How just 5 minutes a day could change EVERYTHING! ↓ Hey Reader, Long before GPS existed, Polynesian navigators crossed thousands of miles of open ocean without maps. They followed the stars, currents, and winds - reading nature's clues to find their way.This was called wayfaring. And it might be exactly what you need in your life right now. Unlike a road trip with a clear destination, life doesn't have a single endpoint. There's no "you have arrived" announcement. Instead, we navigate by...
2 days ago • 4 min read
How life design becomes your professional advantage ↓ Hey Reader, If the phrase 'personal branding' makes you want to retreat and hide, you're not alone. For introverts, the idea of 'showing up' online can feel like an exhausting performance. Yet, in 2025, the reality is that a personal brand is the new CV. Employers are actively seeking candidates with strong personal brands and for those of us building a business, our personal brands are even more important than our business brands, as...
9 days ago • 3 min read
Why trying to do everything yourself isn’t a flex - it’s holding you back. ↓ Hey Reader, Last week, I sent a text that took every ounce of courage I had. I've already shared how after being evicted from my London home, losing my main client, and retreating to a hometown where I've never belonged, I'd hit rock bottom. Friends had offered their spare rooms. Their support. Their help. But something inside me kept waiting for the 'perfect' invitation - one where I wouldn't feel like I was...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Your Golden Compass for a life that will feel like yours: ↓ Hey Reader, Have you ever looked around and wondered, How did I get here? It’s surprisingly easy to end up on a path that was never really ours. Maybe it’s the job that looks good on paper but drains you, or the life choices shaped by other people’s expectations rather than your own desires. At Stanford University’s Life Design Lab, students use a simple but powerful tool to avoid this trap: The Compass. [If you got the reference in...
23 days ago • 4 min read
What I’m doing when I don’t feel like doing anything ↓ Hey Reader, The last few months have tested me in ways I never expected. Losing my home, starting again from scratch...none of it has been easy. And when life feels unstable, health and wellbeing are often the first things to slip. If you were here for my first ever edition of i-Unbound, then you'll know the main area of focus identified by my life design dashboard was my health and wellbeing. My mental health has been very bad for a very...
30 days ago • 4 min read
How to stand out without selling out ↓ Hey Reader, Last Thursday, I led my signature Personal Branding for Introverts masterclass for Lea Turner's The HoLT - a business membership group. You may already have heard of Lea from LinkedIn (aka Lea does LinkedIn). She and I were chatting before we admitted the attendees and she told me that this is a topic that comes up a lot within her community.This is something that I hear time and time again: most introverts think personal branding means...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
What if the end was actually the beginning? ↓ Hey Reader, I don’t think I’ve ever felt more out of control than I have this past week. It was as if everything in my life came crashing down all at once, and I was left doggy paddling in the middle of the ocean without a life raft. If you've been in my community for a while, you'll know that I was ‘exiled’ from the life I loved in London at the end of January due to a double whammy of getting a no-fault eviction AND losing my main, regular,...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
How to Stop Wasting Energy on the Wrong Problems ↓ Hey Reader,Ever feel like you’re running in circles, trying to fix something that just won’t budge? It’s exhausting. But what if the problem isn’t actually solvable? Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, authors of Designing Your Life, call these gravity problems. A gravity problem is something you can’t change...like the fact that networking events drain you, or that society favours extroverts. You can fight against it all you want, but you won’t...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
A simple shift in thinking can save you years. Here’s how: ↓ Hey Reader,Sometimes, our problems can feel so overwhelming we don't even try to solve them.Instead, we just try to find a way to live with them.Our problems become our stories and we can all get stuck in our stories, wasting endless time.Sound familiar?What you're about to read will help you save months, years or even decades of your time! To get unstuck, you need to start thinking like a designer.And when you're feeling...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read