About High Flying Design
Launched as a personal and professional growth magazine in 2025, High Flying Design was ranked #8 in FeedSpot's Top 50 Women's Magazines within months, and reaches a growing readership of women in business and female founders across the UK and US.
The magazine is built on a simple belief: you can't picture a life you've never seen someone live. Most of us only chase the things we've watched someone like us do first. And when it comes to women running their own businesses, far too many of us have never seen it up close. Eight out of ten young people in the UK can't name a single female entrepreneur, a quiet ceiling on what girls, and grown women, believe is possible for them.
So this is the proof. Honest interviews with real women building real businesses right now, told the way they actually happened, not the polished, already-made-it version. And alongside the proof, the practical part: advice on business, mindset and life from women a few steps ahead, so wherever you are, just starting or reaching for your next level, you can see what's possible and find your way there.
Because building a business was never only about the business. It changes you too. And most of the women we speak to don't need to become someone else. They need to see that what they're building is good, that they're further along than they think, and that there's no single right way to do this. A high-flyer here isn't the one with the biggest numbers or the slickest brand. She's the woman building her own thing, her own way, and being quietly proud of what that is.
Meet our editor, Shannon Kate Murray
High Flying Design was founded and edited by Shannon Kate Murray, based in Essex.
Shannon studied Fashion Journalism at the University for Creative Arts, graduating with a first, then spent over a decade in marketing, PR and communications. She climbed to Assistant Director of Marketing and Operations at a B2B tech agency, the title she thought she was meant to want, but found that the conventional version of success didn't feel like hers. That realisation, that success looks different for every woman and you get to define your own, became the belief High Flying Design is built on.
She features in Blatella Films' 2026 documentary redefining the Essex Girl stereotype.
High Flying Design supports Kurandza, a non-profit funding girls' education in Mozambique. Investing in a girl's education changes what's possible for her, which is the belief this whole magazine runs on.
Get in touch: hello@highflyingdesign.com