In this episode, Kev and Tracey are joined by Steve, who shares his journey of overcoming driving anxiety and building his confidence behind the wheel.

We chat about:

• His initial struggles with learning to drive
• His fear of driving on faster roads like the motorway 
• How he feels about driving now

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Have you had an early driving experience that knocked your confidence?
• Which areas of driving have you had the least experience with?
• What is your posture and body language when driving?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey chat to Nia from Nia's Gears, about how she shares content with learner drivers through social media.

We chat about:

• The ripple effect of sharing content
• How safe driving tips aren’t just for learner drivers 
• The difference between traditional and modern driver training

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Where is your go to place for driving help and information?
• How do you continue to keep your knowledge and understanding up to date?
• How often do you check your mirrors for Bob and Tom?

Follow Nia's Gears on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/people/Nias-Gears/100094731583401/

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

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Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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Bonus Short: From Episode 63 - Making the most of Driving Test waiting times

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/16d041

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about not moving off safely, one of the top ten reasons people fail their driving test.

We chat about:

• Common situations when you will be moving away
• The most common mistakes people make
• Effective observations

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How do you make sure you know it's safe to move away?
• What can you do to remember and make effective observations automatic?

The Ready to Pass campaign has been created to help ensure that you have prepared sufficiently for your driving test in response to the current pass rate, which has a 47% success rate.

Go to https://readytopass.campaign.gov.uk for more information about the campaign.

To read the official information about the top ten reasons for failing the driving test go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test-in-great-britain

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to Fiona Fraser about some of her driving experiences. Fiona helps people with PR for their podcasts and mentioned that she had some stories of her own to share while chatting with us!

We chat about:

• Fiona's experiences as a learner driver
• How she didn't feel confident after passing her test - and yet decided to drive to Italy!
• The challenges of buying a new car and the impact it has had on her driving confidence

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Have you taken a driving test when you didn't feel ready?
• Are there any occasions when other people have made you doubt yourself?
• How do you deal with feelings of nerves and anxiety related to driving?
• What strategies could you put in place to help you?

If you would like to get in touch with Fiona for advice about PR for your podcast, you can find her at:

https://www.powpr.co.uk/

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about incorrect positioning when turning right at junctions, one of the top ten reasons people fail their driving test.

While this information is important in relation to passing your driving test, it is also important to recognise that each of these reasons is also connected to accident statistics and becoming a safe driver on the road for as long as you hold a driving license.

We chat about:

• Common situations that result in positioning faults
• The reason why incorrect positioning is a problem

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Have you experienced being in the wrong lane when you want to turn right?
• Are there any local roads or one-way streets where this may be relevant for your test?
• What can you do to remember and start rehearsing your lane positioning in those areas?

The Ready to Pass campaign has been created to help ensure that you have prepared sufficiently for your driving test in response to the current pass rate, which has a 47% success rate.

Go to https://readytopass.campaign.gov.uk for more information about the campaign.

To read the official information about the top ten reasons for failing the driving test go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test-in-great-britain

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey round-up Season Two by reflecting on our main takeaways and favourite moments across the episodes.

We chat about:

• Why driving independence is a subject we will keep coming back to
• Our expert and driving guests 
• Our Driving Confidence Challenge

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Did you relate to any of our guests?
• What was your main takeaway message across the season?
• Was there anything you intended to try? And how have you got on with it?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about not using mirrors correctly when changing direction, one of the top ten reasons people fail their driving test.

While this information is important in relation to passing your driving test, it is also important to recognise that each of these reasons is also connected to accident statistics and becoming a safe driver on the road for as long as you hold a driving license.

We chat about:

• Occasions when you change direction
• How to use your mirrors
• Why it's important

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How effectively do you use your mirrors
• How do you know it's safe to change direction?
• What can you do to start improving your mirror observations?

The Ready to Pass campaign has been created to help ensure that you have prepared sufficiently for your driving test in response to the current pass rate, which has a 47% success rate.

Go to https://readytopass.campaign.gov.uk for more information about the campaign.

To read the official information about the top ten reasons for failing the driving test go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test-in-great-britain

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added...

In this episode, we catch up with David from episode 12 and congratulate him on passing his recent driving assessment.

