How to survive hard things: ↓ Hey Reader, It's been thirteen months since I last had any meaningful income and entered the worst mental health crisis I've had in many years. It's eight months since I got evicted from the home I loved and was forced to move 200 miles from the first community I've ever felt a part of, and the life I'd been building for almost a decade. And almost three months since I launched my offers, hoping they'd be the bridge between terror and stability as my freelance...
4 days ago • 5 min read
The difference between giving up and letting go (hint: one of them sets you free) ↓ Hey Reader, I have ALWAYS struggled with letting go of outcomes. I’ve had high expectations of myself for as long as I can remember, and often ended up hurt when I expected from others what I would do - because others rarely show up the same way. And as a lifelong perfectionist, I’ve often had a picture in my head of how something should be…only to feel that sharp sting of disappointment when reality didn’t...
18 days ago • 4 min read
When Creative Solutions Pay Off (Literally) ↓ Hey Reader, As this email lands in your inbox, I'm unpacking my case in a spacious beachfront property with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the sea. August sunshine streams across polished floors, and dances across the waves, and here's the kicker - I'm being paid to be here. Plot twist: I'm cat-sitting. Last October, after getting the third no-fault eviction on my London home and knowing that, this time, there would be no legal loophole to...
25 days ago • 4 min read
...what changed everything: ↓ Hey Reader, Last week I pressed publish on my website after rebuilding it from the ground up. No budget, no coding experience, just me and my determination to build something that would showcase what I offer. The entire rebuild took under three weeks. The first time I built this same website? Six MONTHS of agony. Six months of staring blankly at my screen, endlessly tweaking copy that said nothing, researching competitors until my eyes burned, and starting over...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
How to show up when everything in you wants to hide... ↓ Hey Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the same conversation with introverts in totally different contexts: a business owner, a jobseeker and an aspiring content creator. Different goals. Same invisible wall: “I feel like I’m begging for attention.” “I have to be online. But I don't like it.”"I worry what people will think of me.” "I have a picture in my head of how to be. But it's not my way." Each of them knows that visibility...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The secret to figuring out what you really want from life. ↓ Hey Reader, Last week, we talked about clarity - and how it doesn't arrive in a lightning bolt (if you missed it, you can read it here). But here's what I didn't mention: even when you start building that clarity, the overwhelm doesn't magically disappear. You've taken that first small step, but now you're staring at a dozen possible paths, paralysed by the fear of choosing wrong. For introverts especially, this in-between space can...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Still unsure? Start here. ↓ Hey Reader, A few years ago I won a free coaching session with Jill Stanton of Screw the 9 to 5. I was thrilled. Here was this brilliant entrepreneur offering me her time and expertise - exactly what I thought would finally get me unstuck. I'd been following her and Josh and the business they'd built as digital nomads whilst dreaming of being able to achieve a similar level of time and location freedom for years. But when we got on the call and she asked what I...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
This is for the days when everything is too much... ↓ Hey Reader, "Just now, putting on my shoes is winning." When a community member told me this, it resonated: I've been there. In fact, I was there last Wednesday, which was a particularly difficult day. It's what happens when your nervous system is so fried that basic human tasks require energy you don't have. Your brain is doing exactly what it's designed to do when resources are scarce: focus on immediate survival, not long-term...
2 months ago • 3 min read
The intelligence you've been ignoring lives in your body ↓ Hey Reader, I'm not where I thought I'd be by now. In January, my life imploded. I lost everything and this newsletter was actually part of my plan to rebuild from the rubble - my first Odyssey plan (a potential future path where I could combine a passion with building a lil' one person online business). I thought by now I'd have it all figured out. That I'd be further along in rebuilding, earning the sort of income you see others...
2 months ago • 4 min read