Building Confidence

Building Confidence

A podcast about growth, realistic tools, practical strategies, and support. Whether you’re starting out, facing challenges, or looking to level up, Building Confidence brings you real conversations, practical insights, and inspiring stories to help you navigate your journey with confidence. Your host, Louise, is a heavy vehicle and plant mechanic by trade who started her apprenticeship at just 15 years old. Over the years, she has faced and overcome harassment, impostor syndrome, mental health struggles, and workplace challenges—while also achieving industry awards and experience in both large corporations and family businesses. Now a life coach and mentor for tradeswomen, Louise is here to share the lessons she’s learned so that her struggles weren’t for nothing—and so you can build the confidence to take charge of your own path.

Episodes

June 9, 2025 12 mins

In this episode I talk about our inner voice, who is our inner voice? Over time, we may take on the other peoples thoughts and opinions about us and if we are not careful they can become our own inner voice!

If you would like help or support with this process or you are a business wanting to make the workplace better for tradeswomen and minorities, you can inquire through my website, louiseazzopardi.com

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Life can get mundane, repetitive. In these times it is important that we notice the little things. One of the little things we can notice are our small everyday wins. In this weeks episode I go through some ideas on things we can do ‘micro reflections’ on to keep us going and feel accomplished!

If you would like help or support with this process, you can join my free Facebook community, tradeswomen owning their power, or if you wou...

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Always feel like its your fault for being bullied? Let me tell you, it's not you, its them!

If you are a tradeswoman or tradesperson who would like to feel less anxious and more confident, don't hesitate to contact me through my website, Louiseazzopardi.com, and we can schedule a coaching consultation!

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Ever find yourself double, triple and quadruple checking things and still feeling the self doubt that you've done it wrong?

In this episode I go trough tools that can help you confidently double check once!

If you would like help or support with this process, you can join my free Facebook community, tradeswomen owning their power, or if you would like 1:1 support or you are a business wanting to make the workplace better for trades...

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Do you find yourself going to the worst case scenario and feeling stuck there? I do, I used to be stuck there for days or weeks sometimes, but now the thoughts come up and I can move through them pretty quickly.

In this episode, I go through how I move through catastrophizing thoughts.

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When making decisions, big and small, there are a lot of things to consider and we can sometimes find ourselves overwhelmed and confused. When we separate our feelings and our facts and give them the air time they both need we are able to make a decision from a clear mind.

In this episode I break down the process of decision making.

Applications are now open for the 2025.5 Tradeswomen Owning Their Power Coaching Scholarships!

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Sometimes advice is useful, it shoots us ahead in our lives, careers or gives us clarity, sometimes it makes us feel overwhelmed, like taking it would go against our values. In this episode, I go through how to sort through advice and see if it could be useful now, later or not at all.

If you would like help or support with these please contact us through louiseazzopardi.com 

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When I first heard the phrase "Depression can sometimes be repressed anger", it was like the stars aligned. I couldn't unsee the things I was angry about, but often I was told that "that's just how it is" or that there are bigger problems or that it wasn't actually a problem so I would then try not to be angry and would then find myself on the slippery slope down to feeling like there was no hope.

In this episode I share how this h...

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Sometimes when you ask someone a question that they don't know the answer to then it can trigger them to be defensive. Rather than say, sorry I don't know ask so and so they may call you stupid or say that you should know and work it out for yourself in an aggressive way.

In this episode I go through what to do if you find yourself in this situation. 

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This episode is about unsubscribing from things we "have to do" or "should do". Society has these low-lying annoyance things that we have been told we must do, but do we really have to do them? some maybe, but most definitely not all of them.

If you are a tradeswoman who would like to feel less anxious and more confident, don't hesitate to contact me through my website, Louiseazzopardi.com, and we can schedule a coaching consultati...

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Unfortunently in the trades industry some apprentices find themselves being used as cheap labour, you are not the first person to be in this position and you wont be the last. In this episode I go through some tips and tricks to get yourself out of these sitiautions. 

If you would like help or support with this process or you are a business wanting to make the workplace better for tradeswomen and minorities, you can inquire through...

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Often, when we interact with someone, their emotional state is left over from their last interaction or from earlier in the day and is not about you (which is often the path our brain goes down). In this episode, I go through some tips and tricks on how to separate yourself from other people's emotions because, honestly, they most likely are not about you.

If you would like help or support with this process, you can join my free Fa...

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In this episode, I flip the script on the lovely "making mountains out of molehills" saying because sometimes we do the opposite.

If you would like help or support with these please contact us through louiseazzopardi.com 

This episode is proudly supported by the Diesel Dirt and Turf expo,, which will be held on the 16th, 17th and 18th of May at the Sydney Dragway – Ferrers Rd, Eastern Creek NSW 2766. For more info about the expo he...

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When you walk into a workplace that has its values written on the wall and one of them is "flexibility" you would imagine that you would be able to ask for some adjustments in your work hours and be respected and treated equally while taking those adjustments, but that is not always the case. In my experience, about half the companies that preach flexibility actually give it and the other half use it as a tactic to get people in an...

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I have overworked myself, so this is a short description because I am exhausted xx

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Over time, we learn things, some on purpose, some when we are in survival mode, some through society's programming and some from our families and teachers.

Some of this stuff is useful, some of it is useful at the time we learn it, and some is taught to us to take advantage of us.

When we work out something isnt useful but it is engrained into our personality (like overworking) it can be hard to break the pattern. In this episode I...

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The shock of being told "you should know this" after being told over and over again that no question is a silly question can hit you pretty hard and can send you spiralling down the "I'm not good enough path" In this episode, I share 4 steps to go from being a question asker to a problem solver. 

If you are a tradeswoman who would like to feel less anxious and more confident, don't hesitate to contact me through my website, Louisea...

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Going from having no idea to being an expert in something can feel like a long, almost impossible process, but it is actually just four steps. I go through the four steps in this episode you can feel confident that you know what to do when you come across something you have no idea about! 

If you would like help or support with this process, you can join my free Facebook community, tradeswomen owning their power, or if you would li...

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We have a name change! We are moving from Anxious Tradeswoman to Building Confidence! After 83 episodes under the anxious tradeswoman name, we have decided to grow into our next chapter with a new mantra—we are building confidence. In this episode, I discuss the power of having believable thoughts that make us feel more positive and support us along our journey!  

If you would like help or support with this process or you are a bus...

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Red flags are a bit of a buzzword, but what do they actually mean, what do they look like, and what can you do about them? Ignoring red flags doesn't make them go away; it usually makes things worse. 

If you would like help or support with this process, you can join my free Facebook community, tradeswomen owning their power, or if you would like 1:1 support or you are a business wanting to make the workplace better for tradeswomen ...

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