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First Dates waitress & confidence coach

Cici Coleman

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Build confidence, resilience, and healthy boundaries with Cici Coleman, human connection and mental health speaker. Known to millions as the waitress on Channel 4's BAFTA-winning First Dates, Cici works with audiences to explore self-worth, empowered decision-making, and reinvention.

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Waitress on Channel 4's BAFTA-winning First Dates
Founder of The Dating Reset confidence workshops
Motivational speaker on resilience, boundaries, and self worth

Cici Coleman is a presenter, actress, and dating confidence coach best known for her 12-year role on Channel 4's BAFTA award-winning series First Dates. Over more than a decade on one of Britain’s most recognisable television programmes, Cici has observed more than 4,000 real first encounters unfold, giving her a rare insight into human behaviour, emotional intelligence, communication, and the patterns that shape how people connect and make decisions. Alongside her television career, she has navigated an unconventional personal and professional journey, from banking at HSBC and studying acting in New York, to rebuilding her life after personal loss, toxic relationships, and significant career setbacks. These experiences led Cici to create The Dating Reset, a workshop series focused on women’s confidence, self-worth, boundaries, and healthier relationship dynamics. Today, she speaks on resilience, reinvention, emotional awareness, and courageous decision-making, exploring how the same behaviours that shape relationships also influence leadership, workplace culture, confidence, and performance. Blending humour, honesty, and practical frameworks, Cici helps audiences recognise behavioural patterns, communicate boundaries more effectively, rebuild confidence after setbacks, and make braver personal and professional choices. Her talks leave audiences with a stronger sense of self-trust, emotional clarity, and perspective on navigating change. Book Cici Coleman for insightful conversations on resilience, confidence, reinvention, and the human side of growth.

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Rock Bottom To Reinvention: Turning Setbacks Into Your Comeback

Setbacks rarely arrive with a roadmap for recovery, and most people face them without knowing how to move forward. In this session, Cici Coleman draws on her own story of loss, career pivots, a toxic relationship, and rebuilding from the ground up alongside more than 4,000 real dates witnessed on First Dates to explore how resilience is built rather than found. Cici shows how identity can evolve through difficult chapters, how to reframe failure as the starting point for reinvention, and why momentum is possible even after the hardest personal or professional lows.

Boundaries: The Skill That Upgrades Your Life And Career

Too many people treat boundaries as a confrontational act. Cici Coleman reframes them as a practical skill, one that shapes the quality of relationships, the strength of leadership, and the depth of self-respect. Drawing on her own experience as a recovering people-pleaser who grew up managing others' needs before her own, and on the patterns she has observed play out across thousands of televised dates, Cici shows what boundary-setting actually looks like in practice: in friendships, teams, and working relationships. Audiences leave with a clearer sense of what their own needs are, and the language to communicate them.

The "Deathbed Thoughts" Principle: Making Braver Life Decisions

Fear is usually the gap between where people are and where they want to be. Cici Coleman introduces a mindset shift she calls the Deathbed Thoughts principle: a framework built on a single question she asked herself after a difficult breakup, which led her to solo travel, living in Bali, and eventually moving to Sydney to pursue acting again. In this session, she walks audiences through the Happy List exercise and the deeper question of what they would regret never having tried. The result is a practical approach to courageous decision-making that reconnects people with what actually matters to them.

Why we recommend booking Cici

Cici's 12 years on Channel 4's BAFTA-winning First Dates, observing over 4,000 first encounters, and her lived experience rebuilding after setbacks make her an incisive coach and speaker on confidence, boundaries, resilience, emotional intelligence, and courageous reinvention.

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