Welcome to The Visibility Studio

Transforming the way you approach visibility, voice, and self-expression. 

DEVELOP A VISIBILITY PRACTICE FOR 2025 

 

 

Our lives are filled with countless challenges around how we show up and speak up.

Sometimes, our greatest visibility challenges come from our family environments. When our values differ from those around us, staying true to those values while maintaining familial relationships can become a delicate balancing act.

At other times, our identity is misunderstood or unappreciated by those around us. This affects our experience of belonging and can have us feeling that we can’t fully express who we are without risking judgment or rejection.

Then there are the moments when we encounter people who knew us in our younger years but not as we've aged. Their outdated perceptions can feel out of sync with who we’ve become, making it challenging to break free from their fixed ideas of us.

In the workplace, visibility challenges can take a different form. Many of us are only able - or expected - to share a fraction of our true selves. This constant filtering can leave us feeling inauthentic, undervalued, or like an outsider in the spaces where we spend most of our time.


For business owners, visibility challenges are relentless. When you’re the face of your organisation, you constantly navigate questions about:

  • how much of yourself to share publicly,

  • the tone that aligns best with your brand,

  • the stories you want to tell,

  • how to balance relatability with professionalism

  • the platforms where your message will have the most impact, and

  • how to engage with criticism or feedback constructively.

 

One area I didn’t anticipate early on was the visibility implications of becoming a mother.

 

From the way people treat - and touch - you when you’re pregnant, to advocating for safe, supportive pregnancy and labour care, to how I felt about my body after giving birth, to advocating for my children within the schooling system and in social spaces. Motherhood brought new visibility challenges at every turn. 

 

Each situation asks us to navigate how we show up and speak up, often without a roadmap.

 

What we need is a way to anchor ourselves - to reflect, gain clarity, and consciously step into the kind of person we want to be. When we do this, we stay anchored in intentionality, minimising unnecessary drama, and stepping forward with confidence.

The starting place is with a visibility practice. 

It’s a regular way of connecting with yourself and clarifying how you want to show up and speak up as the best version of yourself. 

When we take the time to do this, your approach to visibility changes.
Your visibility efforts become more meaningful in all the areas where your efforts will be most impactful.

When you take the time to focus on how you’re going to show up in the world, you save countless hours of second-guessing, indecision, and spending time on things that are well outside of your interests or expertise. 

With clarity guiding you, decisions become easier and more aligned, allowing you to move forward with confidence and purpose. 

What people say...

Lisa, UK

I definitely feel like I see myself and understand myself more clearly now. I used to think visibility was just about marketing, now I realise it's about being seen and heard for who I am in all areas of my life. 

Mary, Ireland

This really made me think about how I hold myself back in my coaching business. I surprised myself this week by posting about my business on my biz and personal page. I'm shocked at myself! I don't feel triggered by this either. I've definitely cleared some visibility blocks.

 

Eleni, Greece

I have started to express myself and show myself more in a small online circle of women I trust, and to start stacking positive experiences of showing myself and a sense of empowerment. Also, integrating the visibility practices in my daily life has been huge in managing my intense emotions, energy and triggers, and bringing more ease and wholeness to my heart.

Christey, Japan

I've started taking action in my work to reach new audiences, where I didn't feel it was necessary before. I'm also feeling more confident in asserting my opinions in my personal life, like my voice matters more.

Helena, Australia

After doing your visibility work, I woke up very early this morning with a really clear head and lots of energy - first time in ages! I'm excited about working on my business and being seen. Thank you!

Trudy, Australia

There's a lovely synergy between your voice recordings, your written examples and the use of the workbook and visibility clearing practices. They all combined together to help safely draw attention to my inner knowledge.

You've created a lovely safe space with really positive encouraging feedback. Much gratitude for the experience.

 

"When you lose touch with yourself, you lose
yourself in the world." - Eckhart Tolle

Without taking the time to connect with your inner wisdom and reflect on how you want to show up and speak up, it’s easy to remain stuck in indecision and reactive patterns. This can leave you feeling:

  • Invisible or unheard in moments when your voice is needed most. 

  • Uncertain about whether you have anything meaningful to contribute.

  • Overwhelmed and unprepared when challenges arise, like advocating for your children, asking for a sale, or sharing your ideas publicly.

  • Burnt out and exhausted from second-guessing yourself or lacking clear boundaries. 

Over time, these missed opportunities can accumulate, leaving you feeling less focused, powerful, and aligned with the causes, communities, or roles that matter most to you.

Happily, it doesn’t have to be that way.

By taking intentional time at the beginning of the year to reflect on how you want to show up and speak up, and building a practice that will support you to stay aligned to that vision through the year - you can move into 2025 with clarity and confidence, ready to step forward, take your place, and make a meaningful impact when it matters most.

Welcome to The Visibility Studio.

When you take the time to think about how you want to show up and speak up, everything shifts. 

You feel at ease - clear in your vision and grounded in your values.

You approach opportunities with discernment, knowing when to speak and when silence is a more powerful option.

You know what to say and how to say it in a way that feels authentic and impactful.

Sharing your ideas becomes a source of excitement rather than anxiety. 

You feel aligned with your purpose, focused on the issues that matter most to you, and confident in your ability to make a meaningful contribution.

This all comes from taking the time to reflect and centre yourself before stepping forward and speaking up. The Visibility Studio gives you the opportunity to do just that.  

It’s a 14-day journey designed to help you build a personalised visibility practice. Taking you step by step through a process for creating your practice, you’ll feel empowered to see and be seen, hear and be heard, aligning your inner clarity with outer expression.

