The Not-a-Blog
One page. Many things. All worth your tea break.
This isn’t a blog in the traditional sense. It’s more of a home for the stuff I’ve got to say, in whatever shape it lands.
You’ll find published articles, original blog posts and the occasional Tuesday email that escaped the inbox and wandered over here.
Some posts are practical. Some are personal.
All are written without jargon or filler; just tips and ideas that make you nod, grab a Post-it, and feel a bit less like you’re making it up as you go.
What’s in a Name?
I’ve now been in business doing what I do for more than 7 years. What I do is coach and support SBLs to step into their superpowers and be their amazing superhero selves. And I absolutely love it! Recently, I…
State of the Nation
When the overwhelm kicks in (which it inevitably does), our first instinct as a SBL is to keep running, headlong into the fray, cape billowing and sword scything through anything that threatens to stop us. We do this in the…
How to Stop Overthinking
Being an SBL, we are permanently thinking about a million and one things. It’s how we manage to keep so many plates spinning simultaneously, but it’s also how we can walk into analysis paralysis and lose more than a few…
A timely reminder ⭐️
There’s a trend going around on social media: ‘I wish xx knew xx…’ and it got me thinking. What do I wish you knew? Right now, we’re at peak bonkersness – halfway through the academic year, spreadsheets are multiplying like…
One foot in, one foot out 🦶
Ever caught yourself mid-email, staring at the screen, completely zoned out? Five minutes gone, brain miles away, thinking about everything except what you’re meant to be doing? That’s what leaving a job feels like – like a dodgy WiFi signal…