3. Your Roles in Life

3. Your Roles in Life

Trina Gray, host of the Calm and Confident Podcast, shares a pivotal lesson learned in 2013 at a Franklin Covey Institute event about managing life roles. She emphasizes that roles are fluid and should not be overloaded, suggesting six key roles including self-care....
2. Own Your Time

2. Own Your Time

Trina Gray discusses time management using the Eisenhower Matrix, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing between important and urgent tasks. She highlights four quadrants: unimportant and not urgent (e.g., excessive social media scrolling), unimportant but...
1. Set Things Down

1. Set Things Down

In the very first episode of the Calm and Confident Podcast, I share my personal journey from journalist to fitness instructor to entrepreneur, and I open up about the powerful lesson of setting things down—learning to walk away from things that no longer bring joy or...
Endings are painful and beautiful

Endings are painful and beautiful

Chapter 2 – Disinheritance, Death and Unconditional Love. My dad passed away in a hospice bed in the wee hours of the morning on Christmas Eve, after a soul-crushing year of being a widower, and a tumultuous last few days at home. His bedroom was invaded by a...
Navigating Love and Change

Navigating Love and Change

Chapter 1 – Let the Words Fall Out. It’s the start that stops most people, including me. At times, I don’t know how to tell my story – should I write a book, or host a podcast? I bought a pretty rose gold microphone a few months ago. But it sits unopened on my...