The Visibility Studio will run live from 28 July 2025. 

Doors will open for enrolment - at our super early bird price - in May 2025.

The Visibility Studio is...

An anchor point

To return to daily, or as regularly as you wish, to stay focused on the way you want to show up and speak up through the year.

An activation space

To keep you growing and stepping more confidently into your power as you clarify your approach to showing up and speaking up. 

A grounded place

To return to and re-centre yourself, blocking out unhelpful influences and planting the seeds you want to see bloom in 2025.

True visibility isn’t about being everywhere or having opinions on everything. It’s about being aligned, intentional, and authentic.
It’s about using your voice in a way that reflects your values, and focusing your energy on the areas where you can make the greatest impact.

Why The Visibility Studio?

Because starting the year with good intentions is one thing but having a practice to support you throughout the year is something else entirely. Throughout the course you will: 

  • Understand the importance of a visibility practice discovering how it can transform your personal and professional life.

  • Build your personalised practice following a step by step process to help you design a practice tailored to your unique influences and aspirations. 

  • Clarify the relationship between your vision and the role that voice and visibility will play in realising it.

  • Identify the visibility challenges that could otherwise hold you back in 2025.

  • Understand and apply critical tools and approaches for overcoming those challenges. 

  • Get comfortable with tuning out the influences of others, so you can hear and trust your own voice.

  • Explore the stories you want to share and the impact they could have.

  • Develop visibility discernment - understanding the influences that help you to your voice and the ones that are not.

The benefits of a visibility practice

WITHOUT a practice

  • Your visibility efforts become scattered and chaotic.
  • You’re unsure when you should speak up and when you should stay quiet. 
  • You waste time focused on issues that don’t need your input whilst missing opportunities to create a positive impact in spaces that are waiting for your influence. 
  • The lack of strategic direction leads to missed opportunities.
  • Uncertainty results in stepping out of alignment, causing cringey regret.
  • Your efforts don't build on themselves. Goodbye momentum. :(

WITH a visibility practice

  • You have a clear sense of where you're headed and the best places to show up and speak up.
  • You start your days grounded and anchored into that vision so your contributions are meaningful and purposeful.  
  • You're more confident and articulate when you speak up because you know your lane and the contribution you're here to make. 
  • You say no to misaligned opportunities, whilst wholeheartedly embracing the right ones.

What to expect from the course...

Here's how it works

For 14 days, you’ll receive:

  • Daily lessons on how to build out a visibility practice.
  • A step by step approach to drawing on the influences that are most important to you so your practice can best support your needs and circumstances. 
  • Accompanying guided self-reflection, visualisations and clearings to help you build a practice that reflects your unique approach to speaking up and being seen. 
  • Exercises that build clarity and courage, from identifying your visibility blocks to crafting the stories you want to share.

This is a practical, empowering process with the tools you need to support you throughout the days, weeks, and months of 2025. 

What you’ll walk away with

  • A visibility practice that you can use daily throughout the year to keep you centred and anchored into your vision for how you want to show up and speak up in 2025.
  • Insights into the challenges you’ll face and strategies to overcome them.
  • Confidence to trust your voice, ignore outside influences, and use your discernment to make impactful choices.
  • A deeper understanding of the stories you wish to share and how to share them with purpose.

By the end of the course, you’ll feel prepared, energised, and excited to step into the year ahead with clarity and conviction, knowing what you need to do to stay on track throughout the year.

In week 1 we will explore the foundations of a visibility practice.

You’ll learn a series of tools and draw on your background and expertise to pull together a visibility map. From there, you’ll build out your visibility practice - one that’s tailored to your needs and circumstances.  

In week 2 we’ll build out your visibility practice. 

You’ll finalise and test your approach, looking for potential pitfalls, and learning approaches to overcome any challenges that might arise through the year as you’re undertaking your practice. 

Community space and Q&A opportunities

The materials will be delivered via email and a private podcast feed. Plus there'll be a community space for the duration of the course where you can share your approaches, ask questions, and celebrate your wins.  

About your guide

Hi, I'm Samantha Nolan-Smith. I'm a mum of two, a yogini, introvert, and book and tea lover. 

I founded the School of Visibility in 2016 after talking a lot about visibility and discovering that sooo many of my students were excited about creating a business but terrified about anyone finding out about it.

I decided to create a space where all who need it can release their fears, build their understanding of how to be effectively visible, learn the tools they need to speak up and promote their work, and become more impactful in the world. 

I started my professional life as a lawyer and public policy advisor where I specialised in promoting the rights and wellbeing of Aboriginal people. Since starting my business I've been a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards, and interviewed by the ABC, Sky News, The Age, Australian Yoga Journal, and Sunday Life. 

Ready to Begin?

The Visibility Studio will run live from 28 July 2025. 

Doors will open for enrolment - at our super early bird price - in May 2025.

While many courses focus on doing more or achieving more, The Visibility Studio focuses on being more aligned, intentional, and purposeful.

It will create a foundation of clarity, confidence, and purposeful habits that support everything you do in 2025 - whether it’s advocating for your children, speaking up in your workplace, or showing up authentically in your business.

All the details

A visibility practice isn’t just about being seen - it’s about learning to see yourself more clearly.

It’s the foundation for showing up in the world with purpose, clarity, and confidence.

When you cultivate a visibility practice, you step into alignment with who you truly are and the unique impact you’re here to make.

It’s not just about what you say or do - it’s about how you embody your voice and presence every day. 

With a visibility practice supporting you, you’re able to create ripples of change that extend far beyond what you can see or imagine.