We chat about:

• The action plan that David put into place to help him pass
• How he managed his mindset 
• What advice he would give to others who are struggling to pass

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• What could you change or do differently to get a different result?
• What mindset habits, thoughts or assumptions might be getting in your way?
• Do you feel driving test ready, and if you do, remind yourself how and why?
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Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

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Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about effective driving observations, one of the top ten reasons people fail their driving test.

This episode is a duplicate of an episode in our new spin-off podcast series Driving Test Tips.  We are creating the new stand-alone series based on the information the DVSA publish about the Top Ten Reasons people fail their driving test.  While this information is important in relation to passing your driving test, it is also important to recognise that each of these reasons is also connected to accident statistics and becoming a safe driver on the road for as long as you hold a driving license.

We chat about:

• What we mean by effective observations
• The most common times that people fail to make observations 
• Why are effective observations so important for keeping you safe on the road, not just for your driving test

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How effectively are you looking while driving?
• How well are you able to judge the speed of oncoming traffic?
• Did you know about the connection between driving test competencies and accident statistics? 
• What can you do to start improving your driving observations?

The Ready to Pass campaign has been created to help ensure that you have prepared sufficiently for your driving test in response to the current pass rate, which has a 47% success rate.

Go to https://readytopass.campaign.gov.uk for more information about the campaign.

To read the official information about the top ten reasons for failing the driving test go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test/top-10-reasons-for-failing-the-driving-test-in-great-britain

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online...

In this episode, Kev and Tracey start Season Three by discussing how adding a bit of detective work into your driving can help you build your driving confidence.

We chat about:

• What we mean by detective work
• Three questions that can help you start this habit 
• How it can help improve your driving 
• How it can help you reflect on your driving confidence

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Does the idea of being a detective resonate with you?
• Do you already do it? Can you think of a time when it helped you?
• Does anyone else have spidey senses?
• If you struggle with driving confidence, have you reflected on your driving story and been curious about how your experiences may have shaped your thinking habits?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey round-up Season Two by reflecting on our main takeaways and favourite moments across the episodes.

We chat about:

• Why driving independence is a subject we will keep coming back to
• Our expert and driving guests 
• Our Driving Confidence Challenge

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Did you relate to any of our guests?
• What was your main takeaway message across the season?
• Was there anything you intended to try? And how have you got on with it?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to Steph Davies from Neon Driving School in Liverpool about her new calming driving test nerves workshop.

We chat about:

• Why Steph chose to learn more about X-Hail techniques
• How X-Hail meditation methods take a different approach
• The feedback Steph got for the trial run of her workshop
• Steph’s story about learning to drive

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Does your idea of meditation differ from Stephs description?
• Does using different types of modern music make the idea of meditation feel more accessible?
• Have you been put of stress management techniques in the past because you didn’t feel they were for people like you?

Ways to get in touch with Steph at Neon Driving School:

https://www.facebook.com/NeonDrivingSchool/

https://instagram.com/neondrivingschool

Email: contact@neondrivingschool.co.uk

Mobile: 07730161359

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

Bonus Short: From Episode 62 - Have you got a driving action plan?

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/16b4d5

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey have a chat about hill starts as it’s a topic which has come up with our two recent guests.

We chat about:

• Why do people worry about hill starts
• What you need to do to make sure you only move forward
• Our advice about practising

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Do hill starts concern you when driving?
• Do you avoid certain routes to avoid hills?
• How confident do you feel about finding your biting point?
• Where would be a suitable place for you to start practising?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to Mangala Holland about her inspirational story of returning to driving after thirty years following an accident shortly after passing her driving test.

We chat about:

• Mangala’s driving story
• The difference between driving lessons in the eighties and now
• What advice would Mangala give to her younger self
• What advice would Mangala give to anyone who has avoided driving

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Does Mangala’s story resonate with you in any way?
• If you’ve been avoiding driving, what would spur you into deciding to restart?
• If you are learning to drive, what questions would be useful for you to ask your instructor?

