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Your Brain Is Sabotaging Your Confidence - Here’s How to Rewire It (with Holly Stokes)

03 March 2026 24:39 Dan Alexander

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Confidence isn’t a personality trait. It’s a brain habit.

In this episode, Dan Alexander sits down with Holly Stokes - The Brain Trainer - to explore how unconscious patterns, self-talk, and internal programming shape recruitment performance.

From wilderness therapy to NLP and hypnosis, Holly explains how the mind builds habits in the background and how those habits can either sabotage or supercharge your results.

You’ll learn:

  • Why your inner critic destroys confidence
  • How brain “trance states” affect your sales calls
  • The psychology behind self-sabotage
  • Why failure is just misframed learning
  • How to ask better questions to change your outcomes
  • The neuroscience behind confidence and performance

If you’re a recruiter struggling with confidence, performance anxiety, self-doubt, or plateaued billings, this episode will change how you see your mind.

Because confidence isn’t about forcing it. It’s about rewiring it.

The wonderful guest: Holly Stokes

Find her services at: thebraintrainerllc.com


🎙 Hosted by Dan Alexander
 Sponsored by ORCA – The Online Recruitment Coaching Academy

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