Creating Sparks

It’s time to call it what it is:
💬 Gossip is not harmless
⛓️‍💥 It erodes trust, damages culture and isolates people

🔥 As someone who has repeatedly called out mean girl (and guy!) culture in workplaces I’m now passionate about delivering realisation, accountability and resolution to teams. Let’s do better together!

📥 DM me to talk about:
✅ staff training
✅ workshops on gossip & authenticity
✅ confidence coaching

🖤 Let’s make every interaction unapologetically real, pink is optional 💕

✨🧡🎃 Welcome October 🎃🧡✨

This is my season… a time for renewal, shedding what we’ve outgrown and taking our guide from nature!

There are two types of solopreneurs on holiday:

The ones who genuinely switch off completely.

The liars. 😂

I’m aiming for somewhere between “I’m completely switching off” and “let me just check one thing…”

Because actually, I enjoy my business, I love my clients and I’m obsessed with what I’m building. ✨

That said, I also know that taking a break matters. So yes, I might check in but the important bit is remembering that checking in doesn’t have to become checking out of your holiday.

Now… where’s that cocktail? 🍹 Out of office-ish!!

Ahead of my return to college tomorrow for Doctoral Summer School (as a non PhD researcher!!) I thought this post was timely 😆🙄

All the highlighters, colour, dual screens and of course a pumpkin mug for all the coffee I’ll be drinking 😆

So, the algorithm is handing out fortunes now 🥠…

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This is your Tuesday morning reminder to ditch the doubt ✨

Leaving Cert Results Day always makes me reflect - at the time it feels so big and so final but it really isn’t. So, what better time to share just some of the times I started over since I got my results.

🇯🇵 First up - I changed degree courses (also called “dropping out” of my initial choice). I did this because I was afraid of not getting my 3rd year in Japan funded through scholarship but I told everyone it was because Japanese was too hard and distracted me from my priority - Business Studies. After leaving, the following September the Japanese government sponsored me on a fully funded study tour award trip with 71 other students globally! 🫣

✅ Senior Marketing role checked off the list, I got restless, it wasn’t hard enough 🫣 so I moved into a bigger company selling Leisure Management Software across the island of Ireland and in the UK. I travelled so much and learned bucket loads about my industry and loved it. The recession hit and I was made redundant 😖 Devastation.

Then I stepped back into club management but redundancy came around again, this one hit hard. I felt like a failure. I decided I’d ensure job security forever …. I set up my own business. Weeks working on my brand with a clever logo that literally no one understood or could pronounce 😫 bad start!

I was so passionate I had to keep it going so I failed fast and learned and adapted. Sounds easy now but at the time each set back took another bit of confidence from me. Resilience kept me going.

Another iteration and more pressure! I loved this phase of business but needed investment to grow it and I thought I didn’t have the confidence to pitch it (except looking back I did one time in a packed RDS 🤣).

I got scared, it was harder than I thought so I retreated to the safety of regular income and work I knew I could do. I reasoned with myself it would free up time for me to go back to college…in reality I had eggs in lots of baskets … safety nets because I was so afraid to “fail” at anything.

I dragged myself through my teaching qualification juggling my sales role, my business, 2 weekends a month in college and 2 days a week on teaching practice. I wasn’t on top of anything because