About Us
High Flying Design launched in 2025 as an online magazine for female founders. Within months, it was ranked #8 in FeedSpot's Top 50 Women's Magazines, a spot it has held in 2025 and 2026, and it's now read by founders across the UK and US.
We write about the business and the woman running it. So that means pricing, clients, grants and pensions. It also means burnout, confidence, boundaries, and what to do on the days it all feels like too much. You're one person, so we've never seen the point in separating the two.
More than half of the 2,225 UK female founders surveyed for the Rise Report defined success as stability and profitability. One in five said a life that doesn't cost them their health. Most wanted the money and the life. We take both seriously, because they do.
You're welcome here whether you started six months ago or twenty-seven years ago. Dina has run the same salon in north Essex since 1999. Hannah went from twenty-five bars of soap to two and a half thousand. Both of their stories are in these pages, and neither of them is more of a founder than the other.
Everything here is written by founders. Women who've built companies and sold them. Women who now fund other women. Women who've run the same shop for decades, and women still deep in the messy first year. All of them remember exactly what it felt like to be where you are.
What readers say about High Flying Design:“It’s the confidence magazine”
“They publish thoughtful, interesting pieces that are in line with the topics I'm interested in as an entrepreneur”
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Meet our editor, Shannon Kate Murray
High Flying Design was founded by Shannon Kate Murray from her home office along Essex’s sunshine coast.
Shannon studied Fashion Journalism at the University for the Creative Arts, graduating with a first, then spent most of her twenties working in marketing, PR and communications, rising to Assistant Director at a tech PR agency, before founding High Flying Design.
Alongside editing the magazine, Shannon freelances as a Squarespace web designer, working mostly with wedding venues, beauty and wellness businesses, and small businesses whose websites undersell them.
Shannon features in Blatella Films' 2026 documentary redefining the Essex Girl stereotype and supports Kurandza.
Reach her at hello@highflyingdesign.com
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