Back in 2018 I started out the year as a Head of Finance and a single mum to a 2.5 yr old. It'd taken me years of hard work, proving myself and exams to get there. I'd always thought that's what I wanted, the high powered career, it's what I'd always worked towards.

The truth was though that the job took over my life, I dropped my toddler off at 7.30am when nursery opened in the morning heading straight to work and I was always late picking him up at 6pm as I struggled to leave the office on time, and it didn't stop there, once home there was always emails coming in all evening and it was expected that I'd answer straight away as the morning would be too late. And it was the same as weekends. I didn't have a life I didn't see my son and it was never going to change, in fact the better I did at work the more they expected of me and I realised fairly quickly that there was no more to give.

Something needed to change.

I took the plunge and left my job and found a part time bookkeeping role.

Fast forward 18months and I was in a relationship, I was expecting my second child and still in the part time role. My eldest had started a pre-school nursery so now he did school hours and term time only. And I was stuck once more.

Although I did short hours I was still missing out. The business I worked for wouldn't let me flex my hours for school finish times so I was still spending on childcare everyday to get him picked up which was money I begrudged paying out as I really wanted to spend it on my son and baby on the way, I only had 20days holiday a year so I had to choose which school holidays I spent with him and if anything happened at school that I wanted to attend I had to lose a holiday to use at another time.

It turned out to not be the best experience being pregnant at my place of work and in the end I found myself out of work at 7months pregnant.

I didn't know what I was going to do, I decided to start up my own business, I loved helping people, I had some great transferable skills to help businesses so my first business as a VA was created.

I knew I didn't want to go back to the restrictions of the corporate world after welcoming baby to the world so I needed my VA business to cover my part time salary around the kids. It wasn't too long before I achieved that, with a few different regular clients on the books.

Things on the outside were looking great but although I was helping businesses which I love, I felt like I was trapped in a time for money exchange and I needed a shift.

I was introduced through my VA work to funnels. I loved them was fascinated by them, excited by the potential they had and big role they played in business and found it strange more people didn't know about them, so I pivoted my business and became funnel focused.

The pivot led to awesome opportunities being head hunted by a client to work for them directly, travel to the USA for training, huge changes in peoples businesses just for understanding and implementing this.

But still something wasn't quite right, I was still helping businesses but not in the way I truly felt aligned with. I did a lot of soul searching, pivoting and it was finally on an NLP training day that I realised what I actually should be doing, something I'd been incorporating into my other businesses all along and absolutely loving and making a difference with. Business strategy and coaching. So here I am having helped over 50 businesses already on my entrepreneurial journey, balancing business with mum life having proudly attended every school event in the last 2 years and being present in the holidays, looking to help more coaches grow their business and their impact through adding simple Business Strategy and Coaching, helping more coaches get the structure they need into their passion driven businesses. I'm so excited I can't wait to help you all even more.

Lots of exciting things on the horizon, all aligned with exactly where I want to be and that's helping you with your business.