I left school, studied Accounting and Finance (not because it lit me up but because it had good career prospects) and before I knew it I was thirty, an accountant and an adult!
In my early thirties, my life shifted. A divorce. A new city. The beginning of what should have been an intentional new chapter but then COVID arrived and that plan dissolved over Zoom calls and far too many bottles of wine. I was working long hours, my mental health was deteriorating and I was quietly questioning everything.
My choices. My future. My identity.
And the truth I kept coming back to was that I had built an entire adult life I had never actually chosen. Alcohol was woven through it, yes. But so was the box-ticking. The keeping-going. The never-asking whether any of it was mine. I took tactical break and felt extraordinary but then started drinking again because it was someone's birthday or a holiday or just a Friday. Until 2022, when I made the decision, properly and finally, to stop.
It was a bold move. And it was the move that unlocked all the next ones.
My Journey ...
I started training to become a coach, because I needed somewhere to channel the energy that alcohol had been absorbing for twenty years, and something remarkable began to happen. For the first time in my life, I started to focus on myself. Not the version of me that everyone else needed. Not the version of me who was always agreeing to the next thing, going through the motions, holding the glass.
The real version. And she had opinions. She had ambitions. She had boundaries she'd never enforced.
I turned down a promotion that felt completely misaligned. Something I would never have had the clarity to do before. A year later, I was starting a new role in Germany, living as an expat, fulfilling a dream I'd quietly held for years.
I rebuilt my friendships, not by losing people, but by understanding which relationships needed to evolve and finding the courage to let them. I built new connections that were rooted in who I actually am, not who I was performing for the room.
I went from thinking I was open-minded to realising I absolutely wasn't. I started wild swimming. I trained for and ran my first half marathon. I discovered that Saturday nights could be extraordinary without a drink in hand and that Sunday mornings were the best part of my week. It opened up my world to possibilities I'd have dismissed as completely ridiculous three years ago. And eventually, I reached my career high, CFO before 40
Within three months of making the move, my entire life changed direction.
I understand your world because I've lived in it.
And I know what it feels like to question your entire identity, because the one you have been wearing isn't yours.
I know the strange joy of a first wild swim, a first sober holiday, a first run you actually finish, a first decision you make for yourself and only yourself.
I know what it is to want something so badly you can almost taste it, and to talk yourself out of it by Monday morning. Again.
I know what it feels like to walk into a room where everyone seems certain about the life they have built, and to quietly wonder whether yours is actually yours.
I know what it is to watch your travel friends slowly disappear as they settle down, and to quietly wonder where your people are.
This is not about sobriety.
It's about identity.
Making a bold move doesn't just change one chapter of your life. It changes everything: the way you see yourself, the relationships you want, the career moves you are brave enough to make, and the version of your life you are finally willing to demand.
My coaching is for women who are quietly bored of fine. Who have been almost making a bold move for years and are ready to actually make it. Some of you have already quit drinking. Some haven't. The work goes deeper than that either way.
Together, we explore:
This is not surface-level. This is not a podcast or a self-help book.
This is deep, personalised coaching with someone who has made the bold moves and has the career, the community, and the life she is genuinely proud of to show for it.
Your mindset, your wellbeing and the life you're designing on purpose
The relationships you need to let evolve and the new ones worth building
What to do with all the space that bold moves create. The Saturday nights. The Sunday mornings. The mental clarity you have never quite let yourself have.
The identity shift that you are feeling
Your confidence, your boundaries, your career trajectory
Who you are now and who you're becoming
Why Invest in Coaching?
You've spent money on the holidays, the hotel rooms with incredible views, the handbag you told yourself would
“go with everything”. You've invested in everything that looks good from the outside. And some of it does feel good.
But you already know that none of it is filling the gap. Isn't it time to invest in what feels extraordinary from the inside?
The women who work with me are not looking for a quick fix. They are incredible women who are ready to stop starting things and never finishing them. Ready to finally build the version of themselves they've always known was possible.
My coaching qualifications include a diploma that is triple-accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Association for Coaching (AC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), the three most respected bodies in the coaching industry.
I am a CIMA-qualified accountant, a CFO and a Positive Psychology coach. My approach is grounded in evidence-based psychology, lived experience and a complete refusal to let my clients stay small.
I also practise what I preach. I have invested significantly in my own growth: in coaches, mentors and programmes that have challenged me, stretched me and shaped the way I work. I know first-hand what it feels like to be the client in that seat, to make the decision to invest in yourself when it feels uncomfortable and to come out the other side knowing it was the best decision you ever made.
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