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They were NEVER going to find me out 🤫
Hello beautiful soul
I want to tell you about the day I got the job at Shazam in 2013.
I had been in recruitment for thirteen years by that point. Thiiiiiiiirteeeeeeeeeeen years. But I had spent those years agency side — and in those days, those who are in People, Culture and Talent will know th...
May 11, 2026
Why did we shrink to begin with?
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May 04, 2026
Tell me it isn't just me.
Hello beautiful soul
I want to tell you something that still makes me shake my head when I think about it.
I had already GOT the job.
The offer was made. The contract was coming. I was going to be VP People at Onfido — a fast-moving, ambitious tech company — and they had chosen me. After a rigor...
Apr 27, 2026
62 million visits. In one month.
Hello beautiful soul
62 million visits. In one month.
(CNN report here)
I don’t actually care how you break that down — that is still millions of men.
Let that land.
Because what sits underneath that number is real.
Spaces where men are sharing how to harm women. Tactics. Advice. Normalisation o...
Apr 20, 2026
It isn't fearlessness. It's integrity.
Hello beautiful soul
It’s Sunday night.
You’re lying in bed, exhausted… but you can’t sleep. Your mind is replaying that conversation from the end of last week.
Over and over again.
What you said.What you didn’t say.What you wish you’d said.
You managed to push it away all weekend.
But now it’s ...
Apr 13, 2026
This is what happens when you stop editing yourself ✨
Hello beautiful soul
The parts of you that you think are the weirdest?
They’re often the parts that create the DEEPEST connection.
I saw this so clearly recently when I was in Florida for my TED talk.
Magical...? Yep.
But honestly, something just as magical also happened off stage.Â
It was meet...
Apr 06, 2026
Your weird. Your wild. Your wonderful.
Hello beautiful soul
I want to show you something.
My icon slash logo.Â
Two shapes perhaps...?Two people maybe...?Â
Nope. One person. The two sides of you.Â
The 2nd one is the “right way up.”The first is "upside down".
And this isn’t an accident.
Because most of us have been taught to live — an...
Mar 30, 2026
PSA: Say no to the work dinner, when you need to say no to the work dinner 🫡
Hello beautiful soul
I said no to the dinner before my TEDx talk.Â
Not because the people weren’t wonderful.They were.
Not because I didn’t want to be there.I did.
But because I knew what I needed.Â
I needed to sleep.I needed to be clear.I needed to wake up feeling like myself.
And I made no exc...
Mar 23, 2026
One exercise + one conversation that could change everything for you 🫡
Hello beautiful soul
Wow, WHAT A GIFT that was.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to stand on a TEDx stage and speak about a topic that has shaped so much of my life and work.
And honestly, it was such an incredible feeling.
The talk itself centred on imposter syndrome and my perspective o...
Mar 16, 2026
What happens when you finally see behind the curtain đź‘€
Hello beautiful soul
I was working with a client 1:1 this week. Anyone who has worked with me will know I love a wild analogy, and this is no different.
I was talking to her about the Wizard of Oz.
(Stay with me.)
Because one of the cleverest tricks patriarchy ever pulled was grooming us to beli...
Mar 09, 2026
You are allowed to create your own blueprint đź’™
Hello beautiful soul
There was a moment early in my career when I realised something quietly unsettling.
I couldn’t find the kind of leader I wanted to be anywhere around me.
In fact, worse than that, the leadership I saw, in particular from a lot of senior women, gave me the ick.Â
I had started...
Mar 02, 2026
What if bold didn't have to be loud?
Hello beautiful soul
This week I want to talk about BOLDness.
Not the loud, performative kind. The real kind.
The grounded, embodied, sometimes quiet but deeply undeniable kind of voice that changes rooms without needing to dominate them.
Last week, Ness Monsequeira and I hosted an intimate roun...
Feb 23, 2026
