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26 feels like a weird age.Old enough to feel like I should have everything sorted.Young enough to know I absolutely don’...
06/09/2026

26 feels like a weird age.

Old enough to feel like I should have everything sorted.

Young enough to know I absolutely don’t.

I’m building a business I have huge ambitions for, while still regularly wondering if I’m making the right decisions.

I’ve bought a house, but there’s still so much I want to do with it.

I want to earn more, travel more, build more, experience more.

Then sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m 26.

There’s so much pressure at this age to feel like you should be further ahead.

Someone’s getting married.

Someone’s buying their second house.

Someone’s travelling the world.

Someone’s business seems to be flying.

Someone else has packed it all in and started again.

The funny thing is, I don’t actually think any of us know what we’re doing as much as it looks like we do.

I’m ambitious. I’ll probably always be looking at the next thing I want to achieve.

But I’m trying to get better at not letting that make me rush through the life I wanted in the first place.

Maybe having it “figured out” isn’t really the goal.

Curious if anyone else in their 20s feels like they’re simultaneously doing really well and have absolutely no idea what they’re doing?

05/09/2026

You’re building way too many excuses to stop you building a personal brand.

The opportunities it can bring your business in the next 5 years, can far outweigh the worry of what you’ll do when you want to retire in 20 years.

I’m not precious about my ideas.If something I’ve suggested isn’t working, I’m not going to keep pushing it for another ...
04/09/2026

I’m not precious about my ideas.

If something I’ve suggested isn’t working, I’m not going to keep pushing it for another three months just to avoid admitting it.

I’d much rather catch it, understand why and change direction.

That could mean killing a content idea I loved, changing an offer, dropping a whole content pillar or admitting we’re attracting completely the wrong audience.

That’s marketing.

You try things. You look at what people actually do. You learn. You adjust.

What I won’t do is find the nicest looking number on a report and use it to convince you everything’s going brilliantly.

If you’re trusting me with your business and your money, you deserve more than that.

I care far more about getting it right than being right.

03/09/2026

When you’re starting out and you lose clients, it can feel like the end of the world.

But it’s not. It happens.

Here’s what I would do…

The biggest thing?
Don’t panic.

Back yourself at what you do, and the right clients will come.

I’ve grown up around hospitality. I know how hard it is to make a restaurant work even when you’re doing everything righ...
02/09/2026

I’ve grown up around hospitality. I know how hard it is to make a restaurant work even when you’re doing everything right.

Right now, it’s harder than ever.

Marketing won’t fix rising costs, VAT or people having less disposable income.

But it can help make sure that when someone does decide to eat out, your restaurant is one of the places they think of.

There are too many genuinely brilliant hospitality businesses relying on people simply knowing they’re there.

Being good at what you do is the starting point.

Making sure enough people know about it matters too.

01/09/2026

If 10,000 people visited your website last month and nobody bought, would your first thought really be:

“We need another 10,000 people”?

Probably not.

You’d want to know why the first 10,000 didn’t buy.

Yet I see businesses doing the equivalent on social media all the time.

Reach is down? We need more reach.

Enquiries are quiet? We need more followers.

Sales are slow? We need a viral Reel.

More attention feels like the obvious answer.

Sometimes it is.

But if people are already finding you, visiting your profile and not taking the next step, I’d want to know what’s stopping them before I worried about finding thousands more.

If I landed on your Instagram today, would I quickly understand why I should choose you?

Can I see that other people already have?

Are you actually giving me a reason to want what you’re selling, or are you just showing me that it exists?

If I’m interested, is the next step obvious?

Then what happens when I take it?

This is why I don’t think you can look at social media in isolation.

A Reel can do its job perfectly and get someone onto your profile.

Your profile can do its job and get them onto your website.

Your website can still lose them.

Your offer can lose them.

Your enquiry process can lose them.

Your follow-up can lose them.

So yes, I want more people seeing your business.

I just want to make sure we’re not pouring more people into a journey that’s already losing the ones we’ve got.

More reach isn’t always the answer.

Sometimes you need to fix what happens after it.

If I'm responsible for your social media, I need to understand more than your brand colours and how many times you want ...
31/08/2026

If I'm responsible for your social media, I need to understand more than your brand colours and how many times you want to post.

I want to know what's actually happening in the business.

What's selling. What isn't. Where the gaps are. What you want more of. What the next six months need to look like.

Not every post needs to generate a sale. Reach matters. Brand building matters. Staying visible matters.

It just shouldn't all exist in its own little world while the business is trying to solve completely different problems.

You shouldn't have to tell your social media manager every week what the business needs pushing.
They should already understand the business well enough to know.

You can usually tell which founders will build authority online.And it has very little to do with how often they post.Th...
10/07/2026

You can usually tell which founders will build authority online.

And it has very little to do with how often they post.

The founders who stay invisible tend to approach visibility as a task.

Something they know they should do.
Something they eventually get around to.
Something that sits at the bottom of the list behind clients, operations and everything else demanding their attention.

The founders who build authority see it differently.
They understand that every time they share a perspective, tell a story or communicate what they believe, they're shaping how the market remembers them.

One founder spends years becoming an expert and assumes people will eventually notice.
The other makes sure people understand why their expertise matters.

That's the difference.
Because the market isn't short of good businesses.
It's short of businesses it can remember.

I've met founders running incredible companies that barely anyone outside their network has heard of.
And I've seen founders with less experience, less expertise and less impressive businesses become the recognised name in their industry.

Not because they're better.
Because they're visible.

The frustrating part is that a lot of founders know this.
They know they should be showing up more.
They know their online presence doesn't reflect the level they're operating at.
They know they're leaving opportunities on the table.
But visibility still feels uncomfortable.

It feels self-promotional.
It feels awkward.
It feels easier to focus on the business itself.

Until they realise the business and the visibility are no longer separate things.

The founders building authority today aren't necessarily louder.
They're simply making it easier for the market to trust, remember and understand them.

And in a world where everyone is competing for attention, being memorable is becoming one of the most valuable business assets you can build.

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