POWER is bananas

03/02/2026

Hello, POWER In Your Pocket. 💥

The new line in POWER now has a name, official.

Its ‘working title’ POWER On-Demand felt a bit DEMAND-y and a bit SHOUTY when POWER is, and will always be, an *invitation* to move, connect, and shift.

You’re in charge. And, with POWER In Your Pocket, more so than ever before.

It’s …

That inimitable POWER soundtrack, at the touch of a button. 🍌

The answer to 'what would Elaine's bananachat say', day or night. 🍌

That empowering voice in your head that will shift you out of a funk and into your power, wherever you are in the world. 🍌

It’s, POWER In Your Pocket. 💥

The name POWER In Your Pocket - aka PIYP - came about over a dirty chai in Goat Coffee Co. after POWER on the Beach.

‘A3 bunch’ Kirsty - who regularly drives 50 minutes each way to be with the bunch for 45 minutes - was asking me about the new line in POWER, and when I explained how all-new digital bananas will work, she said …

“a bit like POWER in your pocket”

Yes. A LOT like that. 💥

POWER In Your Pocket - it’s playfully, POWER-perfect. Thanks, Kirsty.

And by naming it, it becomes a thing. Right?

Right.

For the eager bananas amongst you who have been shouting “I need you in my ears when …” after every POWER experience (when you don’t want to take your POWER headphones off) since the dawn of time, timescale for the roll out is still TBC.

January was all about the tech evolution, February is all about the recording.

Eyes peeled, it’s happening.

I’ll keep you posted on behind the scenes action, the podcast-style format, and the rockstar guests you’ll be moving with .

But for now, simply, it has a name - POWER In Your Pocket - HOW EXCITING. 💥

26/01/2026

One day ...

You're feeling 'grippy' anxious. 😬

The next, you've got a big fat sun shining out of your head (and everything feels lighter). ☀️

That was me ... Friday, peak 'grippy' anxiety. Saturday 'on the Beach with you bunch, lighter.

Sharing how I felt last week for the realness, to normalise it, and to share the bananachat that helped me.

We all feel anxious, from time to time. If we keep it inside that anxious feeling can get bigger.

And we are so much bigger than that thing that's making us feel anxious. 🍌

When I feel anxious, I practice 'getting on the outside' - observing not becoming the feeling.

I create the gap between 'I am anxious' and 'I feel anxious'. 🍌

I remind myself to let the anxious feeling move through like weather. WILD, windy weather, just like Saturday - (tough and temporary).

You are the sky, the rest is just weather. 🍌

Anxiety can feel lonely, you are never alone. Keep talking.

bananachat to keep in your pocket for when you feel anxious and/or to share with someone who's feeling anxious. ▶️

Thank you Michelle .sauna for capturing this note to self. ☀️

Now in my 44th year, a different 'grippy' anxiety started a couple of years back for me, when my hormones shifted. Not only was last week its favourite week of the month, it was a week packed full of newness and challenges which made it extra 'grippy', (tough, and temporary).

Bananachat - my words of mental strength mantras and mindfulness, inspired by words written on bananas, spoken over a banging playlist, whilst we move.

24/01/2026

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24/01/2026

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Bike Project Drop in Sessions! The Chichester Bike Project

Got questions about cycling, bike repairs, or travelling more sustainably?
Come along to our friendly drop-in session and learn how to fix your bike, build confidence, and share skills with the community. 🌍🔧

📍 Rousillon Park Community Hall
🗓 Saturday 31st January
⏰ 10am – 2pm

✨ No booking required – just come along!

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21/01/2026

This Saturday 24.01 'on the Beach, at Bracklesham, booking now 📢

Sunshine forecast ☀️

www.powerisbananas.com/events

18/01/2026

And then I got brave and peeled POWER off the years-old vision board.

Life before bananas, 2016. 📸

The passion I had for empowering people to live wild+free, wholehearted lives was there in 2016, it was just waiting for my courage to catch up (bananachat).

All the love for you bunch who make days I once dreamt of, real life in 2026.

More suits?

The suit that inspired the POWER grey / green brand colours today, custom-made when I pedaled north to south Vietnam, in 2017. 📸

My three favourite 'suits' of POWER Online, during lockdown ...

100 bananas, to celebrate 100 POWER Online Zoom 'meetings'. 🍌

365 bananaversary bunting - you bunch and your 365 banana words that best describe POWER, to celebrate one year on Zoom. 🍌

Banana yellow snow suit - the Ski Saturday edition of POWER Online, to celebrate the bunch whose POWER movement was skiing, in Sweden, whilst the rest of the bunch did their movement, somewhere else in the world. 🍌

For those of you curious about the suit evolution ... 📌

Suits started in 2000, I was a non-graduate on a graduate scheme with HSBC (top performer in Wales & the West, big 'suit'). I then went into trusts and sponsorship for charities (supporting people with Dawn's syndrome and learning disabilities, less 'suit'). Then via motorsport, champagne and other luxury brands, I left Rolls-Royce (this suit) - responsible for the VIP programme - in late 2019, to live my bananas life.

I built POWER myself from scratch over the winter of 2019/2020, on a shoestring, ready to launch just as lockdown hit (all the bonkers suits).

17/01/2026

The BUZZ Northshore Boatyard ... 💥

The - how did I miss this?! - messages that pinged in, once the word got out. 💥

The big smiles and waves and curiosity from passers by. 💥

And, your LOVE for plan b. 💥

wild+free outdoor Pop Ups, in British January, ambitious?

Not when big-hearted bunch Northshore - who know the power of community - are 'in your boat'.

To flip three bunches of POWER on the Beach (outdoors in Bracklesham), to three bunches of POWER at Northshore, (indoors at Itchenor) - plan b - within hours, also ambitious.

It means a bunch that, TOGETHER, we made it happen. 💥

Great to be back, making memories at Northshore - sponsors of POWER on the Water, in 2025. 📸

London bunch, celebrating Kit's 30th birthday. 📸

The legends who regularly travel 45 minutes each way, for 45 minutes of POWER, rocking their bananachat tote bags. 📸

Helen's POWER, WHERE PLAN B IS AWESOME banana and the gift of a Quarterdeck cafe oat cappuccino from rockstar one of the bunch passing by 📸

11/01/2026

HUGE banana pride. 💜

December 2025, when 24 toiletry items became hundreds and hundreds with an equivalent value of £1,867. 💥

With HUGE love, thanks (and banana pride) for all of you ...

What. A. Bunch. 💛

The POWER Advent Calendar of DREAMS. The gift of comfort, dignity and wellbeing for the incredible women supported by My Sisters' House CIO

Next step in the POWER X MSH Advent-ure?

17.05.2026, we step into our POWER with the Bognor Prom 10k Road Race the bunch is growing, and the Bognor 10km is known to sell out, so don't wait. Sign up via the Bognor 10km website and search for team 'POWER is Bananas'. 📌

Cheering bunch? Love you to be part of it.

Walking/running bunch? Eyes peeled for how we're going to lace up, together. No one gets left behind. 👀

Shout out and love to POWER Advent Calendar rockstar collection points Denise Kelly Nutrition, Fab Beauty, Blooms Collective and Goat Coffee Co.

07/01/2026

That sign from the universe: 2026 gonna be 🔥

Unfiltered magic - sunset before the first Full Moon of 2026, 'on the Beach - thank you, nature.

Apart from the banana silhouette, what I also love about this photo is the bunch reflection in Queen B's 🍑

Thank you, for capturing the memories, Michelle .sauna 📸