or simply curious, this conversation is an invitation to stay open to what we don't yet understand.

CONNECT WITH CHARLIE

🌿 Website: https://charliegoldsmith.com
📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charliegoldsmith/
📖 Charlie's Book Human Medicine: The Lost Manual for Your Emotions — a book exploring our emotions, reactions, behaviours and a different way of understanding emotional healing.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Human-Medicine-Lost-Manual-Emotions/dp/B0FKFWCPZB

CONNECT WITH KATIE

🌿 Website: https://www.katiedelimon.com
📖 Book: Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness
💬 Book a FREE Discovery Call: https://www.katiedelimon.com

55. Your First Thought Isn’t Reality — STOP BELIEVING IT! Sep 05, 2026

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Someone doesn’t reply… they’re mad at me.
Your partner seems quiet… what did I do?
Your boss says, “Can we chat?”… I’m getting fired.

Sound familiar?

In this I’m talking about how quickly our nervous system can turn uncertainty into an entire story — and why your first emotional response isn’t always reality.

Sometimes, it’s survival.

I share a recent experience of being blocked by a friend and how I learned to separate what actually happened from the story my nervous system created.

We talk boundaries, rejection, over-apologising, emotional maturity and one powerful question:

What else could be true?z

Because confidence isn’t believing nothing difficult will happen.

It’s trusting yourself to handle it when it does.

🌿 Website: https://www.katiedelimon.com
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katiedelimon/
📖 Book: Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness
💬 FREE Discovery Call

54. Three Kids. 36 Years Old. Incurable Cancer with Speaker & Cancer Thriver Cass Miller Aug 29, 2026

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At 36, with three young children (under the age of 3), Cassie Miller was diagnosed with incurable neuroendocrine cancer.

Today, she says she feels healthier, happier and more alive than she did before her diagnosis.

Now a speaker and advocate, Cassie is on a mission to help people get off the hamster wheel of chronic stress and burnout and move from autopilot to truly ALIVE—before it takes a life-changing diagnosis to wake them up.

In this powerful conversation, Cassie shares how she embraces what she calls medicine AND magic.

Medicine is the doctors, treatment and science supporting her body.

Magic is the harder-to-explain stuff: spirituality, intuition, awe, connection to the divine and trusting in something bigger than ourselves.

She talks about the book: The Awakened Brain by Dr. Lisa Miller that opened her eyes to the Neuroscience of Spirituality.

Can we heal even when we can't be cured?

This isn't about choosing spirituality over modern medicine. It's about what becomes possible when we make room for both.

Connect with Cassie:
https://www.instagram.com/iamcassmiller/

CONNECT WITH KATIE

My website:
https://www.katiedelimon.com

📖 Trust the Flames:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/trust-the-flames

💛 90 Days to Inner Self-Confidence:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/confidence

🧠 Nervous System Reboot:
https://www.katiedelimon.com/nervous-system-reboot

*BONUS*Wrong Man, Right Country - Personal Essay Aug 21, 2026

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What if your intuition was right… just not in the way you thought?

I recently submitted a personal essay, The Wrong Man, The Right Country, to an anthology exploring intuition, inevitability and the strange clarity of knowing — and I wanted to share the audio version with you here.

At 20 years old, after spending just 10 days in Australia, I knew with absolute certainty: I’m going to live here one day.

What I didn't know was the heartbreak, loss, wrong turns and one very wrong man it would take to eventually get me here.

This is a story about learning that intuition isn't always a map. Sometimes, it's a compass.

Sometimes you can be completely wrong about the destination… and still be heading in exactly the right direction.

✨ CONNECT WITH ME

🌿 Website: https://www.katiedelimon.com
📱 Instagram: @katiedelimon
📖 Trust the Flames: My Wild Ride from Mindlessness to Mindfulness — available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

53. Speed Up by Slowing Down: Why Rushing Is Actually Slowing You Down Aug 15, 2026

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What if the reason you’re not moving forward isn’t that you need to work harder — but because you need to slow down?

We live in a world that glorifies urgency, productivity and doing it all. But constantly rushing can leave us reactive, overwhelmed and disconnected from what we actually want.

In this short episode, I share why slowing down has helped me accomplish more, not less — from the way I walk, drive and do everyday chores to the way I communicate, make decisions and build my business.

We’ll explore why slowing down isn’t about doing less — it’s about becoming more present and intentional with what you’re already doing.

Plus, I’ll give you a simple (and intentionally uncomfortable) challenge to try this week.And if you want to build real inner confidence, this is exactly what we practise inside Confident by Christmas: 90 Days to Inner Self-Confidence — building capacity first, then clarity, then consistency.

Because sometimes the fastest way forward is to stop rushing your way there.

✨ WORK WITH ME + CONNECT

🌿 90 Days to Inner Self-Confidence / Confident by Christmas ⁠Join 90 Days to Inner Self-Confidence⁠

🧠 Nervous System Reboot — practical tools to move from stress and survival mode into greater calm, regulation and resilience. ⁠Join Nervous System Reboot⁠

🔥 My Memoir — Trust the Flames ⁠Get Trust the Flames⁠

🌐 Website ⁠katiedelimon.com

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