Courage and Confidence
Are you looking for courage and confidence? Us too: Lee Iggulden is founder of Welshot Photographic Academy and Michelle Rogers of Thinking Space is her coach. Together, we’re building the courage and confidence we all need to make the difference we want to see, whether that’s in our work, our lives or our communities.
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Find Lee at:
Website: https://welshotimaging.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leeatwelshot/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lee.iggulden
Find Michelle at:
Web: https://www.thinkingspacecoaching.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingspacecoaching/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmichellerogers/
Music: Fun Happy Upbeat Travel Background Music for Videos
Composer: Sosin Mykola
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Courage and Confidence
Fitting In
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Courage and Confidence Podcast – Season 3, Episode 5: "Fitting In"
What happens when one photograph online sends your thoughts spiralling? In this wonderfully honest and personal episode, Lee shares how a single image from an event she'd chosen not to attend triggered a cascade of self-doubt — and asks the question so many of us quietly wrestle with but rarely say out loud: would I have fitted in?
What follows is a warm, candid and genuinely thought-provoking conversation in which Michelle gently unpicks the difference between fitting in and belonging — and why that distinction matters more than we might think.
Drawing on the research of Brené Brown, the poetry of Maya Angelou, and a rather unexpected detour into Enid Blyton and The Faraway Tree, Lee and Michelle explore:
- The difference between fitting in and belonging and why one costs you everything while the other asks nothing of you
- How a single image on social media can trigger a whole chain of limiting beliefs about age, appearance and self-worth
- The Faustian bargain of fitting in Brené Brown's powerful insight that if you win approval by pretending to be someone you're not, the hustle never stops
- Strong back, soft front, the courage to stand firm in who you are while remaining open, honest and vulnerable
- Why social media gives us an illusion of belonging and how the polished images we see (and post) may be doing more harm than we realise
- Lee's lightbulb moment and realising that the only thing standing between her and that event was a pair of clean jeans and a bit of mascara
- Those that mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind and why the people around Lee's birthday barbecue won't care one bit about her Crocs
This episode is a reminder that the most exhausting thing in the world is trying to be something you're not — and that the people who are truly your people will never ask you to.
🎧 Listen now — and ask yourself: where have you been trying to fit in, when you already belong?
Find Lee at:
- Website: https://welshotimaging.co.uk/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leeatwelshot/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lee.iggulden
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