Find out more about Mangala's driving instructor for her motorway lessons:

Teresa Verel at Drive TV School of Motoring

https://www.facebook.com/TeresaVerelADI/

https://www.instagram.com/drivetvmini/

Find out more about Mangala's work as a Women's Sexuality Coach:

https://mangalaholland.com

https://www.facebook.com/mangalatantrika

https://www.instagram.com/mangalaholland

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence...

In this episode, Kev and Tracey speak to Kim, who has been driving for sometime, but due to past events, struggles to drive on the motorway or dual carriageways.

We chat about:

• Kim's story and why she no longer drives on the motorway or dual carriageway
• Kim's specific concerns about having to stop or queue on a hill
• How using a Sat Nav may help her to drive in unfamiliar areas without worrying about the motorway
• How to practice her clutch control so that he has more confidence in her ability
• Potential first steps that she could take to practice driving on the dual carriageway

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Do you have any areas in driving that you avoid?
• What are the basic skills that you could practice to boost your confidence?
• What first steps might feel manageable for you?
• Where can you find out more about tasks you need help with?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey discuss the importance of driving independence for driving test confidence and confidence in driving alone once you’ve passed your driving test.

We chat about:

• What we mean by independent driving
• Why it’s important to ensure you are making your own driving decisions
• Questions you might be asking if you aren’t independent

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How do you feel about driving alone after passing your driving test?
• Are you independent in some driving tasks and not others?
• Are you asking for help out of habit or because you don’t know the information?
• Where can you find out more about tasks you need help with?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey discuss driving automation, following an event they attended at Nottingham Trent University about Young Drivers Training needs.  The event had a theme around driving automation and the most recent research about what will be needed in terms of training and driver acceptance.

We chat about:

• The different levels of automation
• What assistance aids modern cars currently feature in level one
• How they might help you be a safer driver

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How do you feel about driving automation or driving assistance aids?
• What driving assistance aids does your car have?
• Which driving assistance aids would help you the most?
• Where can you find out more about how to use them?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev & Tracey continue with the driving confidence challenge!  This is the final part of 3 episodes with different tasks to carry out each week to help you build your driving confidence.

Week Three involves:

• 1. Deciding a time that feels most comfortable to drive your route.
• 2. Deciding if you would like a passenger or to drive alone.
• 3. Driving the route. 
• 4. Celebrate with a reward!
• 5. Repeat the route, driving it multiple times until it feels more manageable.
• 6. Consider switching it up by driving it when it's busy, dark, or raining.

Let us know how you get on, how it has helped and how you have celebrated using the hashtags #drivingconfidencechallenge and #practicemakesbetter

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev & Tracey continue with the driving confidence challenge!  This is part two of 3 episodes with different tasks to carry out each week to help you build your driving confidence.

Week Two involves:

1. Walking your chosen route and noticing what you notice

2. If possible be a passenger on your chosen route. Notice all the details about lanes, traffic lights, roundabouts, and junctions.  What are other road users doing? Ask the driver about their decisions and why they are doing what they are doing.

3. Use this information about your route to then create a finely detailed visualisation of you driving the route.  And repeat it as many times as possible in your mind over the next week.

That’s it for part two, so get visualising your route and commit to taking these baby steps towards building your driving confidence!

Let us know what route you choose and why using the hashtags #drivingconfidencechallenge and #practicemakesbetter

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

In this episode Kev & Tracey have decided to start a driving confidence challenge! This will run over 3 episodes with different tasks to carry out each week to help you build your driving confidence.

Week One involves:

1. Planning a route that you would like to be able to drive confidently. This might be school, work, the gym, the shops, make it small enough to be achievable.
2. Think about the difference it will make to be able to drive this route confidently. What will it mean for you? Write it down.
3. Start to think about your route and what are the hotspots that make you feel nervous or anxious? Use Google maps to work out where all the junctions, traffic lights and roundabouts are. What information do you need to find out so that you would feel more confident driving that route?

Thats it for part one, so get planning your route and commit to taking these baby steps towards building your driving confidence!

Let us know what route you choose and why using the hashtags #drivingconfidencechallenge and #practicemakesbetter

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

In this episode, Kev and Tracey follow on from the last episode about learning to drive feeling like it takes a long time, and discuss the benefits of practising driving.

