The Confident Woman Podcast

What if the thing you’ve been holding onto isn't proof that you’re being responsible, but the very thing God is asking you to release? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks shares the honest story behind the question that would not leave her alone: what is this costing me? After surviving one of the hardest seasons of her life, Rachel found herself looking at the weigh...

What if the season that feels like starting over is actually the moment you finally start from somewhere true? Most women have been here at least once: standing at the edge of a new season with the uncomfortable awareness that the life they've been building no longer fits who they're becoming. It's not failure, and it's not a sign they got it wrong. It's one of the clearest invitations God gives —...

What if the season that feels like it’s breaking you is actually the one God is using to rebuild you? In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks sits down with Christine Marie, known as the Cortisol Coach. Christine is a Christian entrepreneur, certified biblical mindset coach, bestselling author, podcast host, and leader of a community of more than 420,000 women. After years of...

What if the very thing you keep waiting to receive from someone else is the thing you have not yet learned how to give yourself? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks opens up a deeply honest conversation about giving, receiving, self-trust, self-respect, love, and the mirror that reveals what we are truly longing for. She speaks to the woman who has been looking for c...

What if the version of you that got you here is the very version you've already outgrown? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks to the woman who keeps reaching for old versions of herself when life feels uncertain — not because those versions were freer or more aligned, but because they were familiar. She may still be showing up, performing, producing, and carry...

In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel sits down with Annie Yatch for a raw conversation about over-functioning, burnout, reinvention, receiving, and what happens when the old way of carrying life no longer works. Annie is the CEO of Reinvention XO and creator of The Authority Shift. As a former counterterrorism analyst turned elite performance coach, Annie helps high-performing le...

What happens when the thing that once felt freeing slowly starts feeling like pressure? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast , Rachel Brooks reflects on the season after Chasing Perfection , her fitness competitions, and the visible transformation people could see from the outside. What looked like confidence, discipline, healing, and success to everyone else was also a season where...

What do you do when the thing God called you to build becomes the very thing He uses to rebuild you? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast , Rachel Brooks reflects on seven years, 375 episodes, and the story behind how the podcast began. What started as a quiet idea in a journal became a space for real conversations about identity, confidence, faith, healing, purpose, obedience, and...

What would it look like to stop defining yourself by your titles, roles, and the labels this world assigns you — and start living from the identity God actually placed in you? In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks sits down with success coach and keynote speaker Mitch Matthews — creator of the top 0.5% globally ranked DREAM THINK DO podcast — to talk about identity, permiss...

What do you do when the life you’re still living doesn’t feel like the life you can keep carrying? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast , Rachel Brooks speaks to the woman walking through a quiet identity shift she may not even know how to explain. Nothing may be falling apart on the outside. She may still be showing up, doing the work, taking care of everyone, keeping commitments,...

What if the exhaustion you're carrying has nothing to do with how much you've been working? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the burnout nobody talks about in the online space — not the calendar-full, boundary-lacking, too-many-obligations kind, but the kind that comes from grief. From loss. From a year that changes you so completely on the insid...

What happens when you stop waiting for the perfect moment and just start? In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks sits down with Tami and Elizabeth Lange, the mother-daughter duo behind Save the Girls, a touchscreen purse company that went from a prayer, a problem, and a one-way ticket to China to a massive success in just six weeks. They share the raw, real story of risking...

What do you do when the life you worked hard for, prayed for, and built from the ground up no longer feels like it actually fits? In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks directly to the woman who is living in the tension between the life that still looks familiar from the outside and the woman who is quietly, undeniably shifting on the inside. This is not about bu...

What if you have been doing everything right and your body just stops cooperating anyway? This is not the burnout that gets celebrated online. This is not the sleep-deprived, hustle-harder version people wear like a badge of honor. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the kind of burnout nobody talks about — the one where your entire nervous system c...

What does true confidence look like when you are running a global business and raising four kids? We often think confidence means having all the answers, but in this episode of The Confident Woman, Rachel Brooks sits down with Sunny Beutler, CEO of Sunrider International, to completely flip that narrative. Sunny shares her incredible journey of growing up in a family business, stepping into the ro...

What if you hit every goal, build the business, get the flexibility, and still feel completely empty? If you've ever reached the top of the mountain only to realize you climbed the wrong one, this episode is for you. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks pulls back the curtain on the reality of the "freedom lifestyle." She shares her own story of building what the...

There is one question that, when you ask it honestly, changes everything about how you build your business, your decisions, your yes, and what you finally give yourself permission to walk away from. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets real about the difference between building toward the life you actually want and building away from the one you're afraid of. She...

What if you're not broke because of what you're doing, but because of what you're believing? In this milestone 365th episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks sits down with Lisa Easton, founder of the only all-female investment club in the United States and 2025 Glamour Woman of the Year. Lisa went from bankruptcy and living in a single room in her sister's house — no job, four k...

What if your business was never supposed to be the main thing? In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rache Brooks gets honest about what it cost her to build a business on top of her life instead of underneath it — the burnout, the bitterness, the resentment toward the very thing she built to set her free. And what finally changed. If your business feels like a burden right now, this epi...

If you have been through a season that rewired you — grief, loss, collapse, or the quiet kind of breaking that nobody sees from the outside, and you can feel the pull to create again, but you keep talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you. In this solo episode, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the tension between healing and building, why most faith-fueled founders keep waiting for a fini...

Most women are not hiding because they don't want to be known. They're hiding because they've decided the real version of them, the full, unedited, messy, complicated version, would cost them their seat at the table. Tommi Vincent spent decades believing that too. Then she realized the ingredients she was most ashamed of were the ones God intended to use all along. In this episode of The Confident...

You open your laptop, you've got your sticky notes and your plan of attack — and within minutes, you're overwhelmed. Not because you don't know what to do, but because you have too many things you could do and no idea what actually moves the needle. That's not a motivation problem. It's a systems problem. And it's the most expensive one in your business — because it disguises itself as productivit...

What happens when you've rebuilt your identity—but your business no longer fits who you've become? In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks tackles the question no one talks about after reinvention: "Now what do I build?" After a year of deep identity work through grief and loss, we're turning a corner—from processing to building. And we'll be discovering that rebuilding...

Someone asks you to take on something new—an opportunity, a project, a leadership moment—and before you even consider it, your brain shuts it down with two words: “I can’t.” In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast , Rachel breaks down what limiting beliefs really are—not the loud, obvious ones, but the quiet, automatic stories and phrases you repeat so often they start to sound like truth....

You can chase “success” for years and still feel empty, exhausted, and off on the inside. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast , Rachel Brooks breaks down why real success isn’t the boxes you check, the titles you collect, or the numbers you hit—it’s personal, values-based, and rooted in what actually matters to you. Rachel talks about the cost of living by everyone else’s standards...