How to Prepare for an Order Spike When You Do Everything Yourself
The product may be the thing people fall in love with, but the business is everything that happens after someone decides to buy it.
How Your Environment Shapes the Way You Think, Work and Lead
We optimise our calendars and workflows, but rarely ask whether our surroundings are helping or hindering us. Rachel Clacher, Co-Founder of Coertze + Clacher, on why environment is never neutral and what it means for the way you build.
What It Takes to Win at Running a Business
Ellie Johnson introduced three operating principles that changed how she runs her business — and how she shows up in it. On discipline, balance and organisation as the foundations of sustainable growth.
What Happened When I Stopped Trying to Be “Normal”
She spent years treating her creative, idea-driven brain as something to manage and suppress. Then she stopped — and her business grew faster than it ever had. Danielle Thompson on creativity as a business input, not a personality flaw.
Five Behaviour Change Tactics That Actually Improve How You Work
Anna Hutton spent years in survival mode before applying her behaviour change expertise to her own working life. On the five tactics that made her calmer, more productive and less burnt out.
The Truth About Those "Productive" Hours That Are Stealing Your Business Growth
Busy work. Builder work. Breakthrough work. Claire Bartlett on why most founders are spending 60% of their time on the wrong category — and what actually moves a business forward.
Working With Your Seasons: Why Business Growth for Female Founders Isn’t Meant to Be Linear
Kate Kurdziej tried to run her business like growth should be a staircase. In 2022 it nearly broke her. On seasonal rhythms, the wavy growth model, and why designing your work around your energy changes everything.
Why You’re Tired at 3PM (And How Your Office Might Be to Blame)
It might not be your habits making you crash at 3pm. It could be your walls, your lighting, your plants — or lack of them. A practical guide to designing a workspace that actually supports your energy.
How AI Is Eroding Critical Thinking and Creativity at Work
AI can draft your emails, plan your content and polish your pitch. But when we outsource too much too soon, something important happens. Sara Sabin on the hidden cost of cognitive offloading — and why your most irreplaceable asset is still being human.