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WHAT HAS OUR NEW PM GOT TO DO WITH RUNNING A BUSINESS?
More than you might think. Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street on Monday of this week. He's a working-class kid from Lancashire whose dad was a telephone engineer and mum was a GP's receptionist – and whose first ever job was collecting the football pools door to...
Are You Proud Enough To Show Up?
I’m writing this from Peterborough Pride. Or rather, I’m writing it knowing that by the time you read it on Saturday morning, Asha and I will be there – in the crowd, in the colour, in the noise of a community that has spent decades being told it doesn’t deserve to...
WHERE DID YOUR VAVA VOOM GO?
Something is happening out there, and I think we need to talk about it. I'm hearing it from more and more people right now, and I've been part of it too. Fed up, burned out, maybe a little bit depressed, frustrated, feeling like we're failing – and this is the really...
NOBODY GETS TO DECIDE HOW WE’RE SUPPOSED TO WORK
Who decided what a “proper” working day was supposed to look like? Not me. Not you. Somebody else entirely, a long time ago, and the rest of us have spent our whole careers trying to fold ourselves into a shape we never agreed to. Up early. Structured hours. A to-do...
THIS IS THE PEAK OF IT
We've just passed the summer solstice, and if you work with the medicine wheel or walk any kind of earth-based path, you'll feel it – one of the most powerful thresholds in the whole year. Six months of building and stretching towards the light, and here we are at the...
THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY SOMEWHERE
Something has shifted in the last few months, and if you're running your own business right now – as a coach, a healer, a therapist, a creative, a consultant, any kind of sole trader – I suspect you've felt it. The financial pressure that started biting the bigger...
WHEN THE WORLD TELLS YOU TO MAKE YOURSELF SMALLER
Asha and I sat up until the small hours on Sunday to binge the final three episodes of Tip Toe. If you haven't come across it yet – it's Russell T Davies' new Channel 4 drama, set in Manchester's Gay Village, about two neighbours who've lived side by side for 15 years...
WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SAYING WHEN YOU SAY “I CAN’T AFFORD IT”?
We've entered June, the days are longer, the energy is shifting, and if you're anything like most of the people I work with, somewhere in the back of your mind, there's a reckoning happening about the year so far – what you've done, what you haven't, what you told...
THE MUSEUM IN YOUR HEAD
I want to introduce you to a concept today that's been one of the most consistently useful things I've ever taken into a coaching session, and I've been using it for long enough now that I can say with some confidence it works – not just for my clients, but for me...
WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR ANGER?
There's an old saying that's been doing the rounds for long enough that most people have heard some version of it, even if they can't quite place where it came from. Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. I've also heard it...