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23/09/2026

What is wrong with me?

I hear myself saying this to myself quite a lot.

Why can’t I just do the thing? Why have I forgotten that again? Why am I overwhelmed by something that everyone else seems to manage? Why have I got 14 things half finished because I got distracted by something else? Why can I run a business, look after two kids and juggle a million things, but replying to one really simple email can feel fu***ng impossible?

What is wrong with me?

And actually, I really need to stop asking myself that question.

Because it’s a pretty s**tty way to talk to yourself, isn’t it? I wouldn’t look at one of my friends when they were struggling and ask them what the f**k was wrong with them. I’d probably point out the 900 other things they were carrying and tell them to give themselves a break.

Yet somehow when it’s me, my brain goes straight there.

I’m trying to catch myself doing it now and consciously change the question. Not what is wrong with me?, but what is making this hard for me right now?

Because those are two very different questions. One assumes I’m the problem. The other gives me half a chance of actually working out what the problem is.

It sounds so simple, but changing the way you’ve spoken to yourself for years takes some bloody work.

Anyone else having to consciously catch their inner Negative Nancy and change the way they talk to themselves?

22/09/2026

I’m so fu***ng cross with my kids.

Last weekend we rushed straight from school to Longleat for Icons of the Sky. We got there and the lucky little buggers were able to pretty much jump straight into a hot air balloon basket with the most amazing couple we’ve recently met.

They then flew up and over Longleat. The safari park, the incredible house and grounds, Centre Parcs, and then off towards Warminster.

Do you know how many photos my children took?

ONE.

One bloody photo. And here it is.

When I asked why they hadn’t taken any, they basically said they were too busy looking at everything.

And now I don’t know whether to be fu***ng cross with them or incredibly proud of them.

Would you be cross with them?

21/09/2026

FML, why does a few nights away in a Premier Inn feel like such a fu***ng treat?

16/09/2026

Reasons I can’t possibly have ADHD…

I did well at school. I wasn’t disruptive. I wasn’t the kid bouncing off the walls. I could sit quietly and get my work done.

And now? I run a business, look after 100+ websites, raise two kids, pay bills, meet deadlines and generally get s**t done. Surely that’s far too functioning for ADHD?

I’m organised too. I have calendars, lists, reminders, alarms, a CRM, project management software… basically an entire ecosystem designed to make sure I remember where I’m meant to be and what I’m meant to be doing.

I can focus for HOURS. Sometimes so much that I forget to eat. Unfortunately, that focus isn’t always on the thing I actually need to be doing.

I meet deadlines too. Occasionally after spending two weeks unable to start, followed by one slightly unhinged day of panic fuelled productivity. But hey, it got done.

And I’m not forgetful. I can remember exactly what someone said to me years ago, or how a website I built four years ago works. Why I’ve just walked into the kitchen? Absolutely no fu***ng clue.

For a long time, I thought all of that was proof I couldn’t have ADHD.

Turns out being capable and functioning doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy. Sometimes it just means you’ve built a s**tload of systems and got really good at making it look like it is.

I just never looked like the ADHD stereotype we were taught to look for. Anyway diagnosis has been one of the best things for me as it has validated all the systems and processes I have needed for my life to function.

15/09/2026

Most businesses have a website. It’s one of those things we think we need as soon as we start a business because somehow having a website makes the whole thing feel a bit more legit.

But when we’re starting out, money is normally tight. So that first website is often built on a shoestring budget. Maybe you built it yourself, got a mate to have a go, or paid for the cheapest option you could find because, at the time, that was exactly what you needed.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But there comes a point where your business has grown up and your website… hasn’t.

You’re more established, you know who you want to work with, your services have evolved and you’re charging more than you were when you started. Now you need a website that actually works harder for the business you’ve built, rather than simply proving you exist.

So, I’m looking for 5 businesses who are ready to move on from their shoestring budget website.

My pay monthly website package is currently £95 per month, but that price is about to increase to £145 per month.

Before it does, I’m opening up 5 spaces at the current £95 monthly price for businesses who are ready for something better but don’t necessarily want to find thousands upfront for a new website.

If you’ve outgrown the website you started with, drop me a message. Let’s see if you’re one of my five.

14/09/2026

Anyone available for a hug? Because f**k me, this new routine is hard and I’m only a week in!

The 6am alarm. The 45 minute school run that is actually more like an hour because of traffic. The kid who is absolutely loving his new school, but has already asked if he can have a day off.

And obviously normal life hasn’t stopped just because our routine has completely changed. There’s still the washing, dogs to sort, a house to vaguely keep on top of and apparently I’m also responsible for keeping everyone fed and alive.

I knew it was going to be a massive adjustment, and I knew the first few weeks would be a bit of a s**t show while we worked out our new normal. But knowing something is going to be hard and actually living the hard bit are two very different things.

We’ll get there. He’s happy, which is the most important thing, and I know eventually this will just become our normal.

But right now?

I would quite like a hug. And possibly a nap.

11/09/2026

Ahhh I’ve just got a bit ranty about this, but I’m going to say it anyway.

