My Story:
Overworked & Underpaid to Stress-free & Successful

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I became an expert in my field and I was very successful. I taught in London's top conservatoire drama schools, became Head of department for an enormous arts organisation managing a team of sixty five creative educators and overseeing the programming, management, hiring talent and budgets of hundreds of courses and productions. I was at the top of my game but I wasn't happy...

Then the pandemic hit.

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I was 'let go' 2 months before I qualified for redundancy. 

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I lost all my income overnight, no warning, no furlough, no government grant. I had around 3 months before we wouldn't be able to make rent. 

I had to pivot FAST.

I started a new company teaching acting workshops online. These classes were, for some people, their only human contact. There were students who let me know that my classes saved their lives and I am immenseley proud of what I did during that time.

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I continued for 4 years and I loved the actual coaching. But the stress was always there. It was always too much.

I found myself in chronic stress again, panicking, overworking and in danger of getting sick again.

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It was a recipe that could have undone all my work to heal and recover...

but little did I know it was showing me the core of what I really wanted to do.

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After travelling back and forth from LA for creative rest trips, inspiration and reflection, I realised thatt throughout my career I had helped hundreds of people become more confident, empowered, strategic and skilled and I wanted to do more of that...

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It was never about acting or actors. I worked across many industries...

It was about people being seen, heard and valued.

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I had to gamble and move on. 

This was the first time EVER that I 'gave up' on something by choosing my needs first.

Since then I have grown a lot and have been listening to the part of my work that makes me happiest (truly happiest) which is the deep work. Helping someone realise they are not defined by their job, that they don't need outside validation, that they don't have to suffer to succeed, that we are all capable of more than what we can see.

Being stressed is a choice and you CAN change if you're willing to undo the habit. 

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I have worked hard to dig deeper into my training in brain health, cognitive function, impacts of stress, sleep and trauma on the body as well as neuro-divergence, somatics, anxiety management, as well as building a wealth of tools I give my clients daily for productivity, ease and creative mindset.

I've also developed my much needed network of badass women so I have the support I need too.

(Boy what an impact real support has!)

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I invested in my own business coach, became more confident in my own boundaries, let go of the relationships that were not serving me. I made my own rules unapologetically.

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So now I work less, I work deeper, I earn more, I am valued, I am healthier and I am happy.

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Now I truly put myself first. My career, my relationships, my daily life have all improved as a result. I am energised and I am excited by just how much is possible.

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Now I am using this experience to coach others who know what it's like to not be seen, to spend a lot of time giving, doing and pushing, striving, hustling and living in chronic stress, but who can't seem to find happiness.

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It is possible to build on what you have, to be incredible successful, loved and abundant and to find the balance you need and live an incredible life,

if you know how.

​It took me over a decade to learn these tools and now I get to condense all of that learning, that resilience and my perspective into a simple process, specifically for other people who need space to be vulnerable, need to stop, to be confused, to feel all the feelings, to plan what is next, to question openly, to take action, to not be judged, to pivot and to put their needs first...

I get to help people just like you....​​​

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If my story resonates and you want to have a chat,

book a call with me today and let's have a chat about how I can support you, or your business.​​​