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Kirsty Cooke

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Glaswegian in London 💙 Marketing consultant. Confidence coach @wearebrighterworks 😍 Improvise with @spmimprov & @hoofcomedy. Half of @kandjclub 🥰

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Who else is being a sneaky little sneaker out there?

Jotting some notes down to remember things about new people you meet is the easiest little friend-making hack. It makes someone feel warm and fuzzy when you remember their child’s name or the city they were born in or the instrument they’ve just taken up! Even if its just their name you’re trying to remember, give it a try… 📝

#RememberingNames #MeetingNewPeople #NewHobby #Confidence by @kizcakes

Say it with us:

Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Practice breeds confidence. Great. Now go do it. 💪 ✨

@wearebrighterworks

#Womeninbusniess #confidence #lifeskills by @kizcakes

Lovely times with lovely people, September edition ❤️
Inc theatre, Traitors, dinners, Little Venice, improv teams, neighboursssss 😘❤️ by @kizcakes

Birthday banter 2026 💕💗 by @kizcakes

Five words that make your blood run cold. 🥶

What you say in your introduction or elevator pitch or whatever you want to call it doesn’t have to be COMPLETELY off the cuff. It also doesn’t have to be COMPLETELY over-rehearsed.

Thinking about WHO your audience is, WHAT you want them to remember about you and WHY you love what you do can help you craft an intro that’s flexible, specific and memorable for the right reasons.

Practising it (out loud, please!) with different people or scenarios in mind keeps things playful and stops it from becoming scripted and stale.

Swipe through for the full break down. ➡️
And SAVE for your next interview, pitch meeting or networking event! by @kizcakes

HELLO! It’s Michelle & Kirsty, the founders of Brighter Works. 👋

We wanted to explain a little bit about how we work.

At the moment, all of our workshops are designed from scratch: every customer gets something bespoke.

But every workshop is also based around the things we believe in very strongly…

- Confidence is built through doing. The doing is the learning!! Participants will practise realistic scenarios, in their own voice (then get feedback, adjust, and try again).

- Confidence starts within the body. How you stand, move, and speak shapes how you come across, and how you feel. So we use grounding, posture, pace, breath and voice exercises to bring people into the room, and out of their own heads.

- Being brave can be playful. We love playing! When something feels fun, people take more risks. So we use games to lower the stakes, increase participation, and build a bit of resilience.

- Breakthroughs come from reflection. Repetition is important, but so is pausing. We build in plenty of time for discussion, and we ask how an exercise “feels”, to make sure the insights stick. by @kizcakes

Some of my favourite pics from @endoftheroad festival 😍😍😍

@mattyhutson got us a sweet deal hosting the karaoke stage 🎤 and @bomtettley and I had the best time on stage / on clipboard duty (!and meeting our fellow MCs)

@bettina.la.tomtom drove us and @milkycon introduced us to some of us very lovely friends - so we had a top camping crew 🥹🥹💕

I knew more songs on the karaoke list than I did acts on the lineup, but there was some fab "radio 6 dad" music to enjoy and I've found some new bands I like!! Well done me.

We did it!! ❤️🥰 by @kizcakes

The Edinburgh Fringe
Except it's mainly pals and pints and tasty food🍕
(Lots of good shows but only ones pictured are @bettina.la.tomtom and @_sarahjlewis being absolute comedy legends 💗)
And also it's dinner in Glasgow for Jamie's birthday
And also dinner in Glasgow with the Lenzie girls
And a drive to the dump in Bishopbriggs xxxx
Really a better caption is "trip to Scotland" but it's too late now by @kizcakes

So many lovely fun times in August and this doesn't even include a beaut trip to Scotland 😍🥰💕
Chelmsford
Brighton
@wearebrighterworks
@hoofcomedy
Boat trip
Pub crawl
Dave theatre trip and bday
Sibling time
London Ladies x by @kizcakes

Dedicated July dump for all the amazing theatre I saw 🙏🏻

1536 with @michellefahrenheim

Oh Mary with @floradawson

Grayson the musical well done @jshalloo

And of course a brilliant trip to Keswick to see @roseshalloo smash it in Nell Gwynne 😍 by @kizcakes

July was just chocka with fun times & lovely people really 😊 💕 by @kizcakes

Cute fun days out with @bomtettley in July 🤩😘😍🥰 by @kizcakes