How does your usual day look like?

Every day is different, which is how I love it to be. But here is an example. My young daughter wakes me up at around 6.30am and I try to tell her three things I’m grateful for that morning before anything else. I read her books in bed before we get up to play in her tipi or go straight down to her breakfast and my huge jar of herbal tea. We often have a little morning rave in the kitchen, with my husband and I dancing and our daughter racing around us. Once she’s ready and I’ve taken her on the 3 minute walk to nursery, I go to my office in my house. Before opening my laptop, I light some palo santo and pull an oracle card, usually asking “what do I need to know today?”. I’m currently using the Seasons of the Witch series because I’m working on connecting more deeply with the seasons in my daily life, and they help as they follow the seasons too.

I try to block my days - some for working on the fund and having sessions with strategy or advisory clients, and others for mostly writing my book and recording podcast episodes (online). Around 11am, when I first feel hungry, I make myself a huge smoothie. Later in the day, when I feel I need a boost, or have a suitable gap between calls, I take a one hour walk around the national park I live next to, and try to be present rather than on the phone.

Sometimes I go to the gym in the morning too, but it’s a bit sporadic. I eat again when I feel hungry, usually in the late afternoon, or depending on if I smell delicious odours wafting up from the kitchen when my husband is creating something! My husband and I both travel for work quite a lot and are flexible, supporting each other with taking care of our daughter or dropping her off and picking her up. One of us will collect her anywhere between 4 - 6pm, depending on the day, but we try not to be later than 5pm. Then we often have precious family time and cook and eat together. Around 7pm the bedtime routine starts. I might take a bath with my daughter, or if my husband is putting her to bed that day, I sometimes return to my desk to write my book. I had been disciplined about not working in the evenings for a long time, but, I am so productive with writing in the evening. My natural rhythm is to write late and start later, but I only do that when my daughter is staying at the grandparents. I aim to turn off all devices by 9pm and leave my phone off on my desk. Then I catch up with my husband and read in bed before sleeping around 10 or 10.30pm.

What are the things you like the most about your job?

Freedom! It’s important to me that I can decide when and where I work, and what projects I want to do. I also love that I can work aligned with my values and share my views, organically building my global network of like-spirited impact pioneers. Working with incredible people is very important to me and brings me so much joy and inspiration. I genuinely am so passionate about what every one of my clients is doing, that being able to support them is deeply fulfilling. I also like that I have a mix of roles which use different parts of me, helping me grow and grow.

What are some of the skills you utilise the most in your day-to-day at work?

• Planning and organising, so I’m able to balance different roles and businesses at once.

• Writing, which is so fundamental to strategies and how I help brands, but I didn’t realise quite how much I enjoy it until I started writing my book.

• Strategic clarity, where I bring lots of opinions, stakeholders and information together to make a clear path and positioning - I get such a kick out of that process!

• But most of all, connecting. With people, collaborating, and even helping people connect more deeply with themselves.

What was one of your happiest day in your career and why?

Recently, when I got my book deal from a London publisher I admire and respect. Partly because of the accomplishment and what it means for my book, but even more because I followed the signs and synchronicities that came to me to get to that point.

That’s a whole other story, but I never would have thought I’d write a book. I felt like I was following a call to do so, and along with hard work, everything fell into place.

This gave me an immense sense of trust in the unfolding of things, of listening to what you’re being called towards, and going in that direction. Then rewards come. I find that magical.

What was the toughest career decision you ever made?

When I left my secure job as a Director in the fashion industry for an agency in London and New York.

I was living what I thought was my dream life, the success I wanted. But, it dawned upon me that there was much more out there if I would take a leap of faith. That I was living aligned with what I was told success looked like, but the day to day work did not feel aligned with my true, deeply held values. I thought, there must be more to my life than putting my skills and gifts to helping businesses sell more clothes that harm the planet and that people don’t need?

What is something you had to learn to become better at your work?

To be patient.

Rushing is my biggest weakness, which I have been actively working on for some time. Not rushing a piece of work, but rushing on the bigger picture. Seeing where I’m heading to and wanting to jump ahead, and keep moving so fast, even though I need to really just sink into the process because I need the learnings along the way to get to where I’m going in the strongest form.

How did you get to become a Strategist, Advisor, Investor, AND Podcaster?

By asking “what’s the worst that could happen?”

and realising it wasn’t that bad. I could always get another job if I needed to. But I couldn’t live with not knowing what working entrepreneurially and independently would bring, and most importantly, what allowing myself to really follow my values could unlock in myself, opportunities and others.

The rest is history! It’s been 7 years now.