Meg Robson-Austin

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Yeah, so I've always had an athletic physique and I used to get told I look like a man, but more at school than I do now. And so I used to hide my shoulders and I used to hide my arms all the time and you would never see me, you know, I would always have long sleeves and stuff on. Being powerful and strong is a good thing, whereas I would try and shrink myself down and, you know, hold myself back constantly because I didn't want to be put in the spotlight. Whereas now I'm like, yeah, check out the guns, like, you know.

If you don't like it, don't look. That's absolutely fine. But yeah, I certainly don't shy away from getting the shoulders out anymore.

Yeah. And what do you say to yourself now, Meg, when you look in the mirror in the morning? What do you see? It depends whether I'm having a good hair day or not. But yeah, I look back and I think about all the things that I've achieved. I often talk to my younger self. I do a lot of work with my younger self. If I'm having a bit of a bad day, she'll talk to me and say, look, look how far you've come. Or if I'm getting a bit anxious or a bit nervous, I know it's come from her, not me. So I'll have conversations with her. And yeah, I don't.

It will always be a work in progress, but there's very few days now, very few days where I'm like, no, I can't do this, this is rubbish kind of thing. Are you proud of yourself? I'm very proud of myself, and it's taken me a long time to have the courage to say that out loud, because especially as women, you get told you're arrogant, you shouldn't be shouting about your achievements, and we get told to stay in our boxes and stay in our lanes, but I'm really, really proud of what I've achieved, and I'm not afraid to say it anymore.