Episode: Renaissance: Believing in Yourself — Finding Your Confidence Again in a Season That Asks Us to Believe in Magic

Podcast: Agile Unemployment with Sabina Sulat

Runtime: 30 minutes

Episode Summary

At a holiday party filled with toy cars and twinkling lights, a six-year-old girl announced with perfect confidence:

“I’m going to be really good at racing.”

Her certainty sparked a question that stayed with me for weeks:

When did we stop believing in ourselves?

In this season that asks us to believe in wonder, possibility, and magic, it’s worth asking why so many adults lose the ability to believe in their own potential.

This episode is about the quiet erosion of self-belief — and its rebirth.

Through storytelling, reflection, and a deeply personal moment I’ve never shared publicly, we explore where belief goes, why it slips away so gradually, and how to bring it back before we step into a new year.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your confidence, your ambition, or your sense of identity, this episode is your invitation to rediscover yourself.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
🌟 1. The holiday moment that inspired this conversation

A child’s certainty meets an adult’s cynicism — and reveals something about all of us.

🌟 2. How self-belief erodes slowly over time

Workplaces, culture, and expectations quietly reshape how we see ourselves.

🌟 3. Why unemployment often becomes a renaissance

How losing a job removes external definitions and forces you to meet your true self again.

🌟 4. My own reckoning with lost self-belief

The moment I looked in the mirror and didn’t recognize myself — and how that became the beginning of everything I do now.

🌟 5. A framework for rebuilding belief from the inside out

The Accomplishment Inventory

The Want List

The Daily Declaration

Why these practices work — and how to start today.

🌟 6. A holiday invitation to reconnect with your younger self

Because this season isn’t only about believing in magic — it’s about believing in you.

Key Quotes From the Episode

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  “Belief doesn’t disappear — it erodes, quietly, over time.”

  
  


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  “Unemployment doesn’t define you. It reveals you.”

  
  


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  “Your seven-year-old self wasn’t naïve — she was telling the truth about who you could be.”

  
  


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  “This is the season of believing in magic. Let some of that belief return to yourself.”

  
  

Your Holiday Assignment

This week, give yourself the gift of belief:

✨ Find a childhood photo

✨ Write a letter from that child to your current self

✨ Name a professional goal that scares you

✨ Declare it aloud — because what you speak, you begin to believe

If You Feel Lost Right Now

You are not broken.

You are becoming.

The person who used to believe without hesitation is still inside you — waiting.

This is your renaissance.

This is your season of return.

Connect With Sabina

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  Website: ReWorking.com

  
  


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  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sabinasulat

  
  


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  Podcast: Agile Unemployment

  
  


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  Programs: C2C — College to Career

  
  


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  Books: Agile Unemployment and more coming soon

  
  

If This Episode Moved You

Please share it with someone who needs a reminder that belief isn’t lost — it’s buried.

And this season is the perfect time to let it shine.