Callie Thorpe on Confidence and Community
Good Influence
Global
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Good Influence!
This is the podcast where each week we'll meet a guest who’ll help us pay attention to something we should know about, but maybe don’t.
This week, we're talking about confidence and community, the importance of having people to relate to, making confidence a practical thing, and how being gentle with ourselves sometimes means treating ourselves like somebody else.
Callie Thorpe is a writer, model, travel and fashion blogger who often shares about self-love on her social media channels. She's also founder of a community called The Confidence Corner, which posts on Instagram for us all to enjoy, but now also features a membership programme which aims to offer safe space for plus sized women.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Callie and her recommendations:
Instagram: @calliethorpe / @theconfidencecorner
Website: calliethorpe.com / theconfidencecorner.co.uk
Something to read: The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
Something to watch: BBC iPlayer - 'Shrill' / Netflix's 'Best Leftovers Ever!'
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| 0:34.0 | Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to another episode of Good Influence. |
| 0:37.9 | This is the podcast where each week you and I meet a guest who will help us pay attention |
| 0:41.7 | to something we should know about as well as answer some of your questions. |
| 0:45.5 | This week we're talking about confidence and community, the importance of having people to relate to, |
| 0:51.4 | making confidence a practical thing and how being gentle with ourselves sometimes means |
| 0:55.9 | treating ourselves like somebody else. |
| 0:58.6 | So joining me this week is Callie Thought. |
| 1:01.6 | Callie is a writer, model, travel and fashion blogger who often shares about self-love on her |
| 1:06.4 | social media channels. She's also founder of a community called The Confidence Corner, |
| 1:11.1 | which posts on Instagram for us all to enjoy, but now also features a membership program which |
| 1:15.6 | aims to offer a safe space for plus size women. |
| 1:18.6 | It's the variations that help lift us, you know, being sad helps us realise when we're happy |
| 1:25.2 | because we can reflect on the sadness. Being confident helps us look back when we're not |
| 1:29.7 | confident, see how much I've grown, like all those things are in, they all link and it's all part |
| 1:34.6 | of what makes us good and you know, functioning. |
| 1:39.7 | So I mean, we've just been having our, having a little chat about Love Island before we get |
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