23/02/2026
Seven years ago, I made a decision that felt fearless… and was fuelled by pure naïvety.
I left a successful legal career to start my own wellbeing company.
I thought qualifications + experience = clients.
They didn’t.
What nobody tells you about entrepreneurship 👇
Expertise is not the same as running a business.
Suddenly, you’re everything - strategy, sales, marketing, finance - while managing your own doubt, pressure, and energy.
Then life accelerated the learning curve.
Within months:
➡️ Scammed out of thousands
➡️ Diagnosed with uterine cancer
➡️ Thrown into early menopause at 44
➡️ Income stopped
The day after leaving hospital, I delivered a two-hour workshop because there was no safety net.
That workshop won an award.
But the real lesson was this:
There’s a difference between pushing through and intelligently enduring.
To stay afloat, I worked wherever I could - PT sessions, consulting, bar shifts. No glamour. Just persistence.
Lockdown unexpectedly changed everything:
🔆 First bestselling book
🔆 Global talks
🔆 Supporting teams across 55+ countries
Until leadership changed and the wellbeing budget disappeared overnight.
Hard lesson:
Never rely on one source of success.
There were slower seasons. Reinventions. Even moments that nudged me back toward burnout.
And yet - still here. Still building. Still helping organisations understand burnout beyond buzzwords.
Seven years has clarified one truth:
Life is not linear.
It’s a constantly redrawn map.
Detours aren’t failure.
Setbacks aren’t proof you chose wrong.
Rerouting is often the smartest move.
Are you forcing the route… or adjusting the direction?
Sustainable performance, at work and in life, rests on quiet disciplines:
✅ Listen to your body
✅ Protect your energy
✅ Change course without guilt
Your reset check:
– What needs to go?
– What needs to return?
Progress is often subtraction, not addition.
