Definitely not something I want. Definitely something I’m working on. Definitely not something I want to label myself as… but I know I just fricken did… So last night I went to a local live music event with this new EPIC man in my life who’s from here in Bali. Not a big concert or out like that. Just local musicians, friends, beers, good vibes… and I was like… right… bite the bullet, Mimi. Go and do something uncomfortable for once instead of making excuses, u got this eeekkk I could already feel the anxiety brewing before we even left. Thirty minute scooter ride… and I’m already overthinking shit a lot Then we walked in. It was this bigish warehouse space. All the lights were on. Maybe 25 or 30 people sat around tables drinking arak and beer. 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗺𝗲𝗻…. Ekka knew people straight away. A few came over to say hello. He introduced me. Obvs there’s a language barrier because I don’t speak Indonesian (gotta sort this out..note to self) and then my brain just went… 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧. I’m the only girl here. 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧. I'm the only bule (that's what they call us foreigners here) here. And then… oh my dayz… I spiralled. Like PROPER fcking spiralled. The only way I can describe it is... imagine walking into an arena where U don't know a SINGLE person. Everything's unfamiliar. Everyone already knows everyone else. And it feels like there's this massive af spotlight following U around the room. Like everyone can see u. Everyone's looking at u. Everyone's judging u... even though they're probably not pfffttt That's exactly what it felt like. 𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗦𝗢 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻. 𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻. What do I do with my hands? Do I put them on my hips? Behind my back? Do I smile? Am I smiling too much? Am I standing weird? Why am I just STANDING here? Then it got even more ridiculous because my brain clearly thought, "Let's throw absolutely EVERYTHING at her while we're at it." Why didn't I wear my Vans? Why have I got sandals on? Why am I wearing shorts? I should've worn trousers. Do I look like an idiot? People are gonna think... who the fuck is SHE? Why is she here?

OOOFFF... I've been proper down a rabbit hole this morning and honestly I wasn't even planning on writing about this… Me little brain just started doing brain things over coffee and I ended up having this really juicy convo starter inside 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗠 about why people drop off communities, courses, challenges... all that kinda stuff... and then I realised... hang on a minute... this isn't actually about communities at all. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. And honestly I think understanding THIS will make U better at business than another bloody marketing strategy ever will… Because have U ever noticed how ridiculously excited we get at the beginning of stuff? New business. New planner. New gym. New community. New course. New mentor. New notebook etc etc because apparently buying another notebook is gonna solve all our problems We get SO buzzing. “Yup defo this is it." "This is gonna change everything." "I'm ALL IN." Then... well... life does lifen doesn't it Couple of days later the dog's been sick vom, or someone's emailed, U've got washing to do eewww, your kid needs picking up, U're just tired af, U've forgotten where U even put the bloody notebook and suddenly the thing U were SO excited about is sat there gathering dust. And here's the thing... years ago I'd have called people flaky. I probably would've said people don't commit. Buuuuttt? I don't actually believe that's what's happening anymore. I reckon this is where we accidentally stitch ourselves up. We watch something... read something... listen to something... and we think "OOOFFF... that's bloody brilliant stuff… I'll do that tomorrow." Then tomorrow becomes Wednesday. Wednesday becomes next week. Next week becomes..."Ahhh fck it... I'm behind now." Tell me U've never done that because I know I bloody have heaps. Loads of times. And the mad bit is... nothing actually changed. The training didn't get harder. The community didn't change.

