Hey Reader, Happy Saturday. Pour whatever you're having - this one's a slow-morning read, not a between-meetings scroll. This week I went along to Holly Nixon's Creating Connections event. If you don't know Holly, she is quite simply a master networker - not in the slightly icky "collects business cards" sense, but in the genuine, rare sense of knowing an enormous number of brilliant people and spending her energy connecting them to each other rather than just to herself. I left buzzing about...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader! You might have noticed I went quiet last week. No newsletter. No rambling. Nothing. That’s because it was my birthday, and I decided that the greatest gift I could give myself was a week where I didn’t have to be clever on demand. (Also cake. There was a lot of cake.) But while I was off being a year older and absolutely no wiser at all, things kept happening. Which, funnily enough, is exactly what this email is about. But first, let me catch you up. A new podcast episode...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Well hello June! And I don't know about you, but I feel like this week was a month long! In the first week of June, I've covered a lot of ground: Nic Mooney and I booked the venue for In Demand, By Design I gave three mentoring sessions I had two coaching sessions I ran the last session of Create Your Own Category I wrote an award application for a client I attended my Athena Network meeting I made 16 personal offers to people I genuinely believe I can help And I got my nails done (because...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Happy Weekend! So I just got back from the opticians. Me and the boy are both glasses wearers, and we've both had our "your eye test is overdue" letters in the past few weeks, so off we trotted down to Specsavers to have those little puffs of air shot into our eyes. And lo, we both have new prescriptions - the boy's eyes are slightly better (hooray for no longer secret reading in the dark!), my eyes are slightly worse (boo to being vain and not wearing my glasses half as often as I'm supposed...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Hey stunner, I’m writing this with that slightly knackered-but-buzzing feeling you get after something really good has happened. Yesterday, I hosted my very first Socially Shared meeting as the Sutton & Coleshill host. I won't play it down - it was a cracker. A full room. Proper conversations. Women actually talking to each other, not just swapping Instagram handles and legging it. People left with new connections, new opportunities, and the foundations of their 2026 marketing strategy...
9 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader! Happy New Year - and welcome to 2026! January always arrives with a strange mix of pressure and possibility, don't you think? Everyone telling you to “start fresh”, “go bigger”, “post more”, “sell harder”… while your nervous system is still recovering from mince pies and end-of-year exhaustion. So this month, I want to do something different. Rather than overloading you with even more actions to do at a time when (clearly) our bodies want to be slowing down and hibernating, I'm...
10 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader! Fuck. I owe you an apology with this note. I’ve gone a bit quiet these last couple of weeks. I’ve been intentionally winding things down. Closing loops. Clearing space. Giving myself time to recover from what I think has been, for so many of us, one of the hardest years - in business and in life. I wanted to let this year land properly before I rush headlong into the next one. But I didn’t want the year to end without a final check in, sharing what’s coming, and giving you...
10 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader! Almost two years ago, a good friend of mine, Nic Mooney (my best friend and future podcast co-host, though neither of us knew that then) had invited me along to her new networking meeting. She had just become a host for the Socially Shared Women's Business Network, and in all honesty, I didn't really get it. It felt strange to me that she'd thrown her lot in with this other brand - I couldn't understand why she'd give her time to this thing that wasn't her incredible business, and...
11 months ago • 4 min read
It's Friday again! Kids are back at school, life is returning to normal and hopefully your head is pretty much back in the game. And if it is, hopefully you're thinking about how to make Q4 the best quarter you've ever had. If that's you - if you're dreaming BIG this month, I've got you. My newsletters this month are going to give you one tip each week to help you prep for a Q4 that brings in sales. Let's start with what you're not doing One of the biggest mistakes I see founders make is...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read