Victoria Phipps Photography

This week I’m diving into all things confidence and shouting out a lot of women in this solo ep… some I’ve been lucky enough to meet and others who have no idea who I am! 😄

Coach • Facilitator
Alex Morgan and Tiffany Sanya Scott
Lauren Currie OBE | Founder | CEO | Speaker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Pippa Goulden | PR Expert

I also include a very personal love note to my parents, because - as I say in the episode - I don’t tell them often enough how much I appreciate them ❤️

If you’ve ever felt your confidence crack under the story that you’re being “too big for your boots” then this episode is for you! Listen in via the link in stories or by searching for episode 83 wherever you find your podcasts 🎧

S O P H I E C A T T O is on a mission to support women.

Whether that’s women navigating their career through each season of life through her work with AllBright everywoman, women who enter motherhood without their own mum to hold their hand and support them along the way through her work with The Motherless Mothers or women who want to create a beautiful sanctuary to call home through her family business Catto & Co..

Sophie puts purpose at the heart of everything she does, because as a mum of two she feels that every moment she spends away from her children has to be moving the needle towards positive impact.

In this conversation we dug into all the good stuff, from dancing between the corporate and entrepreneur worlds, the common career challenges women face in matrescence and how it feels to become a mum without your mum.

Listen in via the link in stories or search for episode 82 wherever you find your podcasts 🎧

Over the summer I guested on four podcasts and coincidentally every episode came out last week, which triggered a few old familiar stories… “people are going to be sick to death if you!”

Of course I know you’ve all got far more interesting things to be thinking about 😂 but given that it was International Podcast Day I did a bit of reflecting on how I feel about guesting on other people’s pods now… 18 months after I was interviewed on one for the first time.

It turns out some subjects feel easier to talk about than others!

You can listen in to my ramblings via the link in show notes or by searching for episode 81 wherever you find your podcasts 🎧

Imagine if Bridget Jones had been a wedding photographer. Yep 😂

When you’ve been conditioned to work hard, get the grades, meet the knight in shining armour, carve out the glistening career and look effortlessly put together throughout, showing up authentically goes against everything you’ve ever been told. And it’s tough!

What this season of loneliness taught me is that the fairytale doesn’t exist and actually life is more interesting for it.

I don’t want anyone to be “jealous” of the curated version of life on my Instagram feed. So here’s to showing up messy, unfiltered, human and vulnerable ❤️

I felt a bit long in the tooth putting this post together 👵🏻

It’s obviously hugely embarrassing (who uses their own face as a logo?!), but also kind of cute to look back and see how far I’ve come with this photography business of mine.

For years I tried to fit in with everyone else in the industry and it feels so good to finally let a bit of personality shine through 🌈

Having a brand that lifts my spirits every time I look at it is such a joy and I’m so grateful to Liz Mosley - Branding for small businesses for bringing all her creativity and expertise to the table to get me here!

Do go and check out the Liz Mosley if you don’t listen already and let me know in the comments, when did you last do a rebrand? ⬇️

Photographers, how do you respond to this?

I’m moving out of my smile and move on era into my witty retort era and need some inspiration!



PS - Thanks to Molly Matcham and Adobe Express for these images, I can’t take credit for any of them 🙃

This letter could be from me to me 3 years ago, but instead it’s to you lovely talented family photographer… in case you need to hear it today ❤️