The Driving Confidence Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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:

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 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:

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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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:

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

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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.

One-to-One Driving Confidence Coaching:

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.

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 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

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/

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

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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:

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/

Instagram:

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...