We chat about:

• How extra practice can build your confidence
• What to practice
• Why practising makes driving feel more natural and automatic

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How much driving practice do you get?
• What driving tasks are out of your comfort zone that you could practice more?
• Which parts of your driving feel natural and automatic and how can those elements help you with the parts that don’t yet feel comfortable?
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Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey respond to a question from a listener about how long it takes to learn to drive because it feels like it is going to take forever with only a 1-hour lesson each week.

We chat about:

• How you can make the most of each driving lesson
• What you can do between driving lessons to increase your learning
• Why using observations as a passenger is helpful

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• How much effort have you put into learning to drive between lessons?
• What do you usually do with your passenger time on journeys?
• Who do you know who is a good driver, and why?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/drivingconfidencecoaching

Leave us a Tip / Buy us a coffee:

https://driving-confidence-podcast.captivate.fm/support

Follow or contact us on Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/

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Bonus Short: From Episode 61 - The Power of Storytelling for your driving confidence

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/1694c9

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This episode is Part Two of the interview with Matt Adams at Marmalade Network about the results of a survey that Marmalade Insurance carried out among learner drivers, newly qualified drivers, and supervising parents regarding aggression towards learner drivers on the road.

We chat about:

• How experiences of abuse and intimidation have affected learner's driving
• Who are the most common culprits of abuse
• The petition that has been created following the survey
• The types of services Marmalade can offer young drivers

If you would like to find out more about Marmalade insurance, the survey or the resulting petition you can do that below.

Marmalade Insurance Home Page: https://www.wearemarmalade.co.uk

Marmalade Enquiries: 0333 358 3441

Survey results blog article: https://www.wearemarmalade.co.uk/driver-hub/news/dangerous-driving-around-learner-drivers

Petition link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617180

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

• Whether your confidence has been influenced by your past experiences
• Have you adapted your driving habits to avoid certain situations?
• How can you prepare in advance for finding yourself in a difficult situation

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

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Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey chat to Matt Adams at Marmalade Network about the results of a survey that Marmalade Insurance carried out among learner drivers, newly qualified drivers, and supervising parents regarding aggression towards learner drivers on the road.

We chat about:

• How often learners experienced incidents of abuse and imidation
• Where these events occured most often
• And how tailgating, overtaking aggressively, and beeping were the most common types of abuse experienced
• Along with a few of our tips for what to do if you find yourself in that position.

If you would like to find out more about Marmalade insurance, the survey or the resulting petition you can do that below.

Marmalade Insurance Home Page: https://www.wearemarmalade.co.uk
Marmalade Enquiries: 0333 358 3441
Survey results blog article: https://www.wearemarmalade.co.uk/driver-hub/news/dangerous-driving-around-learner-drivers
Petition link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617180

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

Do you relate to any of the scenarios we chat about?
How did it make you feel?  
What advice would you give to others?
How do you think you will react to learner drivers in the future when you are the experienced, confident driver?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey reflect on the learning curve of starting a podcast and also which have been their favourite episodes in Season One.

Kev’s favourite episodes include the one about his blindfolded driving experience as he can reflect back on the experience at a later date and also the episode about not letting stalling the car stop you, as several of his pupils have said they found it useful and have been putting it into practice during lessons and driving practice.

Tracey’s favourite episodes include why talking to yourself isn’t as mad as it seems as she has had people mention to her that they notice talking to themselves during difficult driving situations helps.  And also the episode with Terry Cook as she has had messages from people who have found his podcasts helpful for their driving too.

Both Kev and Tracey reflected on the episodes that told a story and feel that those were relatable to others who are struggling with driving nerves, stress or anxiety and so they hope to incorporate more stories from others in future seasons.

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:
Are there any episodes we mention that you would like to catch up on?
Which episode has been most relatable to your driving experience?
What would you like us to cover in future episodes?

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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In this episode, Kev describes trying a blindfolded driving experience with the amazing charity Speed of Sight. Kev describes the range of emotions he experienced and how he now has a better appreciation not only of the work that Speed of Sight does but also how he has a better appreciation of what it is like to feel stressed and panicky while behind the wheel.

