The Confidence Rooms with Lucy Baker

Worryingly there are 14 million people in poverty in the UK and that figure is rising. In this episode I talk to Lizzy who founded The Hygiene Bank. Lizzy shares the facts around hygiene and confidence and how she understands confidence to be fundamental in unlocking potential in people. She talks about winging it, imposter syndrome, and what makes her feel confident . Tune in to find out more about how hygiene can affect your confidence.

Is being nervous okay? In this episode Catriona shares her feelings around nervousness, she talks about her role as a pretend undercover police officer on the London underground, her tips for helping colleagues with their confidence which include doing something that really scares you, how she doesn’t cope well with a quiet life and how the recent lockdown helped her to realise this and shares insight into how she coped with writing her first novel – The Matchmaker.

In this episode, Rebecca talks about her long and healthy modelling career and her attitude towards each modelling job she does, what it was like to be scouted at 16, her passion and love of dance, about body acceptance and body neutrality, and she shares how dating is the biggest test of her confidence.

In this episode I talk with the force behind Red January – Hannah Beecham. Hannah talks about how working on her passion project has been a big test but one that she is completely committed to, her experience of imposter syndrome and high level of nerves like never before, how talking to people that know her best is her way of having a boost when she needs it, and how she left a meeting and darted after a female REDer who ran past the café she was in – such a funny story. Hannah talks about the link between mental health and confidence and she shares her tips for confidence too, which are all brilliant.

Jo talks so passionately about confidence and in this episode she shares how she founded Guilty Mother, her passion for changing the future of young people via her wonderful Put Your Hands Up campaign, going into 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister to celebrate International Women’s Day, feeling crushed during trying to get a book deal, about how we are all role models in life and she shares her top tips for confidence.

In this episode I talk about my own experience of confidence and how finding confidence at 39-years-old was the best thing ever. I touch on some of the awful things that I used to tell myself, using alcohol for confidence, two excerpts from my real-life childhood diary and I share four great tips for confidence.

Superengage yourself and listen to this conversation with Nikki, who talks so brilliantly about confidence in business, Jacinda Ardern being a wonderfully connected and skilled leader, her book being based on how to have a riot at work, we each talk about a cringey interview question we have been asked, and Nikki talks about her experience of the menopause and her new venture Menopoised - which is going to change the lives of menopausal women the world over.

Grab a cuppa and listen to the melodic voice of Gayle Haddock who, in this episode, shares about her mother losing her confidence after having had a stroke, her experiences of phone fear as a child, how it was for her growing up as a chubby child, how taking things off your plate can be amazing for confidence in business and how she is open to love, light and opportunity, and what that means to her.

Running your own business can be an almighty challenge, but sisters Laura and Natalie have found that working with each other has been a major factor towards the success of Mum’s The Word, and their close sibling partnership is one of the reasons they both feel confident at work. In this episode, we talk about finding yourself again after motherhood, preparing for public speaking (including star jumps and channelling Beyonce!), the importance of connecting others and supporting mums, and each of them share their top tip for confidence.

The confidence and dedication you need to have to be a world class athlete is unquestionable, and Michelle knows all about this. In this episode, we talk about developing confidence from a young age and how the game knock down ginger was the catalyst to a long and successful athletics career, that took her to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, USA.  In this fab chat with Lucy, amongst other things, she talks about controlling the controllable, her mother being her Shero, her belief within herself and knowing that life isn’t excellence, and how being your own best friend is crucial for confidence.

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First episode coming Monday 13th July!

The Confidence Rooms podcast is an extension of Lucy’s work as an expert on confidence and in this series Lucy explores the fascinating, multi-faceted topic of confidence.

She shares insider insights into how it works (or for many of us, doesn’t), and what tools and practices will help to give yours a much-needed boost. Each episode, she will be talking to inspiring women from all walks of life to find out about their confidence highs and lows, and the ways in which their confidence affects their daily lives.

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