How to be More Confident in Yourself and Your Business with Wedding Trailblazer - Kat Williams

Kat Williams is a writer, editor and of course the face behind the successful wedding blog and magazine Rock N Roll Bride. Started In 2007 Kat noticed a gap in the market for advice on how to plan and create a wedding that wasn’t the big white day, but in fact the small alternative, colourful, accepting and more importantly unique party! Rock N Roll Bride is one of the biggest wedding blogs in the world! When Kat launched her bi-monthly Rock N Roll Bride magazine in 2015 it was reported as being the fastest debut selling issue of a magazine ever! It sold out within 72 hours and sold over 1,000 copies within the first day alone. In 2019 Kat published her book, Rock N Roll Bride: The Ultimate Guide for Rock N Roll Brides, which instantly went to #1 in Amazon’s wedding category. Kat took the world and the wedding industry by storm which of course comes with a lot of negativity to deal with. Kat talks about how she navigates all of the things, how she deals with the haters, and how she stays confident and true to her voice and vision. Kat’s Takeaways  1. Having a large online following means you will get a few people who don’t like what you’re doing and that can be hard to deal with sometimes, especially when people feel like they know you. That can be difficult, but understand it’s them not you.  2. Wanting to help people Is one of the best ways to run a business and run your life!  3. Getting married is more than a wedding, it’s many loved one’s feelings, family traditions and beliefs and hang ups you didn’t even know you all had, but there’s always a different way to do it and actually do it your way and enjoy it all!  4. Happy people don’t spread hate and lies, so if that’s something you’re dealing with, just remember, it’s actually impossible for the brain to physically be nasty and be grateful or love at the same time. They are clearly in a miserable space in their life. 5. If you’ve had struggles around food, dieting and all of that body image, don’t worry if you stray off your path and struggle a few years later, it’s a constant journey and takes re grouping often. It’s like gardening, if we don’t keep pruning daily, the weeds will show up! Be kind to yourself!  6. Owning your business is a mental game, morning routines can really help you feel in control, especially in this world right now where it feels there isn’t much of that. 7.Exercising actually changes your thoughts, also try tapping!  8. Confidence is a skill; you can practice and cultivate.  9. You can be bubbly and not confident.  10. If you have self-belief you can be so powerful!  11. You can be fearful and do the thing anyway! In fact, every successful entrepreneur is, they just make friends with their fear! 12. We don’t know what the world is going to throw at us next, but remember this, you have the power to make your life the way you want it to be and you are more capable than you give yourself credit for.  *****GIVEAWAY ***** To celebrate Kat coming on the podcast, I’m giving away Kats amazing book ‘Rock N Rock Bride’ The Ultimate Guide for Alternative Brides!’ to you the listener, to be in with a chance to win all you have to do is write me a review on iTunes or if you haven’t got that, then share this episode on your stories and send me a screen shot of either or if you want a double entry! It’s free to do but it really does help. Winner is announced Wednesday 23rd December 2020. Good Luck! You can find all of Kats amazing work, courses, mentoring, her Podcast ‘The Confidence Club Podcast’ and her book at https://www.rocknrollbride.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-19-pivoting-your-business-power-self-confidence/id1512131664?i=1000501492444