The Silent Burnout That Looks Like High Performance
You’re Still Delivering. Still Crushing. But You’re Empty. It’s easy to spot burnout when someone crashes. But founder burnout doesn’t always look like collapse. In fact, sometimes it looks like your most productive season yet. You hit your goals. You’re in the office late. You’re running at full speed. But there’s nothing behind your eyes […]
Why Growth Magnifies Your Inner Chaos
The Numbers Go Up. So Does the Pressure. When founders talk about growth, it’s almost always external. Revenue. Users. Team size. Investment. It’s intoxicating, isn’t it? The kind of progress that gets celebrated in press releases and pitch decks. But behind the scenes, another kind of growth , or lack of it , quietly determines […]
The Burnout That Doesn’t Show on Your Calendar
You’re Showing Up — But Are You Really Present? When you’re a tech founder, everything runs on urgency. Every hour is booked, every message feels like a small fire, and every meeting demands the best version of you. From the outside, you’re functioning — brilliantly, even. But inside? It’s different. You might be forgetting things […]
I Lost My Mum
In October 2021, my Mum passed away and only now am I beginning process it all. She had a rare brain disease called Behavioural Variant Frontal Temporal Dementia, which is an early-onset dementia. I’m normally sharing something to do with children, young people managing an adolescent mind, and everything that happens at that kind of […]
Fashion. In My Humble Opinion
When I look at fashion in magazines, I think “if I went to work looking like that, people would have me sectioned.”
I Punched a Wasp 🐝
And since the last time we corresponded… You thought I’d been relaxing didn’t you? 🤭 I’m going to slap you with an imaginary wet salmon around your head for thinking that🐟. A big heavy one from Sainsbury Taste the Difference range, just for thinking it. Clare had another round of seizures and emergency medication. No hospital […]
⏮What Yesterday Looked Like.⏮
Yesterday I took my dementing Mum to the Royal Free for her final appointment. It was a bit emotional really, because we said goodbye to a neurologist who got his head around her bizarre dementedness and agreed on a diagnosis I had flagged up almost 2 years earlier. He’d been super helpful and written a […]
When a Family Member Goes into Care
This is a bit of a random post for my blog but I felt it was too important to keep to myself…. ➡️ Have you got a dementing one or did you have one until the past?⬅️ If so, I might have discovered something important. (Apologies if you already know about it – I literally […]
🍋Tales of Further Lemons
On Monday evening we had to take the dementing ones cat to the vet. The cat had been poorly a while but the dementing one was not really acknowledging it. On the way there, my sister’s social worked called me. She told me that there has been a whistle blowing incident at my sisters care […]
What Professionalism Means to Me in the World of NLP
I know that NLP is a flaky business. I think everyone who is a professional in the industry knows that too. But I come from a litigious background and I’m used to completing paperwork. Lots of it. I didn’t think it was going to be that way in the beginning – when I became a […]