About High Flying Design
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 place it has held in 2025 and 2026.
Most business media is written for one kind of founder: the one raising money, scaling fast and heading for an exit. When 2,225 UK female founders were surveyed for the Rise Report, 53% defined success as stability and profitability, 38% as scale and exit, and 21% as working on their own terms with time for a life outside the business. We write for all of them. We publish the practical side of building a business, from getting clients to grants, pensions and PR, alongside confidence, burnout and looking after yourself while you do it. We also publish interviews with women running businesses now. They are a reminder that nobody else has it figured out either, whatever it looks like on socials.
More than sixty women have written for High Flying Design, each on the one thing she has worked out for herself. If that's you and you've got something to say, we'd like to hear from you.
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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.
She grew up in Clacton-on-Sea and was told more than once that what she wanted wasn't realistic for someone from where she was from. She has built the magazine on the opposite idea, that where you start has no authority over where you end up.
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 of Marketing and Operations at ThoughtLDR.
Alongside editing the magazine, Shannon freelances as a Squarespace web designer, working mostly with small businesses whose website is underselling them.
She appears in Blatella Films' 2026 documentary redefining the Essex Girl stereotype, and actively supports Kurandza.
Reach her at hello@highflyingdesign.com