I'm excited about a business idea that's taking shape! Inspired in part by George Pransky and Don Donovan's *State of Mind Is the Bottom Line* book relased this fall/autumn, I'm looking to bring the Three Principles into corporate America through **90-minute workplace workshops!** Here's the vision: - **The workshop:** *A Clearer Mind at Work* - **The focus:** How state of mind affects stress, communication, relationships, and decision-making. - **The difference:** No techniques or thought-management strategies. Just helping people SEE how the mind works! - **The market:** Businesses, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, and leadership teams. - **The business model:** Approximately $1,000 per workshop, with ?? opportunities for ongoing organizational work [I would want to partner if that comes around!!] - **The marketing:** Personal outreach to HR directors, business owners, and professional contacts. **The big idea?** Make the Three Principles accessible to organizations through something concrete they can actually purchase, while creating opportunities for people to have their own insights. I'd love your thoughts, connections, and ideas as I put some legs on this!

New in the Genius Series: my conversation with Debs Gordon-Williams. Debs began her career as a psychiatric nurse, then lived abroad, worked with charities and took early retirement. Now she's building a natural wellness business and a six-week online course for women who are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and a little lost. What struck me is how kind her approach is. No 10-day plan that leaves you feeling guilty when you can't keep it up. Instead, Debs shares micro habits: tiny changes you attach to something you already do, like a glass of water before each meal. And if the first thing you try doesn't work, you don't give up. You give yourself permission to attach it to something else. My takeaway for you: you don't need to be an expert to help people, and you don't need to change everything at once. As Debs put it, it's about being someone who's living through it, doing small things that make a difference, and wanting to share them Watch her short interview and let me know your thoughts :)

2026 will go down in my personal history as a real banger. I am using banger as good/tough/notable/life changing. I won't bore you with details, but I am TODAY feeling squeezed and anxious and wanting a way out! I reached out to Jacqueline and I am putting my stake in the ground for Skool/Activator and will be getting the premium when some dust settles about me/my husband. (Basically, selling a house and moving so.... ACK!) I have a super cool idea and chatgpt is helping me craft it. I will bring it here for comment/review/assist from all those who want to CHARGE THEIR WORTH!

It’s been a very mixed few days for me. Yes there’s been lots of love and insight and incredible connections. I mean super incredible. As I sit enjoying my coffee, playing hooky (as Elsie Spittle used to say) in the warmth of the Spanish sun , feelings of gratitude light up every cell in my body. And I as I percolate on what I’m hearing, I realise that the gratitude is not just for the feelings I like. But also for the feelings I haven’t been too keen on. The client that cancelled with ill will - that email hurt. Stung for a while. Until I found my humility. And then the ‘honest’ conversation a peer felt they needed to have with me. Old feelings of lack, of being scared, of wanting to defend. Arose and caught in my throat. Again humility restored me. Owning my part without falling on my sword ⚔️ It doesn’t mean those feelings left my body - the cells felt the thinking they came from. But something that’s been present within in me is that ‘this is growth’ this is the edge of what I know, this is the space from which creativity arises. From where I’m called to step into my power in a stronger, more grounded way. This is what it means to be in the unknown. It’s not meant to be comfortable. And then the story of the spider. 🕷️ Barb Patterson, an incredible speaker, entrepreneur and human being, told of the spider who is not born with all the silk thread inside of them. They have to mobilise and move. They first have to mobilise the elements within them to create the chemical changes. They then have to move and physically pull the liquid out of their body to align the molecules into a solid thread. I saw that the painful feelings, the doubt, the insecurity, the imposter syndrome - they are the chemicals that we can use to poison ourselves and shut down. Or we can use to mobilise our unique abilities to turn pain into silk. Once mobilised we then have to move to allow the thread to come out of us. It doesn’t do anything kept inside. In my story that could mean an appropriate response to an email that serves the client and me. An apology to someone who has felt hurt by my behaviour and an opportunity for a reset. A surrender to the feelings without attachment. Not necessarily easy things to do. But from within humility there is no vulnerability.

I want to share something great with you. My local drama group put out an urgent message last night because one of the key actors in their play was unwell and they needed someone to take the stage and read the character in with only two hours notice. I knew I could do it and stepped up to the role, putting on the costume and doing a very good characterisation. This challenge has been very helpful when comparing the knowing, confident feeling I had about taking it on with that of my debilitating anxiety and self consciousness I experience at other times. For the first time I'm aware that I can be comfortable in the unknown. That's huge for me! And I so enjoyed stepping up and doing the part. There was very little difficulty in it for me. What came to me was something I have heard many times before, but I heard it deeper, which is, I am not my thinking. Pretty cool aye!