Hello!

 
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My mission is to help women create lives they love filled with work they love, freedom, purpose and a great income.

 

Does that sound too good to be true? I remember when I would have thought so too. Now, this is how I would describe the life I have created. It is also the lives my clients are creating too.

It’s painful to me that so many people don’t like their working lives. So many people have dreams they can’t make real. The fact that women are still underpaid, underrepresented, discriminate against and disempowered. I’ve experienced this and I know it can be overcome.

 
 

My gift is that I love to listen to you. I love really understanding where you’re coming from and where you want to get to. My clients say that they realise that no one has ever really listened to them before our sessions.

My gift is that I can see your potential. I can see the best possible future you could create. You inspire me with your dreams, ideas or the whispers you can’t ignore.

My training, education and experience means I have the skills to help you take the action you need to.

 

Weaknesses Into Strengths

I was a manager, leader and employee for 15 years. I had entrepreneurial desires but couldn’t make them a reality.

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Instead, I worked in as many different places, roles and sectors as I could. I loved learning about new fields and areas. I was voracious. I worked in the private, public and charity sector. I worked in product, fundraising, marketing, consultancy, training, data science and more. I didn’t have just one or two career changes, I had a truly squiggly career.

When I was an employee, the diversity and breath of my experience was seen as a weakness. When I spoke to headhunters, I could see they found it difficult to categorize me. I felt out of place.

Now, my broad, eclectic, diverse experience benefits my clients. My clients want a coach and mentor who has real world leadership experience and success in multiple domains. They tell me they are inspired by the career changes I made and want to know how to make changes themselves.

 

The Turning Point

In 2015, everything changed. I returned to my leadership role after maternity leave. I felt confident. I had outperformed all my KPIs for years. I had years of glowing performance reviews.

I returned to my leadership role but was offered a stark choice. Demotion or leave. I had read about this happening to other women after maternity leave but never dreamed it would happen to me.

After the shock (and the tears), I decided to leap. Leap into self employment. I created a social media marketing business, created a website and got out there to find clients. I build a client base and a good revenue.

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I am now thankful that I did. 6 years as a freelancer, self employed, entrepreneur, has taught me so much and I am so glad to be able to share that with others. I can now combine mentoring and coaching to give my clients what they need.

I now have the freedom to create the life I want to live.

The freedom to live where I chose, work where and when I was most productive, work with people I love working with and have time to be professionally successful and spend all the time I wanted to with my children. The freedom to make as much positive impact and money as I knew I could make.

Freedom from self-doubt, low pay, imposter syndrome, being undervalued and the expectations of others holding me back.

 

Creating My Life

Life is a continuous act of creation.

Whilst you are stretching yourself, overcoming your fears and creating your life, I will be right there beside you.

Here’s some highlights of the life I’m creating:

  • I’m creating a life filled with travel and adventure. I’ve lived and worked in UAE, France, USA, Sweden and more. When we can, I will be blending that into my life.

  • I’m creating a business that allows me to swim, dance or read at anytime of the day.

  • I’m manifesting impact and income through my business and my philanthropy and volunteering. In the last year alone, I’ve been an NHS First Responder, Volunteer Vaccinator and more.

  • I’m raising my two beautiful (and stretching) young children. Being a parent is one of the most personally most demanding things you can do and I’m learning all the time.

  • I’m creating a life with the time and money to study and learn whatever I want to. Alongside postgraduate study in psychology, I am learning about cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy, mental health and more.

 

Straight Talk

I am not one of those ‘become a passive income millionaire tomorrow with my secret formula’ type of coaches.

I do tell it straight when it is of benefit to you.

You can become the creator of your life. It's not always easy, comfortable or simple. No one's life is. Especially not when you combine family and working.

My life is far from perfect but the struggles and difficulties are worth it.

A perfect life is not your goal. The goal is a life you love with all the imperfections.

 

Organisations I’ve worked with

 
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