Hey Reader, A few weeks ago, I started a cool experiment for my new book The Guilt-Free Calling. I opened pre-orders. I've never done this before and there's a whole rationale behind why this is not the full launch, not the big push, just a quiet pre-sale to the people closest to my work, with an invitation to shape the book before it goes out into the world. So far sixty-nine said yes. So I'm reaching out to you to see if you'd like to be part of creating this book. Where we're at right now...

Hi Reader, This is going out to you guys in the Masterclass Club to make sure you get your spot saved for the upcoming celebration with Wendy and Stewart. I honestly love doing these because a) we get to really celebrate the achievements of some very special people (remember the lovely Anastasia's and Louises!) b) we get to learn together the messiness of how things actually work - and that gives us all faith when times are tough I'll also talk to you a bit about the Impact Activator program...

Hey Reader, I’m hosting a celebration for two amazing people. And I’ll leave space for your questions. Would you like to come? Just hit reply and I’ll send you the link. Stewart joined Impact Activator with one goal. He wanted to write a pitch to get paid for the volunteer work he was already doing. What he walked away with was something different entirely. A completely different sense of what was possible for him. The next thing I knew, he'd co-organised his first ever conference. In New...

Hello Reader, It's Tuesday morning, the kettle's on, and I just realised I skipped a week! The heat got to me. I gotta tell ya, the UK isn't really built for 30+ degrees, and neither am I. The kettle stayed off. The emails stayed unwritten. The book stayed in the holding pattern from the week before. I went and lay flat for a few days like a sensible person :) (well not quite but as much as I could!) Anyway, here's the exciting news. By the time you're reading this email, the manuscript is no...

Hello Reader, Honestly I felt like the book is in a holding pattern. I'm waiting for the final comments. Waiting to send everything to the editor. Waiting. Honestly, waiting is not my favourite. Then this comment came in. Left at the very end of the book by one of you. And the whole holding pattern made sense. "So the biggest insights are, again, that I've been targeting the wrong audience, and trying to teach what I think people want vs. what I know. I'm going to review my LinkedIn profile...

Hey Reader, Thank you, thank you, thank you! The feedback is coming in on the book, and it's wonderful! Here's where we are: 81 readers 33 started 5 completed 302 reactions left so far I'm so grateful to everyone who read, left a comment and helped this book become useful AND - the number that catches my eye is the gap between readers and started. 48 of you have the book and haven't opened it yet. If that's you, this week is the week :) Here's why this Tuesday is different from the others....

Hey Reader, Last week I told you about a gathering I'm speaking at in New York on May 2–3. This week I want to tell you about the people who'll be in the room, because the range of experience is unusual. Between us, we've worked in prisons, addiction services, military settings, healthcare systems, schools, and community organisations. Quite an impressive mix if I do say so myself :) Sadly, we've all seen people written off by every system designed to help them. And we've each, in different...

I spent much of Saturday editing the webinar in writhing I co-hosted with Maria Iliffe-Wood plus this trailer 👇 (actually the trailer took the longest time!) Anyhoo, I’m pretty pleased with the result. We talked about writing, voice, and the surprising things that happen when we come from the deep voice, letting go of the shoulds. Listening back I could see this was not just about writing a book. It’s about finding your voice. The full version lands on Tuesday 14 April. Have a watch of the...

Hey Reader, I want to tell you about something I'm doing in May — and why it matters to me. And why it could matter to you. For years, I worked inside systems that were designed to help people. Prisons. Addiction services. Re-entry programmes. And I saw something that most of those systems miss entirely. The people they're trying to fix aren't broken. That's not a nice idea. It's what I've witnessed, hundreds of times over, and it's what the research supports. When you meet someone with...