From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: Building Self-Connection with Jacq Gould
In this episode, I sit down with Jacq Gould — founder of Your Inner Babe, teacher, speaker, and creator of a global movement devoted to helping women return to themselves — for one of the most grounding conversations I've had on this show.
Jacq's work is built on a simple but radical premise: self-connection is not innate. It is a skill. And from the second we are born, we are taught how to connect to everyone else — while being left entirely on our own to figure out how to connect to ourselves.
Her Reconnection Deck, group programs, and retreats give women a way to close that gap. To stop outsourcing their worth, their decisions, and their sense of self to the world around them — and build a foundation so solid that even the darkest seasons don't shake them loose from themselves.
We talk about what disconnection actually looks like in everyday life, the micro actions that can start shifting things immediately, why group healing carries a specific magic that one-on-one work can't replicate, and how self-connection becomes the base of every relationship and decision you'll ever make.
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Key insights:
Why self-connection is a skill we're never taught — and how to start building it
The signs of disconnection hiding in plain sight: anxiety, people-pleasing, overwhelm
Self-connection as the foundation of everything: trust, confidence, worth, resilience
The language audit: "I have to" vs "I get to" — a micro shift with a macro effect
Finding connection points in what you already do — no new routine required
The Reconnection Deck: 50 affirmations pulled from Jacq's own meditation practice
Into Me, You See: a connection game designed to bring depth to your closest relationships
Why group healing works — and the medicine that comes from being truly seen
Social media, comparison + using it as a tool without letting it use you
The bounce-back rate: how a strong inner foundation shortens recovery from hard seasons
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The conversations don’t end here, they ripple into real life.
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