Girl, Choose Yourself!

Confidence Session 1: I Choose

Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself. This week's session is about releasing the need to push, force, or strive — and returning to the deeper knowing that is always there beneath the noise. How to use this session: Save this episode. Listen every day for the next seven days. Morning is a beautiful time — before the day begins and before anyone else's agenda has reached you. Last thing at night is equally powerful, letting the words settle into you as you drift toward sleep. Some days it will land immediately. Some days it will take a few listens. That's the practice. This week's condensed anchor: I don't chase. I choose. I don't strive. I trust. Everything I need is already in motion. I come back to centre — and life meets me there. Ready to go deeper? The Confidence Key, my eight-week coaching programme, is the link below. https://eimearzone.com/confidence-coaching/ Share Your Thoughts [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363172/fan_mail/new] CONNECT WITH EIMEAR  Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear:  Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach [https://www.instagram.com/eimearzonecoach/]  💻 Website: eimearzone.com [http://eimearzone.com/] 📧  Email: hello@eimearzone.com  Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  © 2026 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

Introducing The Confidence Sessions: A New Way of Understanding Confidence

This summer I'm doing something different on the podcast. Every week I'll be releasing a short confidence session — a recorded meditation designed to be listened to daily. Save it, come back to it each morning, let it settle into you. Twelve weeks. Twelve sessions. A summer of quietly, powerfully coming home to yourself. But before the sessions begin, I want to share what confidence actually is. My definition — the one I've arrived at through years of coaching women and through my own long, imperfect journey — might surprise you. And there's some fascinating research on what confidence does in the body, in the brain, and in the lives of women specifically, that I think you'll find both illuminating and quietly infuriating. This is your invitation to a different kind of summer. One session at a time. Want to go deeper? Discover The Confidence Key, my eight-week coaching program: https://eimearzone.com/confidence-coaching/ Share Your Thoughts [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363172/fan_mail/new] CONNECT WITH EIMEAR  Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear:  Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach [https://www.instagram.com/eimearzonecoach/]  💻 Website: eimearzone.com [http://eimearzone.com/] 📧  Email: hello@eimearzone.com  Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  © 2026 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

The Ambition Penalty: Stefanie O'Connell on Why Ambitious Women Keep Getting Pushed Down

So many women are burned out, running on empty, and quietly wondering if they just need to try harder, speak up more, be more assertive, or do something differently. We've been implementing all the advice, and we're left exhausted and frustrated. I am joined this week by journalist and author Stefanie O'Connell, whose new book, The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up and Then Pushes Them Down, is out this month. It is thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, and a genuine revelation. We get into why so much of the advice women have been given has actually worked against us (shit!), what the data actually shows about ambition, negotiation, promotion, and pay, and why the burned-out, self-blaming loop so many of us are stuck in is not a personal failing. (Psst! It's a structural failing) This is the kind of conversation you're going to want to share — with your friends, your colleagues, your daughters. And then you definitely need to read this book and give a copy to another woman who needs this too. The Ambition Penalty is out now wherever you buy books.  Find it on Stefanie's site here: https://tooambitious.com/book/ Follow Stefanie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanieoconnell/ Subscribe to her Substack: https://tooambitious.substack.com/ Share Your Thoughts [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363172/fan_mail/new] CONNECT WITH EIMEAR  Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear:  Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach [https://www.instagram.com/eimearzonecoach/]  💻 Website: eimearzone.com [http://eimearzone.com/] 📧  Email: hello@eimearzone.com  Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  © 2026 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

The Good Girl Hangover

Have you ever followed all the rules and still felt vaguely hollow? Ever done everything right and wondered why it doesn't feel like yours? Ever woken up somewhere in midlife and realised the map you've been navigating by was never actually yours to begin with? Have you ever felt the exhaustion of being so easy to be around — and not been able to explain why that exhausts you? If any of that lands, this episode is for you. This week, I'm exploring one of the oldest and most quietly costly patterns in women's lives. The good girl script. Where it comes from, what it costs, and what happens in that disorienting in-between space when it starts to crack. We go deep on this one. To Sylvia Plath and the fig tree. To Kate Chopin, writing in 1899, about a woman daring to want her own life. To an instruction carved above the entrance to the Oracle at Delphi 2,500 years ago that we are still, somehow, only beginning to heed. This episode is also drawn from Chapter 3 of my book Choose Yourself — The Trouble with Being Good. Come for a walk with me on this one. Share Your Thoughts [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363172/fan_mail/new] CONNECT WITH EIMEAR  Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear:  Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach [https://www.instagram.com/eimearzonecoach/]  💻 Website: eimearzone.com [http://eimearzone.com/] 📧  Email: hello@eimearzone.com  Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  © 2026 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.

The Comparison Trap: Why Nothing You Do Ever Feels Like Enough

You achieved the thing, hit the goal, but somehow it still didn't feel quite enough. Meanwhile, someone else's success lands like a small deflation you can't quite explain, and you feel vaguely ashamed of both. This is one of the most raw and personal episodes I've recorded. That's because I lived this one deeply, and for a long time. In this episode, I get honest about where the comparison trap really comes from — long before social media handed it a megaphone — what it quietly costs you, and the only thing that has ever truly freed me from it. If nothing you do ever feels quite enough, then this one is for you. Share Your Thoughts [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2363172/fan_mail/new] CONNECT WITH EIMEAR  Free Resources and More: https://stan.store/eimearzone Explore Working With Eimear:  Book a Call: https://eimearzone.as.me/breakthrough 📱 Instagram: @eimearzonecoach [https://www.instagram.com/eimearzonecoach/]  💻 Website: eimearzone.com [http://eimearzone.com/] 📧  Email: hello@eimearzone.com  Subscribe to Girl, Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.  © 2026 Eimear Zone Coaching. All rights reserved.