Join us over on our Facebook page for our LIVE interviews… Season two has a fab lineup - we’re very lucky! Mike Lloyd, from the internationally renowned Boudoir Guild plus local and independent businesses and a #BBBY client that has taken her weightloss journey way beyond anywhere anyone could have imagines. Read (and listen!) all about it!

What blows me away most, however is that from all these different walks of life there seems to be similar obstacles that all women have met, are going through or have endured… For example, the challenges of juggling motherhood, work, significant others, and there is a clear thing in common: all of these titles and roles in life leave us, as women, with life very little time to appreciate ourselves. And let’s not forget those women who, for whatever reason… The blunt reality is that putting yourself toward the bottom of the list leads to low esteem, low confidence and low self worth.

5. Learn how to motivate yourself.

Strong confidence comes from the ability to achieve your goals and knowing that you can do things that you put your mind to. Achieving goals largely comes from the ability to stay motivated. We all know it's easier to put things off, procrastinate, and invent excuses for not applying ourselves. If this is you, set yourself up to be successful each day. Come up with a few daily activities that will improve your life and also provide a sense of accomplishment.

For example, you might decide to read a certain number of pages in a book each night, or exercise for 45 minutes each morning. Perhaps you want to take part in a Be Bold Be You photoshoot! If that's the case, how can you set yourself up to make that possible?

Stick with your plan and you'll begin to trust yourself to follow through.

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Where we love our jobs but no matter how much we try to ignore a couple of things, they can still irritate us, sometimes! So, here’s an insight into five things professional photographers love to hate within the portrait industry.

Let’s be honest, nothing beats the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction a printed photograph can give you. It may be the memory linked to the photo or a shot of a loved one that you are especially proud of and we all want those memories to be preserved well.

In the last month, I had an enquiry on our Facebook page, underneath a video of recent client’s shoots, that simply said “why”… Boudoir is a form of self expression. It’s a form of art therapy… You won’t be the same 18yr old by the time you reach 50, for example. It’s why, in our work, we focus so hard and promoting self care. Self care can lead to self confidence and self confidence can lead to wonderful things - from positive forms of self expression and acceptance through to creating fab goals that you then achieve and succeed. This is a fabulous cycle as the more confident you are the more challenges you set and, as a result, the positivity allows you to achieve.