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

If you feel nervous, scared or panicky while driving, what are your stress symptoms?
Do you recognise when the logical part of your brain starts to shut down?
What strategies have you found that work for you?

Find out more about the Speed of Sight Charity on their website: https://www.speedofsight.org
Speed of Sight Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/speedofsight/
Speed of Sight YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdZlzjEFH72lUBxojHbS0Kw

Go to our YouTube channel to see a short video of Kev’s driving experience: Kev Field Blindfold drive with Speed of Sight Charity

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to Penny Ling who is a hypnotherapist who has overcome her own driving phobia and didn't drive for 13 years.  She now drives confidently, as well as helping other people to overcome their own driving fears.

Penny describes how her family background, stress levels and a series of unfortunate events built up to her stopping driving.  How she tried hypnotherapy and it didn't work, before embarking on a career change as a hypnotherapist, resulting in her returning to driving and writing a book to help others.

While listening to this episode, ask yourself:

Are your driving fears made worse by your general stress levels?

How full is your stress bucket?

What driving experiences have you had that may have reduced your driving confidence?  Are they related to your driving skill or something else?

What techniques have you employed so far to build your driving confidence?

If you would like to find out more about working with Penny you can visit her website: https://www.oxford-hypnotherapy.co.uk

And you can find her book Driving Me Crazy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Driving-crazy-Overcome-fear-driving-ebook/dp/B089T5S3GS

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May 22) and so we thought we would share one of our relaxation exercises to help support anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by their thoughts.  

Please do not listen to this exercise while driving!

This exercise helps you visualise putting your thoughts on leaves on a stream and allowing them to float away.  While the exercise is not related to driving, it may be helpful to allow you to reset or relax before driving, helping you to feel calmer and more in control, ready to give your attention to your driving instead of your thoughts.

Resources:

The Mental Health Foundation has a range of resources available to help you look after your mental health which you can find on this link: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/your-mental-health/looking-after-your-mental-health

The charity Mind has resources for helping yourself and helping others: https://www.mind.org.uk

Mental Health UK have some great downloadable resources including a stress bucket: https://mentalhealth-uk.org/help-and-information/downloadable-resources/

And Time to Change signposts other support services and helplines: https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/mental-health-and-stigma/help-and-support

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk to David, one of our podcast listeners who got in touch for some advice about their upcoming driving assessment. 

Kev took David through an NLP timeline technique, asking him to imagine himself in the different stages during the run-up to the assessment, asking him how he felt and what techniques he could use at each stage.

Tracey chipped in by asking about body sensations and whether they were interpreted positively or negatively and also tweaked one of David's techniques slightly to remember him driving successfully to help him feel more confident.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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In this episode, Tracey goes solo to talk about breathing exercises.  She starts by exploring the potential downsides of breathing exercises and why they are not for everyone.  Before moving on to the advantages of breathing exercises and describing a few simple versions to try. 

For anyone who is interested in trying the breathing exercises mentioned to help calm driving nerves, they are all available as part of our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about an experience this week that got them thinking about the difference between knowing and understanding something.

They discuss how you can see and hear the same piece of information multiple times, and yet when someone else says it in a different way, it can just click and become clearer and you understand in a different way.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey speak to their first guest, Terry Cook who is the host of several podcasts, including Driving Test Tales and 5 Minute Theory.

We talk to Terry about his motivation behind his podcasts, who they might help and why we think that they are a great resource for anyone who would like to build their driving confidence.

Terry shares some stories from his students and also about his own experiences of driving tests, including getting in the wrong car on his own driving test!

We also talk about reasons you might consider changing your driving instructor, how keeping revising your theory can help with your driving and Terry’s takeaway tip for anyone struggling with self-doubt in their lessons.

While you are listening to this episode, consider who you know that might find one of Terry’s podcasts, or indeed this podcast useful and consider sharing with them.

You can find all of Terry’s links to his podcasts, social media and theory test training resources on his website: https://www.tcdrive.co.uk or do a search for Driving Test Tales and Five Minute Theory wherever you get your podcasts.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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Bonus Short: From Episode 58 - Checking your driving understanding

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/164199

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

The Drive Calm Journal:

A Twelve-Week Prompt Journal for Anxious Drivers - available to buy in all formats on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/hdrzRKj

Get help from Kev and Tracey at Confident Drivers:

Sign up for our free weekly newsletter that includes a tip of the week plus the latest news and podcast episode: Sign up Here

Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about tips around body language and posture for helping to calm driving nerves.

