In Confidence with Rosie Dalling

One minute you're hosting the breakfast show in Weston-super-Mare with 9,000 listeners. The next, you're on a plane to the Oscars, rubbing shoulders with Robin Williams, sitting next to Shirley Bassey. What does that do to your confidence? Broadcaster Zoe Hanson , burst onto National radio in the early 2000s, hosting the Capital Radio breakfast show with Johnny Vaughan. She’s enjoyed a 20 year car...

Who gets to define what a “good” life looks like? For Tamu Thomas , the answer arrived mid-panic-attack, on her way to court. Tamu is the author of Women Who Work Too Much, and a woman who knows exactly what it costs to keep proving yourself. We talk about burnout, boundaries, and what confidence actually looks and feels like in the body. After 16 years as a social worker, deciding the fate of vul...

Jane Green is an 18-time New York Times bestselling author with more than 10 million books in print. She also writes the hugely popular “Dear Jane” column as the Daily Mail’s agony aunt. In this podcast, Jane talks to me about confidence, identity, and what happens when you become successful before you believe you deserve it. She speaks about the runaway success of her novel Jemima J, the ‘persona...

She had the CEO title, the Harvard education, the house in the city of her dreams, the husband, even the French Bulldog with the face for Instagram. So why was she asking: Is that all there is? Alisha Fernandez Miranda is the award-winning author of the USA Today bestselling novel Someone’s Gotta Giv e and the memoir My What If Year . At the age of 40, she made a list of everything she'd always wa...

How do you know when you’ve collected enough evidence to truly feel confident enough? Rachel Kelly is a bestselling writer, public speaker and mental health advocate. She is an ambassador for several mental health charities, including SANE and Rethink Mental Illness. In her book The Gift of Teenagers, Rachel shares how bringing up her five children in an anxious age, and her work for five years wi...

What if the secret to confidence was as simple as believing that most people really really like you? David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour - and he thinks it is. In his book The Laws of Connection, he explains how social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. And...

So you've been invited to something that matters — an interview, a party, you're giving a talk. I'm going to bet one of your first thoughts is: what the hell do I wear? Alexandra Fullerton is a stylist and writer. Formerly Fashion Director-at-large of Glamour UK for five years, she was previously Fashion Director at Stylist magazine. She’s worked with everyone who’s anyone in fashion - from David...

Write to me with your confidence problem or dilemma at askrosie.inconfidence@gmail.com or send me a voicenote: 07377 231 025 Please read my Terms and Conditions This week’s letter is from a woman in her 40s in the entertainment business. Dear Rosie, I have a problem, which is that I’m not really sure who I am. I’ve started to notice that I adapt myself to whoever I’m with. I pick up the tone of th...

Most people think confidence is about how you come across . What if it’s actually about what you’re willing to tell the truth about ? Bonnie Oddie is a writer, choreographer, and founder of Your Story Works , a programme that helps individuals and teams unlock confidence through true storytelling . The daughter of Bill Oddie , she grew up around performance and has built a career blending creativi...

Write to me with your confidence problem or dilemma at askrosie.inconfidence@gmail.com or send me a voicenote: 07377 231 025 Please read my Terms and Conditions This week’s letter is from a Chief Marketing Officer in the communications industry. Dear Rosie, I recently lost my job, and I suspect it may have been unfair. But everything happened so quickly and was so stressful that I didn’t have the...

What if the word “confidence” is actually making you worse under pressure? Viv Groskop has spent years studying how people perform when the stakes are high: first as a stand-up comedian, and later as the author of the best-selling How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking. Through her podcast Own The Room , she has interviewed some of the world’s most compelling communicators, i...

Write to me with your confidence problem or dilemma at askrosie.inconfidence@gmail.com or send me a voicenote: 07377 231 025 Please read my Terms and Conditions Ok, I’ll admit it! I’ve always wanted to be an agony aunt. My friend Sally had a stack of Sugar magazines in her bathroom. My mum did not approve! I, meanwhile, was obsessed with the problem page. Dear Sugar… People wrote in about problems...

Richard Holman can help you have better ideas. As a creativity specialist he works with senior teams at brands including Lego, Tinder and Matel - encouraging them to think more bravely. In this episode of In Confidence , the last in this season, Richard and I discuss how to build creative confidence. And why nurturing your creativity is the most powerful antidote to self-doubt. We discuss why it’s...

Julie Owen Moylan had always wanted to be a writer. But growing up on a council estate in Wales, it didn’t feel like a job meant for her. So on careers day, when the girl in front said “hairdressing” , Julie said it too. She went on to build a sensible, successful life. But the dream she left behind never quite disappeared. Just before she turned 60, Julie published her first novel with Penguin. I...

Shahroo Izadi spent years working at the sharp end of behavioural change - in addiction treatment, prisons, and the NHS, helping people change habits when everything was stacked against them. She helped those people society often labels as “resistant”, “undisciplined”, or “broken”. What she discovered there challenged one of our most deeply held beliefs about confidence and change: That people nee...

Rosie Nixon spent 16 years at the helm of HELLO! magazine, rising to Editor-in-Chief at the height of print media’s power. It was one of the most glamorous jobs in journalism: red carpets, royalty, exclusives. A role many would dream of and never leave. Until one day - alone in a hotel room, after a glittering work event, Rosie’s body and mind staged a mutiny: she could no longer stomach the life...

Adrianne Carter is a leading expert in non-verbal communication and facial expression, often described as “The Face Whisperer.” She’s spent more than 25 years studying what confidence actually looks like. She decodes the tiny, often unconscious signals our faces and bodies give away every day. She explains: People decide whether they trust you - and how confident you are - long before you say a wo...

Jane Green is an 18-time New York Times bestselling author with more than 10 million books in print. She also writes the hugely popular “Dear Jane” column as the Daily Mail’s agony aunt. In this podcast, Jane talks to me about confidence, identity, and what happens when you become successful before you believe you deserve it She speaks about the runaway success of her novel Jemima J, the ‘persona’...

For many years, I believed confident people had access to some sort of secret roadmap the rest of us never received. But through my work as a confidence coach, I’ve discovered something different. Confidence begins the moment you believe something is possible. That single belief changes how you speak, how you show up, and what you dare to go after. The problem is: most of us have been trained to s...