Public Speaking

Delivering a session on how to develop a personalized business vision to female business owners in London.

New year is the perfect time to explore what you want to achieve in the year ahead so that you can move intentionally towards achieving your goals.

Developing your confidence, cultivating a mind-set that the whole world is conspiring to help you if only you are clear what you want help with, naïve as it might sound, can be critically important for success. Otherwise self-sabotaging behaviours, competing commitments, your inner critic, perfectionism etc. will get in your way.

There is a lot written nowadays about a so-called Law of Attraction, which declares that you attract into your life what you focus on. There is also a lot written about manifesting success and manifesting money in order to attract money.

And although I do take it all with a pinch of salt, as any law of attraction, most importantly needs to be supported by the Law of Action, I do believe that acting as if you already have what you want to have is of a paramount importance.

Delivering a session on Growth Mindset and overcoming limiting beliefs to female entrepreneurs in Newport.

What we achieve in life starts with our beliefs and our mindset. As Gandhi pointed out, we manifest our beliefs and this is often how others experience us. If we subliminally project our limiting beliefs, those things which we see as obstacles to our success, our potential clients may pick up on this and are less likely to buy from us. However, to the contrary, if we project success, our clients are more likely to believe that we can help them to also become successful.

Many women feel uncomfortable about manifesting success and money, which goes back to our upbringing, education and societal norms. Girls are typically encouraged to be polite and care about being liked, rather than being successful. Cultural differences and generational ones apply here, but I often still see a lot of this attitude in the UK.

Let me ask you - when talking about women, what is the next word which immediately pops into your head after the word “rich”?

Delivering a session on Self-Confidence in Cheltenham.

I was pleased to be invited to do a series of talks about Self-Confidence. Today in Cheltenham; London and Gloucester to follow over the next two weeks.

A rewarding experience of knowledge sharing and doing some practical work with a group of inspired entrepreneurs.

Self-confidence. How many of us wish we could have more of it? How many of us act out our aspirational confident selves hiding like the Wizard of Oz behind a curtain of confidence our more vulnerable selves?

Hardly anybody has enjoyed a seamless stream of success. Life inevitably unfolds its challenges as well as triumphs. When we are on a roll, even setbacks can be easily overcome and forgotten as our positive momentum pushes us forward. However when our luck turns and we go through times when it feels that nothing works, our skin becomes thinner and we tend to dwell on failures, sometimes imaginary, and overanalyse things.

It is reassuring to remember that self-confidence is a skill, and one that can be developed!

“Do I need to box in my negative experiences in order to become more confident?” - was one of the questions asked following my talk on Confidence for female business founders in Wimbeldon.

My answer is - absolutely not! Owning our stories, including the ones that we are not proud of, embracing our vulnerabilities is essential for feeling comfortable in our own skin. I believe that authenticity is a key prerequisite to feeling confident and projecting confidence.

We need to develop the skill and the attitude of reframing our negative experiences and learning from them, rather than trying “to box them in”. They are as integral a part of us as our successes!