Lucy and I met early in 2025. Lucy came on a vacation to Bali and, through an epic, beautiful mutual friend, we made that connection and we met. And what it was... was INSTANT. Just right. Laughed. Easy. Raw. Real. ZERO pretentiousness. It felt like we could just be ourselves. Just totally, in a flash, instant, and 4 me thats special af On that very same first catch-up over a Bintang, the local Bali beer, we talked about creating a retreat. It's probably one of the fastest decisions I've ever made that just felt so fricken RIGHT, because we were so aligned in our realness, our rawness and our values. Bringing beautiful people together without the performance, without the judgement, just being totally ourselves. We also acknowledged the highs and the lows that we all go through in life, because we all face them. We all have past traumas. We all have insecurities. We all have limiting beliefs. We all have things that we're working through, and that's what makes us damn HUMAN. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗙 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻…𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗿…𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁… Just a few months later, early in 2026, we held our very first retreat and we had a bunch of amazing women come and join us. Some had known each other before, some had never met. And honestly, it made me feel really good because it matched EVERYTHING this was about. Again, just being real. Being open. Facing the moments instead of pretending everything's perfect. We laughed. We cried. We broke through things that had been holding us back. We had some incredible transformations. Some easy. Some definitely not easy. But that's the way life is, hey? IT EBBS. IT FLOWS. We did yoga. We chuckled. We stretched ourselves. We did breathwork that broke down tears and let out trauma. We experienced sound healing that was so deep and nourishing that you came away feeling like you were floating, with an inner peace you maybe hadn't felt for a long time. We had nights out. We experienced new things. Melukat water blessings. Meeting the cutest monkeys in the Bali Monkey Forest. Seven days of PURE CONNECTION. Connection to other people but, most importantly, connection back to YOURSELF.

I updated this ABOUT ME thing... well coz I'm not the same woman who wrote the first version. and pretending otherwise would be complete bollocks. so here's the real one today... It's Me. Mimi. Woop if ur epic I've been doing the same work my entire life. same work. different rooms. dance studio… getting people out of their heads and into their bodies… stop overthinking… FEEL it… own the space… be seen… woop… yoga… helping people slow the noise down… reconnect to themselves… trust what was already sitting inside them… business… community… same. bloody. thing. if I ever 😂 because here's what I know after nearly half a century of doing this… people don't need more information. they don't need another strategy. they don't need another PDF or another course or another "5 steps to grow ur audience" post that could've been written by literally anyone about literally anything. pfffttt. fck that. what they need is to find their people. say their thing. do it their own fricken way. and build something real around it. 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀. not the fake kind. not the "how many peas can u see" engagement bait nonsense that makes me want to actually cry a little inside. 😂 but REAL community. where people connect. have real conversations. support each other. challenge each other. buy from each other. show up for each other even on the hard days. 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿. 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿. and I've been building that since before it was cool. dance floors. yoga studios. Facebook groups. Skool communities. in person retreats in Bali. doesn't matter where. I have always been the one going… right. let's get everyone in a room. let's make something happen. let's actually DO this together. 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿. 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀. 🔥 now. the transparency bit. because I'm not one to fake ass anything and there are too many people in this industry who do and honestly it makes me want to… well… let's just say it doesn't sit well with me. 😂

I'm doing something a little bit new and I want to be totally transparent about it because that's just… me. obvs. IYKYK😂 so here's the deal. I've spent nearly 30 years bringing people together. dance floors. yoga studios. Facebook groups. Skool communities. in person. online. doesn't matter where — I have always been the one making spaces come alive. making people feel seen. starting the conversations. building the connections that turn into something real. and recently I had a proper lightbulb moment. ooofff. 💡(more deets here) I realised that what lights me up the most isn't teaching people HOW to do this anymore. it's actually DOING it. being IN the community. every single day. making it happen in real time… 𝘀𝗼 𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀. going INTO people's spaces and making them come alive. welcoming members. starting real conversations. Conversions. building the kind of culture that makes people actually WANT to show up. I've already got one inquiry and I'm potentially taking on my first client tomorrow which is exciting af. woop… BUT. I want more of this. and I want to find the right people. and I want to do it in a way that feels completely aligned with who I am, which means no sleazy cold DM nonsense. pfffttt. not a chance. 😂 so far I've put it out on LinkedIn and Facebook and that's kinda it. I'm pretty new to LinkedIn if I'm being honest so I'm still finding my feet over there… 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 if u were me… where would u be showing up to find community owners who need this? would u be going into specific communities and sharing what u do? would u be reaching out to people directly? and if so how would u do it without it feeling gross? 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁? OR… are u someone with a Skool community that needs this kind of support? OR… are u someone with a Skool community that needs this kind of support? holla at me. 👀