Kev talks about the clues that a student's body language give him, and how when a student becomes stressed or tense it has a knock-on effect on their driving and performance. He also talks about how this stress can sometimes be a clue that a student has a gap in their knowledge or understanding about the driving task that is making them feel stressed.  

Tracey talks about power posing, good posture to allow your body to breathe freely, how to relax tense muscles, pandiculation and smiling as ways of calming down the body's response to stress.

If you would like to hear more about power posing here is a link to Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk - https://youtu.be/Ks-_Mh1QhMc

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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In this episode, Kev and Tracey talk about stalling the car.

Kev talks about why we stall and what to do when we stall and explains more about what the clutch does and why we should view the clutch as our friend, not the enemy!

Tracey confesses to still stalling despite driving for years, and why she feels its something people should practice so it stops being something stressful, and instead is viewed as just a minor annoyance.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

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Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Kev and Tracey continue on from the previous episodes and discuss their suggestions for how to manage nerves if you have one day to go until your driving test.

Kev talks about the driving lesson before your test and also about talking to yourself out loud on the lesson and the driving test.

Tracey reminds about replaying playing mind movies mentioned in the previous episodes as well as noticing your posture and how it affects your breathing and try smiling before meeting the examiner.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Confident Drivers website:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/solutions/nervous-drivers1

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Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Kev and Tracey continue on from the previous episode and discuss their suggestions for how to manage nerves if you have one week to go until your driving test.

Kev talks about making sure you have everything you need ready in advance of the day of the test, and that also you find out what exactly will happen on the day by speaking to your instructor about what happens at the test centre.

Tracey reminds about replaying playing mind movies mentioned in the previous episode as well as suggesting that now is a good time to practice breathing exercises, in advance of the test and also suggesting that some people might find hypnotherapy audios useful.

Kev then talks about a game he plays with students who are worried about the driving test examiner, which can help them look at the driving test from a different perspective.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Confident Drivers website:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

We have two hypnotherapy audios available in our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/solutions/nervous-drivers1

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Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Kev and Tracey discuss their top tips for how to tackle nerves and prepare for your driving test when you have one month to go.

Kev talks about ways to look at your driving strengths and weaknesses so that you can plan how to best use the time before your test and suggests using the coaching wheel, a reflective log, mock tests and planning your remaining lessons.

Kev and Tracey discuss what the examiner is looking for when they assess your driving to ensure that you are safe, confident and competent and ready to drive on your own post-test, demonstrating that you can drive independently, making your own decisions without help being important.

Tracey also talks about how you can use imagery techniques such as creating mind movies to build your confidence in between driving lessons.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Confident Drivers website:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/solutions/nervous-drivers1

Follow or contact us on Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confidentdrivers/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVucIvyC_2AX33zNL7-yoQ

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Kev and Tracey discuss why talking to yourself while driving isn’t as mad as it might seem, and why talking yourself through difficult driving tasks can help you to feel calmer and keep your attention focused on what you are doing.

Psychological research in child development, education and sports people suggests that private self talk can help to regulate emotions and improve performance so it seems logical that this can also be applied into driving scenarios.

Kev talks about the benefits for him as an instructor when a students talks through a task aloud in driving lessons and suggests this might also be useful for those who practice driving between lessons with parents and others.  Kev and Tracey also discuss using self talk as a strategy for the driving test.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Confident Drivers website:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/solutions/nervous-drivers1

Follow or contact us on Social Media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confidentdrivers/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVucIvyC_2AX33zNL7-yoQ

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Tracey will introduce you to a mindfulness technique that can help you interrupt negative thoughts within a minute or two, and help get you in the right mindset for driving so that you are paying attention to now, before you drive, instead of paying attention to your thoughts.

This technique is great for anybody who is having negative thoughts about their driving, and also if you've had a busy day and are feeling distracted instead of paying attention to your driving.  The exercise will help to reset your mind and bring you back to paying attention to the present moment, exactly where you need to be before you go driving. 

