Author: VICTORIA

Back in episode 59, I shared my plan for surviving the summer holidays as a self-employed parent, what I would keep going, what I would let go of and where I hoped to find some balance. Now, in the final week of the holidays, it felt like the right time to check in and be… Read more

Helen Bullen is a business mentor, speaker and award-winning author who works with solo business owners who want to make a living doing what they love. In 2020 she retired from clinical practice as an osteopath, having single-handedly built Fine Fettle Multi-Healthcare, a large, multi-award-winning clinic with over 20 practitioners and a full reception and… Read more

Last week I sat down with human design practitioner Emily Armitage for an episode about business alignment and identity. I was so fascinated by what came up during our conversation that I booked my own alignment session with her, and I left ninety minutes later with an unnervingly accurate breakdown of my personality, my patterns… Read more

Emily Armitage is a business and identity strategist for financially ambitious women building service-based businesses. Having become a fully fledged business owner and a mum at exactly the same time, she understands firsthand the particular chaos of building a business and a family simultaneously. Emily uses human design to co-create legacy businesses that work with… Read more

This week’s solo episode started with a last minute photography enquiry that came through a Google search the day before we hit the road in the van. It led to a beautiful golden hour maternity shoot that evening and a very welcome reminder that people still use Google to find local service-based businesses. It also… Read more

Leila Green was raised in a family of entrepreneurs, started her first business at 26 and grew it to six figures without any outside investment. She sacrificed a great deal to keep it going through the pandemic. Then came the curveball that changed everything. After two heartbreaking unexplained miscarriages, she became pregnant with triplets. Fast… Read more

This week’s solo episode is a little different. It is the story of a project that pretty much took over my life in 2018 and 2019. A project I have been thinking about sharing ever since a recent visit stirred up a lot of feelings and prompted a flurry of DMs from people who had… Read more

Ella McKay is a self-proclaimed food obsessive, a marketing professional turned entrepreneur and the co-founder of FATSO, a premium dark chocolate brand on a mission to prove that dark chocolate can be every bit as fun, flavourful and full of personality as its milkier counterpart. The idea was born in lockdown from a conversation about… Read more

This week’s solo episode is coming to you from a converted VW Crafter in Tours, France – heavily loaded with me, my partner and two small children with all their associated paraphernalia, snacks galore, an expanding laundry bag and a portable penguin potty! Van life has this idyllic reputation, hasn’t it? The footloose digital nomad,… Read more

Emma Bardwell is the founder and managing director of BardWood Support Services, a fast-growing recruitment business specialising in security and facilities management. Driven by a desire to create flexibility for her young family, she left her career in recruitment in 2015 and began building her business from the ground up, with two daughters aged two… Read more