Episode three_ Presence under pressure

Just like boiling potatoes, some pressure is required to help us transform. When we allow pressure to overload (or over-boil), it then spills over into other areas of our life, generally leading to burn-out. Yet there is one simple thing we can do to avoid this spill, and you can hear that here in this episode, Presence Under Pressure._______________________I am Susan, creator of the Speak Afraid Method, host of this podcast, and someone who has lived through the very thing we are going to talk about together across the series. The change that shifts something in who you are. The fear that goes for your voice first. The in between place where you are no longer who you were and not yet who you are becoming, and where showing up with confidence and connection feels harder than it ever used to.I built this podcast because that experience can feel extraordinarily lonely. Even when you life looks full from the outside. Even when the people around you would never guess it. And because I discovered, through developing the Speak Afraid Method and working with people navigating real change, that there is a way through it. Not around, through it, and your voice is the very thing that take you there.This podcast is for anyone who is navigation change that is shaping who they are in their work, in their relationships, their sense of self, and who wants to communicate through it with more courage, more connection, and more of themselves intact.It is for the sales professional whose confidence has quietly shifted since their market changed. The business owner rebuilding their team and wondering who they are in the new version of what they are creating. The person somewhere between the career they had and the one they are building, not yet sure how to introduce themselves in rooms that used to feel familiar.It is for the capable ones. The ones who know they have more to offer than they are currently showing up for. The ones who have not lost their voice, they have only misplaced it somewhere in the middle of a change that moved faster than their confidence could follow.You are not behind. You are in the uncertainty gap. And there is a way through it.______________________The Blossoming Speaker Podcast; Speak Afraid to redirect fear into courage to communicate through change.New episodes weekly. Solo conversations. No performance. Its Susan, you, and a way through.If this episode resonated, subscribe so you do not miss what comes next. If you know someone navigating change who needs to hear that they are not alone, please share this episode with them. It might be exactly what they need today.New here? Start at the beginning, Episode Zero Welcome. This one's for you, will tell you what this podcast is and whether it is what you've been looking for.Stay in the conversation with some light practice. Get the Minute Insight Newsletter. A 1-2 minute read each week, with one insight and one small step forward. © 2026 Blossoming Speaker. All Rights Reserved.The Blossoming Speaker Podcast, including all audio episodes, show notes, and written content, is produced and hosted by Susan Paczkowski and is the intellectual property of Blossoming Speaker Pty Ltd.The Speak Afraid Method is the original work and intellectual property of Susan Paczkowski personally, and is used under licence by Blossoming Speaker Pty Ltd for the purposes of this podcast and associated content.