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Style and Confidence - Where Confidence Meets Style for Business Success

Style and Confidence - Where Confidence Meets Style for Business Success

By: Clare Silk
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Welcome to the Style and Confidence podcast; a weekly show full of insights and ideas to help you elevate your personal style and confidence to drive your business success.

Join Clare Silk, ICF accredited transformative life coach and personal stylist, of Silk Styling, for weekly episodes talking about style, confidence, mindset and fashion psychology.

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Episodes
  • 52. Leadership Presence for Women: How to Be Remembered Without Being Loud
    Mar 4 2026

    Do you long to be more visible but you don't want to be loud or be someone else?

    Leadership presence isn't about being the loudest personin the room, dominating conversations or demanding attention or performing confidence you don't feel.

    Leadership presence is something quieter. Something deeper. Something far more powerful.

    It's about being remembered without being loud, commanding attention without demanding it, influencing others through your grounded, authentic presence rather than through force or performance.

    In this episode, I'm exploring what leadership presence is, why it matters so much for ambitious women and how you can develop it in a way that feels genuinely like you.

    This is for the ambitious woman who wants to lead butdoesn't want to compromise her authentic style.

    For the woman who knows she's capable but struggles with visibility.

    For the woman who's ready to beremembered for the right reasons.

    In this episode, you'll discover:

    • You don't need to be loud to be a leader.
    • You don't need to dominate to have influence.
    • You don't need to perform to have presence.

    You just need to be grounded, authentic and fully yourself.

    Which is so much more powerful than any performance could ever be.

    Mentioned in this episode: My Confidently You digitalprogramme: designed to help you develop both the internal confidence and the external presence that creates real leadership impact.

    Learn more at claresilk.com.

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    25 mins
  • 51. From Capable to Confident: why Competence Alone Isn't Enough In 2026
    Feb 25 2026

    'I'm good at what I do. I'm capable, but I'm still not being seen and getting the opportunities I deserve'.

    If you fell like this, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong, just missing a piece.

    You can be the most qualified person in the room, have more expertise than anyone else and deliver exceptional work consistently, but if people don't perceive you as confident, if you don't have presence or you're not visible in the right ways, then you competence gets overlooked.

    In this episode:

    • Why competence is the baseline (and what creates opportunities now)
    • Key changes women make when moving from capable to confident
    • How your external expression either undermines or amplifies your competence.
    • A 5 area practical assessment to identify where your gaps are.

    This is for every ambitious woman who knows she is capable but struggles to be seen that way.


    Confidently You digital Programme

    Website: claresilk.com

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    17 mins
  • 50. Five Conversations That Resonated Most: A One Year Reflection on Style, Confidence & Success
    Feb 18 2026

    It is my one year anniversary of hosting Style & Confidence: Where Style Meets Confidence For Business Success.


    I'm celebrating by going back to the very beginning.

    In this special episode I am revisiting the five most listened to episodes of the past year and pulling out the insights that resonated most with ambitious women in business just like you.

    Whether you're brand new here or you've been with me since episode one, this is your confidence masterclass.

    We cover:

    • The neuroscience being why what you wear changed how your brain actually functions
    • Why having MORE clothes could be secretly draining your confidence (and what to do instead)
    • How you clothing communicated your authority before you've said a single word
    • The confidence-authority loop and how to use it to accelerate your success
    • How to stop dressing for who you were and start dressing for who you're becoming

    If you've ever stood in front of your wardrobe and felt uninspired, this episode is for you.


    Work with me:

    Confidently You

    Claresilk.com


    Get In Touch

    clare@claresilk.com

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    22 mins
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