Holly Matthews, recognized for her roles in BBC’s Waterloo Street, Casualty, and Byker Grove, has efficiently transitioned from TV actress to acclaimed self-development coach and founding father of The Comfortable Me Venture.
Holly’s journey into the world of self-help and private growth is marked by her award-winning teaching, bestselling e book, and common contributions to main media shops together with BBC radio, magazines, and nationwide newspapers. She can be a well-known face on reveals like Lorraine and Channel 5 Information.
An creator whose debut e book reached the #1 spot on Amazon and was named Well being and Wellbeing Journal’s Greatest Wellness Ebook of 2022, Holly continues to make waves together with her newest launch, Discover Your Confidence, revealed by Bloomsbury on September 12. This e book guides readers by 9 confidence-challenging eventualities, providing sensible instruments to spice up each inside and exterior confidence.
Holly’s private life, together with her expertise as a widowed mom of two daughters, Brooke and Texas, profoundly influences her work. She is devoted to serving to others embrace their true selves and discover pleasure, encapsulated in her mission to assist folks really feel “more happy and less crappy.” Her distinctive method to self-development is simple and actionable, making mindset work accessible to everybody, notably entrepreneurs in search of to construct confidence and obtain their objectives.
One in every of Holly’s shoppers praised her impression, saying, “Holly has absolutely changed my life for the better. I am 1000% more confident, more present, joy-seeking, and aware of how amazing I am, thanks to her fabulous coaching.” Becky Hill, a Brit Award-winning pop star, additionally counseled Holly: “Holly is the most wonderful human with such a rich life experience. Her book reflects her voice and life lessons, which are incredibly valuable and easy to embrace. I’ve recommended this book to everyone I know! Thank you, Holly, for the book we all knew we needed.”
What was the inspiration behind The Comfortable Me Venture and your latest e book Discover Your Confidence?
The Comfortable Me Venture got here into existence after the dying of my husband Ross to mind most cancers in 2017. There have been so many individuals watching what was occurring, and I needed to search out sense in one thing unfathomable to my mind. This then grew legs and took on a lifetime of its personal, quickly changing into workshops, a membership and my first e book. Discover Your Confidence, my second e book, was impressed by my work as each a self-development coach (the interior work) and my work as an actress (the exterior work). In almost all my teaching work there is a component of confidence and self-belief work that must be carried out to ensure that folks to reside their greatest life and this e book is my reply to this.
Who do you admire?
The folks I love have a tendency not at all times to be those who we tout round as success tales in life. The individuals who I love or individuals who reside their life as themselves and are unapologetically who they wish to be. Then I might say folks within the public eye that encourage me, Emma Thompson (a drive, a feminist and an excellent actress!), plus folks like Pink or Stacey Solomon who reside their lives unapologetically as themselves. I’m impressed by our new deputy prime minister Angel Rayner who got here from a council property to be on this extremely influential place (with out compromising her values). I love bravery, these keen to be susceptible and I’m genuinely impressed by folks on daily basis.
Trying again, is there something that you’d have carried out otherwise?
Oh, my goodness, tons. My enterprise has typically consisted of me throwing quite a lot of shit on the wall and hoping a few of it sticks. My enterprise has grown organically, and I’ve grown with it. Which means there have been many missteps alongside the way in which. If I might return now, I might recognise the necessity for momentum in these moments of progress and having the appropriate foundations to assist these moments. I’ve traditionally not at all times been prepared for the tidal wave when it got here and by default sabotaged these moments. I might even have recognised earlier that I ought to herald different folks to do the stuff I’m not good at so I can think about the issues I’m good at.
What defines your manner of doing enterprise?
My first job – by writing a letter and asking for what I needed. On this letter I acknowledged clearly who I used to be and was specific about what I needed from my contact with them. This was my first TV function at simply 11 years outdated and I wrote that letter to a casting division of a BBC drama. My enterprise hasn’t modified since then – in some ways I nonetheless ask for what I need. I nonetheless do issues in a manner that many others don’t and I’m nonetheless specific in stating my intentions and what I need. My enterprise is usually outlined by impulsivity and giving issues a go, saying sure even when I’ve completely no clue the best way to do one thing.
What recommendation would you give someone who’s simply beginning out?
I might say let go of the way you suppose it ought to look, as a result of it is going to frivolously have many twists and turns and completely different routes to get to the place you wish to be. I might say keep in mind to care for your self and work on my ‘pause and propel’ system. This implies going full steam forward and propelling in some momentum and ensuring to cushion these with the ‘pause’. We’re good to nobody if we’re burnt out. I’d additionally say keep in mind to take inspiration from folks however don’t get so caught up in that it turns into a distraction. The most effective factor you are able to do is lean into being essentially the most you which you can be (which by default makes you unique!).
