Are you prepared to say NO to opportunities that don’t serve you? Yes, I mean straight up, walking away, declining the offer, withdrawing from an interview process, telling a recruiter that the role does not meet your needs and backing your decision. This does mean being rude, arrogant or disrespectful.  Yes it can feel like you are letting someone down.  Trust me, you are actually doing everyone a favour.  Over the last few weeks the increase in interviews is apparent both with my clients and from what I am seeing on the market. This means that whilst there may be multiple oppo ..read more

Do you know the difference between ‘worth’ and ‘value’ when it comes to salary negotiations? This is something that I have seen come up time and time again with salary discussions. Your worth and value are very different. Being clear about what is up for negotiation is critical to how you come out of these discussions feeling. The key with salary negotiations is understanding that you are demonstrating your value the moment you send through your CV, throughout your interviews and then finally, at the actual salary negotiation discussion. The value you demonstrate throughout the entire process ..read more

You can do anything you put your heart to. I always considered myself a corporate career gal. First time I landed in Canary Wharf the sun was setting and the light was beaming into the station entrance and I rolled up on the escalator feeling like I was Beyonce entering centre stage. I looked up at those skyscrapers and said to myself I will be living my corporate dream within 6 months. Even though I had a home, and boyfriend firmly rooted in Devon, I did it. It was a dream I had for years. It started as a seed, a crazy ambitious I saw and heard other people do but had no idea how. Over the co ..read more

Making a choice to change your life, level up your career and do something that truly sets a fire under your soul can be one of the most liberating, life changing experiences of your life.  This is the kind of stuff that lottery winners DREAM OF.  Seriously, if you asked me, would I take 1 million pounds or take the journey I started on 3 years ago to get to where I am today, I would take the journey.  Why? ARE YOU MAD? I’ll tell you why. It’s a statistical fact that most lottery winners lose it all within a few years of obtaining their riches. Why? Because they’re mindset wasn ..read more

On Friday morning just after 9am, whilst I was enjoying my morning coffee and a catch up with one of my oldest friends, I got disturbed by the sound of fog horns and men banging on my door shouting ‘EVACUATE, EVACUATE, FIRE, FIRE!’. As I opened my front door to the beautiful, cosy apartment me and my partner had moved into just 6 months prior, I felt that this wasn’t a drill. My partner was in the office for the first time in a long time so unusually I was home alone. As I came back inside and looked around at my possessions deciding what to grab. I also recall vaguely noticing the faint sme ..read more

4 Reasons why you haven’t started looking for a new job (even though you know you really need to). In a survey of over 200 people the length of time that someone knew they were unhappy and the time it took for them to do something about it ranged between 3months and 20 years. My jaw hit the floor at the 20 year one! The most common responses were between 6-24 months. That is still a very long to be doing a job that makes you unhappy. What was interesting is that until it got really bad, nothing was done about it. So what does it take for it to get really bad? I understand there is a fine ..read more

How do you know when you have outgrown your job? It’s a feeling that can creep up on you. It can be somewhat ambiguous and hard to explain. Outgrowing your job is the most common reason people feel the need to move on. Sure, sometimes we are in a job where we hate our job, our managers or a toxic environment. But sometimes career change is triggered from outgrowing your current situation, because it is different to being pushed from a role.  Whilst it can feel uncertain, the first main point to note is that this is completely normal.  You can do your job with your eyes closed The l ..read more

Zoom Fatigue is real. If you work largely from a laptop then it’s likely you have been thrown into a world of virtual meetings and working from home throughout this pandemic. Zoom Fatigue is the exhaustion you feel from being in virtual meetings all day. It is very different to the office experience, even though we also work long days. There are notable differences even neuroscientists are acknowledging which make constant virtual presence particularly taxing. So why is this? Our laptops, even with mega fast internet and no delays at best still hold a fraction of a delay that our brain’s other ..read more

Feeling tired? 5 hacks to stay productive. See, regardless of whether you work for an 8-6 (let’s face it, no one actually just works 9-5 these days) or if you run your own biz, some days we simply wake up exhausted. Here are 5 hacks to help you get through it and still smash your day. 1. Grace. Give yourself some grace, today is not the day to go above and beyond. Some days it’s okay to just get through it and be happy you showed up. 2. Systems. Success is defined by systems. Stick to your systems, routine, structure as much as possible. On a super basic level, there is a reason successful peo ..read more

“I have the resilience and presence to stay focused on my greater purpose, no matter what life throws at me.” If you were part of my FB Group workshop; How to Build a Resilience Mindset you will know that resilience is simply a tool we all have within us. We can use this tool to overcome whatever challenges we face, whether they are internal or external.  Resilience is when: We take action regardless of the feelings and stories we tell ourselves. We do this by becoming aware of your conscious thought patterns, learning to practice self care when you are down, and transforming unhelpful ..read more