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Decoding Confidence Podcast

Conversations for leaders, professionals and changemakers who want to lead with clarity, courage and authenticity.

Confidence is talked about constantly, yet rarely explained in a way that feels real, inclusive, or sustainable.

Decoding Confidence is a podcast for leaders, professionals, and changemakers who want to lead with clarity, courage, and authenticity, without pretending to be someone they’re not.

Hosted by confidence and leadership coach Advita Patel, each episode explores what confidence really looks like in everyday leadership, drawing on the seven habits of confident leaders.

Through thoughtful conversations, practical reflections, and grounded insights, the podcast creates space to understand yourself better, navigate doubt, and lead in a way that feels human, sustainable, and true to who you are.

LATEST EPISODE

S2: Episode 4: Change Communications Gone Wrong? 5 Confidence Habits

Your change communications plan has fallen apart. Now what? You’ve written the narrative, briefed the managers and run the town hall. Then the dates move, leadership changes its mind, and everyone turns to you.

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S2: Episode 4: Change Communications Gone Wrong? 5 Confidence Habits

S2: Episode 3: How to Handle Difficult Stakeholders During Change Using 4 Communication Styles

When a stakeholder doesn’t engage with your change communications, it’s easy to assume they’re being difficult, or that you’re doing something wrong. In this episode of Decoding Confidence, Advita explores another possibility: most people aren’t difficult, they’re different.

S2: Episode 2: How to Build Leadership Confidence: 3 Lessons from Bridget Aherne

What does leadership confidence really look like when you’re having a rough week? In this episode of Decoding Confidence, I’m joined by my good friend Bridget Aherne, a senior public-sector communications leader, a Chartered PR Practitioner, and one of the most honest people I know.

S2: Episode one: Self-Trust: 7 Honest Lessons on Confidence, With Kaz Hassan

Self-trust is where this conversation begins, and it reframes almost everything you thought confidence was about. Kaz Hassan leads Partner Marketing and Thought Leadership at Unily and has interviewed everyone from Tan France to Mo Gawdat. This time, Advita Patel turns the tables and interviews him about what confidence really means.

Episode 27: Three confidence tiers that will help you be more confident

Why can you feel confident one day and freeze in a meeting the next? In this episode of Decoding Confidence, I explore the confidence stack, a framework that helps individuals and organisations understand how confidence actually operates across different layers.

Episode 26: Psychological Safety: 4 Prompts to Beat Workplace Languishing

This episode dives into the growing issue of workplace languishing, in which over 60% of workers feel disengaged and disconnected. Advita Patel explores the core role confidence and leadership behaviours play in fostering a psychologically safe environment that boosts engagement, innovation, an

Episode 25: Quiet Confidence: 7 Honest Truths About Leadership

What does real confidence look like for young women in leadership? In this episode, PR strategist and founder Parul Yadav gets candid about building self-trust, challenging cultural expectations, and leading authentically without shrinking or performing.

Episode 24: Your Confidence Questions Answered

How do you stay confident at work when your workload is unmanageable, your manager is draining your energy, or the people around you are quietly negative?

Episode 23: Workplace Culture and Confidence: 8 Surprising Truths

In this episode of Decoding Confidence, I explore how workplace culture shapes our confidence far more than we tend to admit, and why confidence is rarely just a personal trait you either have or lack.