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Recently, I’ve become a pirate.

Not the bad kind who steal stuff.

A ...

I’m not going to lie, things are tough right now.

Yesterday I felt more drained and flat than I possibly have ever felt before. It wasn’t very nice, but today is a new day and things feel less bleak. This week I feel wrapped in layers of loss. Loss of my dear dad, but also loss of hugging brilliant p...

This year I’ve become “an expert” in a surprising range of things. I lost all my contracts I’d lined up for 2020/2021 by mid April. Some were frozen, others cancelled. Grieving for the year I thought I was going to have, and grieving for what at the time, felt like the end of my career as I knew it ...

It’s an ongoing point of discussion in every self employed or small business sector I’ve been involved with. How can you price yourself in a way that reflects your worth but also creates a sustainable thriving business?

There’s also the thorny issue of working for free.

A subject that is a continual ...

I want to tell you about my shed. It’s quite a long story. Potentially a little dull. It is, after all, a blog post about a shed.

It’s smart though, isn’t it?  My smart shed.

Some people close to me have heard a lot about this shed over the last couple of years.

It’s just a shed. Not a fancy outdoor...

Since 2014 I have dipped in and out of Yoga With Adriene (YWA) on YouTube. At some points I’ve cultivated the daily practice she gentle encourages her viewers to adopt. And then life gets in the way... But unlike that ill-fated gym membership or the bike that sits neglected in the shed, I always fin...

I work with a lot of people who are exploring or embarking on the transition from employment to self-employment for the first time. There’s lots of things to unpick around this move, from dealing with increased risk to how to plan and have a strategy that works for that person and their business.

One...

This is the smile of someone who has achieved something she didn't feel very certain about.

There's been a bit of that going on lately: a dive into the unknown because my instincts tell me that it's the right thing to do. Covid has played a part in this, as it has for so many of us. The career abys...

Kindness is one of my core values.  

My others, if you’re curious, are Optimism and Grit.  Of course, there are loads of other values that I hold dear, but those three form a foundation for me; a triangular anchor to steady my ship in a storm or provide me with the momentum to get on with stuff.

I’m w...

Today the sun is forecast to shine all day.

A day after the summer solstice and midsummer night.

And it is my half birthday or as Alice might call it, my un-birthday.

Let me tell you a story about my half birthday and why I’ve found so much joy in celebrating the half rather than the whole.

I was born t...

This is the blog I wish I had found when I first spotted a bald patch on my head and my heart gripped with fear.

It started with a small patch of partial alopecia areata in 2001.  It came after a particularly stressful time with work:  I’m not ashamed to say that I had a difference of opinion with my...