Work Series: If you're feeling low in confidence, listen to this - with Lauren Currie

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Welcome back to our special Motherkind Mini Work Series A 2022 LinkedIn survey found that 67% of women reported a “significant” drop in confidence when returning to work after maternity leave. Today’s guest is one the leading thinkers on confidence and women. Lauren Currie OBE is the founder of UPFRONT - Named by Elle Magazine as one of 30 Women Under 30 Changing the World, and by Management Today as top 35 UK businesswomen under 35 and she is on a mission to boost confidence for 10,000,000 women worldwide. In this episode you are going to learn: What real confidence is - it’s NOT something you have or don’t have - it’s a skill you learn The exact steps you can take to go from questioning to yourself and staying small to building unshakable confidence When I look back at my career and what has made the biggest difference for me, it is hands down developing this skill of confidence and anyone can learn it - you just have to know HOW and this is what this episode is going to teach you. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkindContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motherkind. It is me, your host, Zoe Blaski. We are proudly sponsored by wild
0:13.9	nutrition's women's supplements. This is the show that is going to grab you by the hand and be
0:18.4	your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood. Every week I bring you world leading experts and thinkers to give us new ideas,
0:26.5	new tools, new support, new inspiration for our lives as mothers. And we span everything here
0:31.6	from work to relationships to mental health and healing to parenting. And I am very happy that you are here.
0:39.8	This is the Motherkind work mini-series. And I have such an important episode for you today because
0:46.5	it is about confidence. A 2022 LinkedIn survey found that 67% of women reported a significant drop in confidence when returning to work
0:57.7	after maternity leave. This dropping confidence is huge. I would argue it's almost universal and yet it
1:04.8	is vital for feeling like we can handle not only the transition of back to work, but the years
1:10.1	that come after it and often
1:11.8	reimagining how we need to work. Confidence is the skill that unlocks our ability to think about
1:18.9	what does this mean for me now. So today's guest is one of the leading thinkers on confidence and
1:25.1	women. Lauren Curry OBE is the founder of Upfront. She has been named
1:29.7	by Elle as one of the 30 women under 30 changing the world and by management today is one of the top
1:35.2	35 UK businesswoman under 35 and she is on a mission to boost confidence for 10 million
1:43.5	women worldwide through her organisation up front.
1:47.4	In this episode, you are going to learn what real confidence is.
1:50.8	It is not something that you have or don't have.
1:53.8	It is a skill you learn.
1:55.5	And in this episode, you are going to know the exact steps that you can take to go from questioning yourself and staying small
2:02.9	to building unshakable confidence. And when I look back at my career, what has made the biggest
2:09.7	difference for me is hands down developing this skill of confidence. And anyone can learn it.
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