Who am I?
I'm in my late 50s. I'm a Money Mentor, and Success & Leadership strategist. I also own a construction industry recruitment consultancy, which is a longer story for another day. Everything I do comes back to one thing. Serving and enriching the people around me. All roads led here.
From a young age, I was self conscious. I didn't know who I was supposed to be.
When I was 8, family members called me fat. It changed something in me. I went to Barbados with my mum and brother that year, a normal, bubbly little girl. I came back feeling like I wasn't good enough.
I started comparing myself to everyone. I learned to diet. I got skilled at hiding, keeping the focus on other people so nobody would look too closely at me. Somewhere in there, I decided I was uninteresting too.
I've also been blessed. A wonderful family, an inspiring husband, and two kids I'm endlessly proud of, Niall and Becca.
I knew from my teens I wanted to work for myself. I built that life. I still wasn't comfortable in it.
I worked harder than I needed to. I gave away too much of my time and my money, like I was trying to prove I was worth having around. I wanted people to notice me without having to ask for it, especially the people closest to me.
It didn't work the way I hoped. The more I gave, the less invested people became. My confidence kept slipping.
For years I told myself I wasn't good enough. Everyone else seemed younger, slimmer, more together. I was terrified to charge properly for my work.
As I got older, it got worse. In my late 40s and early 50s, I was convinced people were judging me for my size. As a photographer, I believed clients would rather book someone younger and slimmer than me. I can't believe I'm actually saying that out loud.
Everyone around me thought I was this confident, capable woman who had it all together. Inside, I was telling myself I wasn't good enough, on repeat.
I’ve been through my own transformation…
I started doing the inner work. I invested in coaching, properly, for the first time. I began unpicking why I felt the way I did instead of just pushing through it.
That's when I realised I was the one standing in my own way, and I was the only one who could change that.
Clarity, confidence, and a sense of fulfilment opened everything up. I started showing up in my life and my business without forcing it. I felt good, properly good, for the first time in years.
It didn't happen overnight. It took years, not a paragraph.
All roads have led me to here: my journey and my love of working with people. I know that this is my calling: to help other incredible people, driven and seemingly happy and confident, who are filled with self doubt and quietly lack confidence, who feel unfulfilled and want more.
We are designed for great things and the next step is to take ownership and go with it. Nobody’s permission is needed other than our own.
I love my life and I want to help you feel the same too.
