“It’s a cliche to say a business is like your baby but that’s how it feels – you just want to make it all nice and send it out into the world with a warm coat and clean hair”. I speak to the brilliantly wise Kate Porter, of skincare brand Harbour Elements.
When you become a mother your world flips upside down. Your whole identity – which for so many of us is based on our careers – is removed from our core, and we’re expected to adapt to a new and foreign…
Once you’ve decide to join the freelance or self-employed working world it can be difficult to know where the heck to begin. For me, it was an approach of a small (£200) project with an ex-work colleague – influencer outreach…
The internet has given me many wonderful things. ASOS Premier, Facebook messenger, the DM’s sidebar of shame. But by far the best thing about the internet is the people I have met online. Typing that out still feels a bit…
When people ask me what my job is I never know what to say. “Erm, well, I have this website, and I write about stuff and people read it and yep thats it.” Reactions range from “ah, you blog for…
It took a long old time for me to find my groove when I first became a mother. At first I was a bit shellshocked; unlike work, there’s nobody there giving you appraisals, nobody telling you that you’ve done a…