Act As If
Do You Really Have Imposter Syndrome… Or Is It Just Self-Doubt?
Do You Really Have Imposter Syndrome… Or Is It Just Self-Doubt?

If you’ve ever wondered whether you have imposter syndrome, you’re not alone. Impostor syndrome is the feeling that you’re not as capable or competent as others think you are—and that one day you’ll be “found out” as a fraud, despite evidence of your success.

Confidence Muscle
Confidence, Mental Health and Guarding Your Glow
Confidence, Mental Health and Guarding Your Glow

Confidence doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s closely linked to our mental health, boundaries, and the way we look after ourselves day to day. In this blog, I’m exploring how those pieces fit together – and what it really takes to “Guard Your Glow”, protect your confidence when life feels busy, pressured, or overwhelming

Confidence Muscle
Unlocking Authentic Confidence
Unlocking Authentic Confidence
Business
Everything DiSC®: What It Is and How It Helps
Everything DiSC®: What It Is and How It Helps

Everything DiSC®: What It Is and How It Helps If you’ve spent any time around me, you’ll know that I don’t use tools / models / frameworks unless I believe they can help us understand ourselves better, not because we need “fixing”, but because a little self awareness goes a long way towards building confidence, clearer communication, and better working relationships

Act As If
Why I hate fake it till you make it
Why I hate fake it till you make it
Business
How you can have confident marketing
How you can have confident marketing

Your confidence, marketing and being human! It’s a challenge when you run a business to always be confident in your marketing. How do you show what you’re selling, how you work, get new clients all while being human too.

Comfort Zone
What is People Pleasing?
What is People Pleasing?

People Pleasing Isn’t Kindness, It’s a Confidence Issue “I’m not a people pleaser, I’m just being kind.” It’s something I hear a lot, and if we’re honest, it’s something many of us have said about ourselves. Kindness and people pleasing can look similar on the surface, they come from very different places. One builds confidence. The other quietly erodes it.

Big Pants
Confidence as Your Competitive Edge
Confidence as Your Competitive Edge

What if I was to tell you that your CONFIDENCE can be your competitive edge in your business. If CONFIDENCE is a strategic asset – an important resource or capability that a business can leverage to achieve mission, goals, and a sustainable competitive advantage – then why wouldn’t you use it to help you and your business grow and gain more clients?

Inner Critic
Tame Your Inner Critic
Tame Your Inner Critic

The inner critic can be described as a chimp, an inner voice, self-talk, a monster. Overall, it’s the voice of self-doubt that you hear in your head.

Inner Critic
Reframing Negative Thinking to Build Confidence
Reframing Negative Thinking to Build Confidence

Negative thinking is a confidence demon – it’s easy to get into the spiral of negative thinking and can be a challenge to get out of it!

Comfort Zone
Exploring neurodiversity & it’s impact on Confidence
Exploring neurodiversity & it’s impact on Confidence

Exploring neurodiversity and its impact on confidence with Tamzin Hall from The Neurodiversity Academy.

Comfort Zone
Is confidence a state of mind?
Is confidence a state of mind?

Is confidence a state of mind or a state of flow? When I asked Ricky Locke during an episode of my Confidence Conversations podcast, what confidence meant to him and he replied with; “Confidence is like a state of flow”, it got me thinking...

Comfort Zone
Do you need COURAGE to have CONFIDENCE?
Do you need COURAGE to have CONFIDENCE?

What came first the courage or the confidence? It’s a bit like asking what came first the chicken or the egg? Do you need both of them? Is one more important that the other? So, you could argue that you can’t get to that feeling of confidence without having courage. And if confidence is something we have to practice, like anything we want to be good at, then you need a shot courage to give it a go, to make a start.

Big Pants
Why BIG PANTS are BIGGER than you might think
Why BIG PANTS are BIGGER than you might think

I talk A LOT about pulling up your BIG PANTS and just getting on with it in relation to building confidence.

Comfort Zone
Comparison vs Confidence
Comparison vs Confidence

How do we judge our worth and our abilities? Through comparison? What standards do we use, what criteria do we have for this? Is it by comparing our abilities and our worth with other people that we use comparison ultimately impacting our confidence?

Comfort Zone
How to confidently step out of your comfort zone
How to confidently step out of your comfort zone

Hanging around in your comfort zone won’t do you any favours. We all know about our comfort zone, you know it’s that space you like to hang out where you are in control, you know what’s going to happen...