How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Yourself

Update: 2025-11-11

Description

What if your biggest obstacle isn't lack of confidence — it's that you're stuck in your own thoroughness?

In this episode, we sit down with Atty Cronin, CPD-certified career coach for women in tech, ex-software developer, and the woman who's allergic to pros and cons lists, with host Kelly Shungu.

Atty shares her journey from 15+ years in web and software development at Time Warner, Capgemini, and the Civil Service to becoming the coach who helps brilliant women stop making spreadsheets and start making decisions. After multiple pivots in and out of tech — and navigating ADHD, perimenopause, miscarriage, postpartum depression, and mum guilt in male-dominated spaces — Atty now coaches women who trust everyone's opinion except their own.

We dive into:

✨ The pattern that keeps accomplished women stuck: it's not confidence, it's thoroughness

✨ Why pros and cons lists are keeping you paralysed instead of moving you forward

✨ How ADHD showed up in her tech career and what she had to learn to succeed

✨ The invisible load women carry in tech that no one talks about professionally

✨ Her three-step process: exit the thought spirals, trust yourself, take action that fits your real life

✨ How to make career decisions in days instead of months

Whether you're months into analysing a decision, making endless lists that lead nowhere, or ready to back yourself the way you back everyone else — this conversation will give you permission to stop overthinking and start trusting what you already know.

Don't miss our Women in STEM event on November 19th, 6-9 PM at Somerset House! Atty is generously providing a coaching session as a giveaway prize for attendees. Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1839543166129?aff=oddtdtcreator

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