Courageously Confident with Claire

Claire Elizabeth Wright

A podcast that explores the journey of confidence in women. Every week, a new interviewee shares their confidence story, looking at pivotal moments that shaped them, and developed them into the person that they are now. Learn to become your most authentically confident self by hearing the journeys of other women

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

    04/18/2025

    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

    41 min
  2. 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

    03/07/2025

    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💡 Work with Natasha | link

    51 min
  3. Ep 28: Confidence issues? Let's overthink it together! A special Q&A session with Claire Elizabeth Wright and Charlotte Jackson

    01/10/2025

    Ep 28: Confidence issues? Let's overthink it together! A special Q&A session with Claire Elizabeth Wright and Charlotte Jackson

    Confidence issues? Let's overthink it together! Join Claire and Charlotte for a special Q&A episode where we discuss and answer all of your confidence and self-esteem questions. Episode highlights: - Question: How do you keep confidence high after lots of rejections in dating? - We also delve into looking at ourself and going within when you have a repeated pattern in dating and relationships. (Claire and Charlotte share personal experiences) - Validation and self-esteem being impacted by social media flirtations (looking at insta story, slipping into DMs etc) we share how to stop caring. - Do you always attract people that seem to be wounded and not working on it? if so you could be stuck in a pattern which is impacting your relationship success, self-esteem and happiness. We answer this question. - Question: Is confidence something you are born with or is it based on environment you are in? - Question: I have a visible difference and sometimes my confidence crashes, how do I remain high vibe? - Question: I am co-dependant and have believed my significance and worth is in helping people. I feel lost when I am not helping others in the sense of my identity and self-worth, any advice? We answer all of these questions with our confidence coaching insight, real life experiences and tools you can use going forward to improve your self-esteem and confidence. Key words: Confidence, self-esteem, dating, relationships, co-dependency, visible difference, perfectionism, rescuer, fixer, care-taker. Contact info: Charlotte Jackson: Instagram, @Iamcharlottejackson Claire Elizabeth Wright: Instagram: @claire.elizabeth.coaching

    49 min
  4. Ep 27, Charlotte Jackson, Breaking Free: Charlotte, a Holistic Transformation Coach's journey from Addiction to Empowerment

    12/13/2024

    Ep 27, Charlotte Jackson, Breaking Free: Charlotte, a Holistic Transformation Coach's journey from Addiction to Empowerment

    Charlotte, a Holistic Transformation Coach bravely shares her story from addiction to crystal meth to becoming drug free with no rehab, and just a determination to live a better life and to connect to who she truly was. This is SUCH a powerful story and so much vulnerability, as well as looking at our childhood homes, the dynamics with our parents and how that can massively impact our self-worth, self-esteem and lead us into unhealthy patterns that do not serve us. Key highlights of the conversation: - Charlotte ending an engagement and walking away from a long-term relationship and bouncing straight into a toxic relationship with an addict. - The rapid spiral into self-sabotage and drugs when we feel lost and repress feeling our feelings. - The dramatic shift from being a woman who thought drugs were dirty and never touched them, to being a crystal meth addict, becoming homeless and living in a crack den. - We dig into her family history looking at generational trauma, and how traumas in our parent’s lives can have a knock-on effect into our patterns in relationships and love. - How child version of Charlotte was confident until age 8 when there were issues at home, and she kept getting her intuition of their being problems with her parents invalidated by them, which shook her sense of self and left her feeling ungrounded. This led into a pattern of craving love and connection and being in back to back relationships from 15 to gain validation. - How a conversation with a friend when he pointed out that she was a pushover, made her realise she’d been a people pleaser for life and start setting healthy boundaries and saying no more, and working out what she truly wanted. It is an episode not to be missed! Charlotte's Contact details: - Instagram: @Iamcharlottejackson - Podcast: Game Changer, with Charlotte Jackson

    1h 1m

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A podcast that explores the journey of confidence in women. Every week, a new interviewee shares their confidence story, looking at pivotal moments that shaped them, and developed them into the person that they are now. Learn to become your most authentically confident self by hearing the journeys of other women