Reading time: 1.27 342 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, A few weeks ago, I had a metaphorical punch in the chops. Nothing earth-shattering, just a small thing. But it showed me two things in glorious technicolour: If I put out an apologetic vibe and keep shrinking myself, I will get sidelined and treated as lesser than I am because I’m “no trouble.” What I do for and with my clients isn’t just cool, it’s crucial. It’s important. It’s what I’m here for. And I am very, very...
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Reading time: 5.01 1,192 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, I’m in Oxford right now, the city of dreaming spires, where so many books have been created… mostly by men. Today, though, I’m talking to a woman whose book is coming out in May. Samantha Harman is hosting The Gathering and she’s making the topic of her book, Just Get Dressed, the star of the show. She and I are taking to the stage to talk about it and it got me thinking about the tears I’ve shed this week. Some of...
6 days ago • 5 min read
Reading time: 2.10 512 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Sitting on the sofa, heaving great sobs from my chest, I am ugly-crying as I watch something on screen that I’ve never seen before. Season 1, episode 1, of The Good Doctor. We’re only a few minutes in and the main character is in an airport. He wrings his hands compulsively as everything around him pushes in at him: sounds, lights, smells, peoplepeoplepeople and there’s somewhere he has to be. The cacophony is...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 1.07 264 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Do you write in the margins of your books? Some people are horrified by the idea of doing that. They believe books are sacred and should not be “damaged.” I, too, believe books are sacred and there are definitely some editions of certain books I would never write in, but… Generally, I scribble notes in the margin. Books I read at school, like I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Tess of the d’Urbevilles and Hamlet are...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Reading time: 4.12 996 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, At Higher Voltage in London a couple of weeks ago, I heard Teresa Heath-Wareing speak on the current landscape for entrepreneurs and small business owners. She had a lot of truths to drop and a lot of optimism to offer. It’d be easy to think the future looks bleak, especially when the media is full of nothing but doom. And I’m not here to be a pollyanna; things are genuinely tough in a variety of fucktangular ways. BUT....
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Reading time: 4.14 1,007 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Aaaaaaand January is a wrap! After a very laid back December, I was all set to head into 2026 at maximum chill, but apparently Past Me didn’t get the memo because I spent the final two weeks of January back and forth to London twice and speaking at an event in Bristol, all of which was amazing and fun but hoooooooooooo-boy was I blaggered. Then my good friend Yinka sent her Mighty Movers email (exclusive to those of...
10 days ago • 5 min read
Reading time: 4.48 1,139 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, How many questions is too many questions? This is not rhetorical — I actually need to know, because getting it wrong has painful consequences. In conversation, we’re supposed to ask questions. We’re supposed to be interested in other people. I know this because I’ve been told many, many times over the years. And honestly, this isn’t a hardship for me because other people are endlessly fascinating to me. I’d like to...
13 days ago • 5 min read
Reading time: 1.44 409 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “She’s full of herself. Too big for her boots. Just who does she think she is?” But who else are we mean to be full of, my friend? The latest opinions fed to us by the techbro propaganda machine? The perfect tradwife the algorithm wants us to be? No thank you. We can get new boots that fit us perfectly because of course we’ve outgrown the old ones. And as for who we think we are, well, that’s a work in progress. We’re...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 0.59 232 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, “Everyone kept asking the same questions!” I was talking to my client about how her “open house” for her membership was going, and she said it was going great but that everyone kept asking her the same questions. And it was making her laugh because the book she is currently writing with me is going to answer allll those questions — so it was a real nudge to get it finished and published. Since then she’s made a ton of...
15 days ago • 1 min read