Courageously Confident with Claire

Ep 33: Spilling the tea on dating as a Confidence Coach and navigating the modern dating world with Claire and Hayley Brown

The episode you have all been waiting for! We are SPILLING the tea, no holding back! You have been asking for a dating update from Claire, so she asked along her good pal and fellow podcast Host Hayley Brown from Inadequate Mother podcast to chat about their current experience on love, dating and relationships as confident women and single Mums. Episode highlights: - The reality of the 'weekend boyfriend' a scenario many Mum's attempting to date end up in and Hayley's love update. - Claire's update on dating (tea is spilled!) - Navigating break ups in your 30/s and 40s - Communication in dating and why it is a make or break situation - Hayley's big decision, does she stay or does she go.... - How dating can reflect back to us what we need to learn or change - How juggling it all with Motherhood can take the fun out of dating - The societal pressure to stay in relationships once your'e in 30/40s We can't wait for you to listen and give us your feedback, and more importantly your thoughts on Hayley's poll decision (poll below) please vote! Enjoy, Claire & Hayley xx

Ep 32: Lucie Dunrod-Simpson: Lucie's story, Building confidence while raising and advocating for a child with Autism

Lucie a Social Worker, Coach for parents of children with autism and Mother shares her Confidence story. We share how Lucie and I met way back when in 2006 in Australia, on the iconic Oz experience bus travelling up the East Coast together! We talk about how our friendship blossomed, the experiences we have shared together and how our friendship has grown as we have navigated life together from party girls in our 20s, to parents and Business owners. Moments to not miss in the episode: - Our sliding doors moment and how we met, both coming out of long term relationships and escaping to Australia for a new adventure. - How we bond more quickly with people when experiencing new places and moments together. - How Lucie moved into Mentoring and Coaching parents after her son was diagnosed with autism, and wanting to use her lived experience to help other parents navigate autistic burn out and needing additional support. - How so many adults have slipped through the net and are only getting diagnosed with autism or ADHD in adulthood which creates battles with low self-esteem due to never feeling like they fit in. - The importance of showing confidence when managing difficult situations with our children, to keep them feeling safe (even when we are learning along the way) - We discuss little Lucie and how her self-confidence was low due to self-image and how the 90s diet culture was toxic to children growing up around diet culture and feeling that she had to be smaller to be accepted. - Growing up in a single parent family in the 1980s and the stigma that came with that and how that impacted her sense of fitting in, as well as growing up without her Father being present in her life. - Lucie shares her pivotal confidence moments in moving to London and becoming a Social Worker, building a life for herself and making new friends. - How our vibe attract our tribe, and how it is so important for our mental health and confidence to surround ourselves with people that make us feel seen and that we belong. - Running a marathon and discovering her love of running, after feeling as a child like she wasn't sporty, and how the most confidence boosting things in adulthood are often the things as a child we never thought that we could do. - Lucie shares a golden nugget of advice at the end of the episode. Contact: Instagram: @theparentnook Website: www.parentnook.co.uk

Ep 31: Beyond the lens with Kayleigh King: Personal brand photograph and queen of motivating women to feel good, shares her Confidence story

Kayleigh King a personal brand photographer who helps bold leaders radiate big boss energy on camera comes onto the podcast. Kayleigh is passionate about making women feel comfortable and confident. - Kayleigh shares how her passion for photography started as a child. She spent her childhood feeling a little invisible with a brother that needed extra support and struggling with self-esteem during her school years. - We talk about her career journey and how she ended up in this field of work - Her confidence pivotal moments throughout her life that have shaped her. - Her confidence themes and where she can struggle to feel blocked. - A nugget of advice for those on a confidence journey Contact: Instagram: @wildkindphotography Website: www.wildkindphotography.com

Ep 30: Natasha Nyeke, Therapist, Coach & Host of The Imperfect Mum Podcast comes onto the podcast to share her journey with Motherhood, sharing her knowledge on breaking generational cycles

Natasha Nyeke is a therapist, coach, and host of The Imperfect Mum Podcast, where she helps mums break generational cycles and become the mum they needed. With a background as a family worker, Natasha saw firsthand how pivotal a mother’s well-being is to a child’s development. This led her to dedicate her career to supporting mums in healing their own wounds, developing self-awareness, and breaking free from perfectionism—so they can parent with confidence, rather than fear. Her work is rooted in growth mindset, self-compassion, and breaking cycles—because motherhood isn’t about getting it perfect, it’s about learning. Natasha believes we either win or we learn, and she teaches mums how to shift from guilt and self-doubt to self-trust and resilience. Natasha’s mission? To make it normal for mums to prioritize their own growth, to trust themselves as parents, and to break the cycles that no longer serve them—without guilt. Key conversation points: - How Natasha got into this line of work - We discuss anxiety in Motherhood and the impact that can have on our children's nervous systems - The block she often comes across in Mother's around resting, and struggling to make it a priority due to generational cycles where rest was not modelled to us by our parents. - How a habit can feel like another thing to do, and how to avoid this and not making it a chore - Natasha shares her ADHD brain and how she navigates work and life with a brain that can feel busy. - How to learn the skill of inner calm, with Natasha's " will it bother me in 5 yrs" question - Her love of law of attraction and how it totally changed her mindset from catastrophizing to manifesting. - Natasha share how she wasn't a confident child and never shared her feelings and she felt she was a burden if she did. - We discussed how having an anxious mind and catastrophizing can almost become your identity. - How to stop using our imagination to worry and instead use it to dream - How Natasha's rejection sensitivity nearly stopped her dating, but working through it led her to her husband. Contact details: 🎧 Listen to The Imperfect Mum Podcast | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-imperfect-mum/id1694284375 [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-imperfect-mum/id1694284375] 💡 Work with Natasha | link [https://www.natashanyeke.com/]

Ep 29, Christina Prokos share her psychic story and how that impacted her confidence journey leading her into the role guiding others through their shadow work and inner child healing

Meet Christina Prokos, a psychic intuitive who uses her gift to help others work through their shadow work and inner child healing. This conversation is fascinating, and we delve into many key moments: - Christina shares being a child with a psychic ability that struggled with feelings of not fitting in, struggling with feelings of isolation with Greek being her first language whilst living in Canada, dyslexia and her gift - all making her feel different and battle low self-esteem. - She fined tuned her psychic and medium ability wanting to do work with purpose. - Her journey of acceptance of having these gifts, and knowing what to do with the gifts without guidance and trusting in it. - She has being doing this work for the last decade, after trying other careers first. - She shares her pivotal confidence moments, one of them being giving her first reading, and confidence blocks she's had around female friendships. - Christina also shares her golden nugget of advice for women on a confidence journey. Contact details: - Christina's instagram: @christina_life_spiritual_ - Podcast: Soul Thrive Podcast