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27/05/2026

I vividly remember the day I launched my first full time business. I could NOT WAIT to get started...

Excited. Liberated. Full of possibility.

I looked like this… 🥳

🤣

I also vividly remember six months later:

Anxious. Bewildered. Overwhelmed. Inner critic playing on a loop.
I looked more like this… 😶‍🌫️

🤣

It was rough.

But I couldn't give up. I had taken redundancy when my kids were 3 years old and 3 months old respectively - I couldn't face dropping the two of them off at nursery and hitting the 9-5 (or, more accurately, 8-7).

So I locked in. I figured it out and that first full time business boomed.

The secret?

✨Figuring out what you need to tell people so that they understand (and like!) your offer.

✨Figuring out where you need to be so people can see what you offer.

✨Showing people how you are different and why they can trust you.

After that, it all came together - and the rest was easy.

Business doesn't have to be hard.

What's hard sometimes is remembering to see your business through your client's eyes and telling them why you are the obvious choice.

What makes YOU the obvious choice? 👀

25/05/2026

1 week to go and only 2 spaces left…👀🤩

25/05/2026

There's more to this than meets the eye... 👀

Katy’s Corner in Cramlington was created in memory of a young woman named Katy, who passed away from cancer.

Her family wanted to honour her by creating something that reflected who she was - warm, community‑minded, and passionate about helping people.

So instead of a plaque or bench, they created a legacy.

A space for connection, support, and community impact.

You can feel the intention in the room. It’s calm. It’s welcoming. It’s full of heart.

A place where people can come together, be themselves and feel at home as part of a community.

It’s hosted by Kirbys Solicitors and Legacare, who were closely connected to Katy and wanted to create something positive and lasting in her name.

That’s why (in return for a charitable donation) the space is offered for things like:

✨small business workshops

✨community events

✨networking

✨wellbeing sessions

✨local support groups

It’s not just a room. It’s a story created to host and hear more stories far into the future.

That’s also why it's the perfect venue for the workshop with Purdie and I on 1st June.

Not many seats left btw - if you like the idea of an event that's comfortable & casual but might just also change the way you feel about your business, hit me up!

22/05/2026

For anyone who needs to hear this today...

✨You deserve to be paid well for the value you bring

✨You deserve clients who 'get' you

✨You deserve a business that lights you up

And...

🎯Inviting dream clients into your world is easy when you know who THEY are

🎯Showing up online to create your world is easy when you know who YOU are, (and believe in your value)

If you're ready to build a business you believe in, and are free on 1st June - Amy Purdie and I are holding a workshop to show you how.

📍Katy's Corner, Manor Walks, Cramlington (next to Lloyds Bank)
⏰10am - 2.45pm
💰£35

😁WE ARE ALMOST FULLY BOOKED! 😁

We're going all in, and we'd love to have you on board.

Eventbrite: Nail Your Brand, Grow Your Business
Drop me a line for the link. 🎟️

20/05/2026

You know you have a true business family when you have the (mad) idea to run and workshop (Katy's Corner, 1st June if you're wondering 😁) - and they book 4 of the 10 seats available!

Then you bring Craig Foggo along to meet them and they bend over backwards to make him welcome and support his Golf Day fundraiser (25th June at Westerhope Golf Club if you're wondering). ⛳😁

No wonder I get up & out early every Wednesday morning to have breakfast with these guys Ford Henderson More Clients Marketing Savage & Co Reynolds HR & OD Ltd Social+ Penny Print Joe Laws Photography Four Rivers Financial Planning Vertax Accountants Metro Mortgages Reflexions Counselling & Psychotherapy Aspray Claims Evolve Technology Dave Armstrong Oasis Sales, Lettings and Investments, Blessing Hale, Kate Watson and Paul Lowes

Are you a business without a family? Drop me a line & you can come visit mine... 😊

18/05/2026

If there's one thing I love, a lot, it's businesses who are looking to bring people together.

Especially in real life (or IRL as my kids like to call it).

The tech is taking over the world, but we still need, and have, each other - if we can stay comfortable with being around other, Actual, Humans!

So, show up to one (or more) of these events, have a chat, buy a couple of bits, or just soak up the experience of being out at an event, in the world.

It could be fun! ✨

Right we have a mad idea…..

We have a great few events coming up with our Blyth marketplace and Darkside events in the next few weeks..

Wouldn’t it be amazing to have 1000 followers by then….😱

So you know the drill
- Like this post
- Share our page
-Invite your friends to follow

You must comment on this post when you are done and if we hit by Friday (22nd) - we will select a few people at random to get a voucher off us as a thank you! Spend that with one of our lovely traders whichever event you like - get your candles, cakes, a vase, jewellery, tropic, sausages, cushions, perfume, ice cream - I can’t name them all! But the choice is yours!

What are you waiting for… go go go!

18/05/2026

I was cleaning this weekend...

Like a proper clean where you get the sofa cushions off and vacuum everything.

And guess what?! A £20 note stuffed down the side (who knows how long it had been there).🥳

Does anything beat the experience of finding unexpected money?!

The only thing that comes close for me is when someone contacts me 'out of nowhere' to see if I can work with them.

Like that £20, they often appear out of the blue, but in reality the constant action of:

• posting
• writing
• showing up
• networking

is working away in the background. 👀

It can feel like staying visible is a part‑time job with no immediate reward. But every now and again, something lands and you’re reminded exactly why you keep going.

If you’re in that “is this even working?” phase, think of it like a jar of marbles - every action is another marble. Eventually the jar fills, and someone gets in touch “out of the blue”.

Keep going!

15/05/2026

14/05/2026

Ok - I want you to be really honest with me here...

Are you procrastinating right now, because you're supposed to be posting something and you can't think what to write?!?

Does posting content feel like a treadmill that you daren't step off? 😭

And, you're also telling yourself it probably doesn't matter anyway - you never get work from it, right?

If these are the thoughts chasing each other around your head like wayward pre-schoolers, I have a suggestion for you:

Book yourself onto the workshop in Cramlington on 1st June - and let Amy Purdie and I help you uncover so much gold in your business (the kind that WILL bring work in btw 🤩) that you'll be itching to get started!

Deal?

Check out the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nail-your-brand-grow-your-business-registration-1988002693572

Are you on a treadmill of posting content which seems to disappear into a void, or feel you have too many competitors to be successful?

07/05/2026

Ok - so you are stranded on a desert island...

And you have a choice:

You can have half a dozen beautiful people on there. Like Love Island gorgeous. Physical perfection.

OR

You can have half a dozen good hearted people, flawed but pure of intention and wanting to contribute to the overall good of the little community of 7 that you will be.

Which would you choose?

Assuming you are going for survival over eye candy...(!)
..why would anybody, then, post content that looks beautiful but has no depth, says nothing of their individuality, purpose and good heartedness?

The humanness that would make them a candidate for being picked to be part of a very small, very select community??

Because when your clients are looking to invite someone new into their world, they're not looking for polished.

They're looking for, 'will they have my back', 'will they keep their promises', 'will they contribute to my world'.

How are you going to convince them to let you in if they can't see your heart? 💖😇