We recommend that you do this before you drive.  So please don't try this while you're driving.

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confidentdrivers/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVucIvyC_2AX33zNL7-yoQ

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

In this episode, Kev and Tracey introduce you to their favourite tool for confidence-building which is the coaching wheel.  Based on the popular wheel of life, Kev and Tracey adapted the wheel for learner drivers preparing for their driving test and also for drivers who want to identify their driving strengths and weaknesses and create an action plan to improve their driving.  They discuss how to use the coaching wheel for driving and what to do if your wheel is wonky!

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

You can request a free download of the coaching wheel, along with an instructional video on how to use it on our website at https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confidentdrivers/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVucIvyC_2AX33zNL7-yoQ

Welcome to our very first episode of The Driving Confidence Podcast.  This is our trailer and introduction to the podcast and to us. 

We want to transform the way you feel about your driving and build your driving confidence so this podcast will be looking at ways to manage and calm your nerves, stresses and anxieties around driving.

You might be listening to this if you are a learner driver who is feeling nervous about your lessons, or have your driving test coming up soon and are looking for some hints and tips. Maybe you've already passed your driving test, but feel nervous when you drive or perhaps you passed your test years ago, but never really built up your driving confidence.

Kev is a driving instructor, as well as training people to become driving instructors and providing courses and training to driving instructors to help them become the best in the driver training industry.  He is also an NLP practitioner, personal development and business coach.  

Tracey is not a driving instructor. Her background is in holistic therapists, mindfulness and stress management and she recently completed a psychology degree with The Open University.  Kev and Tracey combined their skills and experience to create the Confident Drivers website which offers nervous drivers a range of resources to help them build their confidence and beat driving nerves and anxiety. 

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about our resources:
Free tools on our website: https://www.confidentdrivers.co.uk/freetools

And follow us on social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/confidentdriver/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confidentdrivers/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVucIvyC_2AX33zNL7-yoQ

Bonus Short: From Episode 56 - How much effort do you put into your driving?

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/160930

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

Bonus Short: From Episode 54 - How journalling can help you with your driving goals with guest Emma Cottington

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/15cca9

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

Bonus Short: From Episode 45 - Driving Confidence Coaching with Rosie

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/156dca

Would you like to feature in a future Q&A podcast?  Do you have a story that others might relate to? You can record a question about driving nerves or confidence that you would like us to answer on our Speak Pipe page.  If you have a question, then there are likely to be others with the same or similar question so ask away and let's start helping more people to build their driving confidence! https://www.speakpipe.com/TheDrivingConfidencePodcast

Find out more about how we can help transform the way you feel about driving and follow us on social media:

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Try one of our most popular tools, the Confident Drivers Coaching Wheel, to help you identify your driving strengths and weaknesses and see if you are driving test-ready: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/coachingwheel-testready

Are you ready to stop the search on social media and start taking action to overcome your driving concerns? Our Nervous Drivers Calming Kit has the online tools and video guides you need to master your driving anxiety. Get immediate access, starting from just £27

Nervous Drivers Calming Kit: https://confident-drivers.newzenler.com/courses/nervous-drivers-calming-kit

Do you know that you would like some individual support from us, to create a personalised plan with our help and added accountability to take action? Then our Driving Confidence coaching will help, we offer four different levels of help to suit your needs.

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Bonus Short: From Episode 43 - Mindfulness and driving with guests Steph Davies and San Harper

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/153af6

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

Bonus Short: From Episode 41 - Beware of the driving stories you tell yourself with guest Benjamin Ryan

Link to Full Episode: https://pod.fo/e/150256

Mentioned in this episode:

Find our Drive Calm Journal on Amazon

* Do you avoid driving whenever possible? * Do you feel like the only person who is anxious about driving? * Would you like to drive wherever you want, whenever you want? * Are you ready to take action to improve your driving confidence? Follow the prompts, questions, exercises and reflections each week to create your own goal based action plan to work on your driving mindset. Created by Kev & Tracey Field to help anxious drivers take action and track their progress over twelve weeks based on our unique Drive Calm® System, you set your own goals so you can work at your own pace.

Drive Calm Journal on Amazon