**I’m no longer writing on Medium. To receive my weekly weeknotes direct to my inbox, sign up to my SubStack.** When I launched Joy, over a year ago now, I thought I needed a ‘thing’. A tangible position in the market that people could connect with and say ‘I want…

While a lot of my writing is fairly introspective, I also like to write about practical things that will help others and often write about topics that others shy away from. One of the topics that ticks both of those boxes is money. I wrote about it before when I…

I’ve been thinking a lot about collaboration recently and how it differs when you’re working freelance to when you’re working with colleagues. I’ve been thinking about how the dynamic changes when two or more people work together that are not united under a company banner. There are logistical things you…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to scale Joy and about whether I even want to scale it. I’m in the privileged position at the moment to be able to turn down requests for work. Sometimes that’s ok if it’s not exactly the kind of work I want…

This won’t be new news to a lot of people, especially people of colour who’ve ever tried to get a job in our industry. Trigger warning: This piece discusses issues of racism that may be triggering. Yesterday I was halfway through writing this weeknote, toying with what to write about…

I’ve broken my writing habit recently and I’m annoyed with myself for that. When I first started my weekly writing habit around a year ago I was skeptical about my ability to keep it up, happily I found it came easily. My format and reason for writing evolved over time…

I’m in the middle of a two week period where everything has landed at the same time. I have three live projects at the moment, there’s a workshop for all of them, as well as a delayed presentation for a project that finished a few weeks ago. Last week I…

How often, as a woman who runs a business, have you been told not to do something because it will ruin your reputation? How often have you held back from saying something you believe for fear of burning a bridge? A few years ago I would have been the same…

I was on holiday last week so this week it feels necessary to write about something more personal. I always hesitate a bit when I do this, like the time I wrote about graduating from therapy, but then I remember my God and hero Brene Brown and her work on…