“Who is a dream referral for you?” is a question I ask quite a lot when I’m networking, and so often the answer starts with, “Anyone who…”

Nooooo. That’s your ideal client. I didn’t ask you who your ideal client was.

I want to know who your dream referral partner is. Who is already in the same rooms as your ideal clients? Who is working with them? Who could you build a genuine relationship with where you can refer work backwards and forwards because what you do naturally complements each other?

I’m a website designer. Of course I’ll talk about the type of businesses I love working with when I’m networking, because it helps people understand what I do. But I very rarely ask someone to introduce me directly to their mate Dave who owns a business and needs a new website.

Because then what? They introduce me and I immediately pitch slap Dave in the face with “HELLO, I HEAR YOUR WEBSITE IS SH*T.”

That’s not how I want to network.

My dream referrals are marketing strategists, brand designers and SEO specialists. They’re already working with the same sorts of businesses I want to work with, and quite often those businesses are going to need all of us at different points.

If you introduce me to a brilliant brand designer, there’s no pressure. I’m not trying to sell them a fu***ng website. We can have a coffee, find out what each other does, see if we actually like each other and build a relationship. Maybe they eventually introduce a client to me. Maybe I introduce three clients to them. Maybe nothing happens for six months and then suddenly there’s a perfect opportunity to work together.

That’s networking to me.

I don’t want to sell to the room. I want to build relationships with the people in the room, and with the brilliant people they know.

So next time someone asks you who your dream referral is, don’t automatically describe your ideal client.

Think about who you’d love to have in your network.

That introduction could be worth considerably more than one sale.

10/09/2026

I’ve only gone and won the lottery.

I can’t bloody believe it. After all these years, it’s finally happened.

Okay, not that lottery. I haven’t suddenly got £50 million sitting in my bank account, unfortunately. I mean the life lottery.

Most mornings, before I even get out of bed, I write in my gratitude diary. I’ve been doing it for a few years now and it sounds like such a small thing, but it has completely changed the way I look at my life. It’s soooo freaking healing, and I genuinely think it’s taught me to notice just how much good stuff there is around me.

And today, for whatever reason, I just feel like I’m absolutely bursting with gratitude.

This life I’m living. My boys. My family. The friends I have around me. My business. The opportunities that seem to appear. The people I meet. The random little moments where things somehow pan out exactly as they’re supposed to, even when I couldn’t see it at the time.

It’s not perfect, obviously. There’s still s**t stuff, stressful stuff and days where everything feels like a complete fu***ng car crash. But I wouldn’t swap this life for another one.

So yeah, I reckon I’ve won the life lottery.

And talking of winning the actual lottery, I’ve thought about this before. If someone handed me millions tomorrow, I genuinely think I’d still live pretty much this life and I’d still do what I do now.

I just probably wouldn’t exchange my skills for money anymore. I’d still build websites, help people with their businesses, go networking, connect people and get ridiculously invested in other people’s ideas because I bloody love all of it.

And I think being able to say “if money was completely irrelevant, I’d still choose this life” might be one of the luckiest places you can get to.

If you won the lottery today, would you still do your job tomorrow?

09/09/2026

Do you know what gets on my goat? “OMG, 100 people have joined my membership!”

Cool. But what I actually want to know is how many of those 100 people are still paying members a year later?

I nearly joined a membership recently. It was a lot of money, but the sales process was bloody smooth. The copy was good, the testimonials were great, they’d said all the right things and done all the right things to have me pretty much ready to hand over my card details.

But I’ve been burnt a few times before, so now I dig. I found a few people who’d given glowing testimonials and asked them what they thought of the membership now.

Haha. Turns out they weren’t members anymore, and they definitely didn’t feel quite the same way.

I genuinely think we’re living through a bit of a trust pandemic. Selling is fu***ng hard because people are more sceptical, they’re doing their homework and we’ve all seen enough clever marketing to know that what happens after you buy doesn’t always match what happened before.

Which is why I don’t understand the obsession with constantly getting more people into memberships, while seemingly putting far less energy into keeping the people already there.

Surely retention is the fu***ng goal?

If 100 people join and 70 leave, I’m considerably less impressed than if 30 join and 28 are still there a year later. Tell me that number. Tell me your average membership length. Tell me how many people renew. Tell me about the people who’ve been there for three years and still bloody love it.

Because those people aren’t just recurring revenue either. Look after them properly and they become mad raving fans. They’re the ones talking about your membership when you’re not in the room, recommending it to their friends and reassuring people like me when we go digging before we buy.

Getting people through the door is one thing. Making them want to stay is the bit I actually want to hear you shout about.

08/09/2026

I get an idea and then I can’t sleep. And before I’ve even got up in the morning I’ve normally mapped the whole bloody thing out with my friend AI.

I genuinely can’t help myself, my brain just doesn’t stop at night. I’ll think of something I want to do and suddenly I need to work out exactly how it could work, there and then.

Seeing 1am on the clock is pretty normal for me, which isn’t ideal when I then have to get up and actually function the next day as an adult.

Anyone else like this? And more importantly, what do you actually do to quieten your brain at night?

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