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Illustration by maulana ahmad on Unsplash About a year ago, on literally the other side of the world, everything collided at once. A dozen yeses said months beforehand had all landed at the same time: Supporting 6 startups Monthly podcast recordings Volunteering for a student award Moving location every 3 weeks A weekly blog post challenge Private 1:1 clients A full time job, on site A 3 hour round trip daily commute, filled with calls and emails All whilst navigating a city

Photo by Aubrey Odom on Unsplash Those who enter my coaching space often share a common thread. They're brilliantly smart, passionate, considered, and detail-oriented. And they're stuck — frozen by their own inner dialogue whispering that they're making a mistake, that they need to try harder, and that, heartbreakingly, what they're doing simply isn't enough. Overthinking sucks. So they don't start. Or they keep going, one more time around. But the result stays the same. The

Photo by Andrey Larionov on Unsplash A friend of mine, dipping her toe into people management for the first time, was having a hard time. She’d been working with a virtual assistant, and despite good intentions on both sides, it just hadn’t worked. Tempers had flared. Assumptions were made. It was exasperation at dawn! When she talked it through, she wasn’t asking how to be a better manager in a textbook sense. She was asking something much simpler: " What do I need to look