Hothouse - launches live on Facebook next week (correction)

Hello ☀️ Usually the summer is quiet, but five designers booked appointments for advice last week. Every one arrived with a version of the same question: what should I do next? Between them they left with five different answers: no two could have shared a meeting. ? One needed to be visible before there was yet a business to be visible for.  ? One had a full order book, projects delivered beaut...

Hello 👀 To you, and to a new month. It's the middle of the third quarter, and today we are turning our attention to the woefully neglected. Here are two items for starters.  The first is the chunk of your life that you've deleted from your cv. Tt's the subject of this week's blog, and a choice most career changers will recognise the moment they see it named. The second is the business you own a...

Hello 🏋️‍♀️ This week's theme was inspired by a question someone asked me a few weeks ago: is a first meeting with a prospective client the moment to bring out the Very Good Bag? My answer was yes. It was also, I now think, only half right, and the missing half turns out to be the interesting part. The thread running through this issue is that the things that read as effortless confidence, in a...