A Half Managed Mind

12/09/2025

Being the one who gets sh*t done is the very thing stopping you from getting the business of leading done.

Here’s the truth they don’t tell you in leadership training (if indeed you actually got any!)

➡️ What made you a rockstar individual contributor will burn you out as a leader (and guarantee that any A players on your team move on...)

I see it every day:

Brilliant women burning out because they're operating from 3 key identity myths that worked before but are sabotaging them now.

# 1
💡 The Indispensable Problem-Solver: The first port of call for every "emergency" because you're good at solving issues.

Here's why it's a problem: Though it feels great to be so useful, your value as a leader isn't measured by how many fires you put out.

It's measured by how few fires start in the first place.

# 2
💡 The “I’ll Just Do It Myself” Martyr: You tell yourself it’s faster and more effective to take care of it yourself rather than leaving it to the right person.

Here's why that's a problem:
It IS faster today. But tomorrow? You're just solving that and 3 more problems that cropped up.
Now you don't have time for what you should actually be doing.

Leadership is 80% strategic planning, people and processes, 20% doing. Not the other way around.

# 3
💡 The Secret Doubter: You have a quiet voice whispering, “Am I really cut out for this?” and you are starting to believe it.

Here's why that's a problem:
That voice isn't reporting the news. It's fear mongering.

Leadership isn't about being perfect.

It's about being human enough to inspire other humans to be their best.

Breaking free isn't about learning another productivity hack.

It’s about shedding an old identity to make space for a new one.

❓Which trap resonates most? 1, 2, or 3?
👇 Drop a number in the comments.

27/08/2025

If you're working late to protect their work-life balance, sacrificing your weekends to finish tasks , and missing out on family time, this training is for you.

In this training, you'll learn:
The Real Cost of the "Protection" Mindset
👉🏼 Why shielding creates helplessness

The Identity Shift That Changes Everything
👉🏼 From indispensable problem solver to team empowerer

The Team Empowerment Protocol
👉🏼 5 simple steps to delegate without guilt

Perfect If You:
✅ Manage 3+ people but do most of the work yourself
✅ Work evenings because "it's faster if I just do it"
✅ Want your team to step up but worry about overwhelming them

26/08/2025

"It's easier to just do it myself. Faster too."

I hear this DAILY from women I work with.

(And I’ve said it myself too!)

There’s just one problem.

It’s not true.

Even if you are the quickest, most efficient person on your team, it’s NOT faster and easier to do it all yourself.

Why?

Because it makes you:

Overworked

Do tasks well below your skill level

Not do the important, strategic work

I know… I know…

We have good reasons for believing the lie.

Like

“I don't trust the person on my team will do it right” (i.e. how I would do it)

“I don't want to delegate boring work” (i.e. work I don’t enjoy or find challenging)

“I don't have time to teach them to do it” (i.e. immediately available time)

Sound familiar?

If yes, I'd like to offer you a new way to think about this.

Put it this way:

If you're spending time working on tasks that don’t need your level of expertise…

You're cheating your company and yourself.

If you're holding on to boring, easy tasks,

You're taking them away from someone who could learn from doing them.

If you don’t invest in teaching your team,

You’ll never have time for the important strategic work you want to do.

Your team want a chance to learn and grow.

You want headspace to get ahead and be proactive.

So delegate what you know you should be delegating,

And spend your time on what matters most.

Want help overcoming the top 3 reasons why leaders struggle to delegate? Join me at 12:30 UK time for my live training on The Delegation Trap.

Live on my page.

22/08/2025

Are you stuck thinking "I can't ask them to do more - they're already drowning"?

If you're a woman leading a team who's:

Working evenings and weekends because "there's no one else to do it"

Stepping in to solve problems your team should be handling

Feeling guilty about delegating because your team seems overwhelmed

Worried that asking for more will push good people to quit

👉🏼 You're not protecting your team. You're trapping them.

And if you join me on August 27th, I'm going to show you exactly how to change that.
For GOOD.

This Session Is Perfect If You:
✅ Manage 3+ people and feel responsible for everything they do

✅ Work late because "it's faster if I just do it myself"

✅ Want your team to step up but worry about overwhelming them

✅ Dream of finishing work at 6pm without guilt

✅ Know you need to delegate more but don't know how to start

This Session Isn't For You If:
❌ You're looking for basic time management tips
❌ You don't have direct reports or team responsibilities
❌ You're not ready to examine your leadership identity

Ready to Stop Protecting Your Team Into Underperformance?

📲 Set a reminder now - this is 30 minutes that could save you hours every week - and come join me on my page on August 27th

💬 Have questions? Drop them in the comments and I'll address them during the live session.

🔄 Know someone who needs this? Tag them below - leadership doesn't have to be this exhausting.

20/08/2025

Running a team or a business is no picnic.

Especially when you don't have a clear system in place for managing your team.

One VP I worked with came to me feeling like she was constantly on call.

Any decision the company made, and her phone would be inundated with texts and phone calls from her team - wanting explanations, dispensations and hand holding.

She couldn't even finish a cup of coffee without someone needing her attention.

She felt drained, and frustrated, and unfairly taken advantage of.

But also, she loved that her team felt comfortable coming to her with whatever they needed.
She felt trusted, and needed.

And exhausted!

My LeaderShift Method changed all that, in just a couple of months.

Following this method she was able to empower her team to take ownership of solving their own problems.

(Most of the time).

Now she can enjoy her coffee, undisturbed - and their results have never been better.
She knew her department was a gold mine.
But now they're actually pulling the nuggets out.

One process...

5 steps from overwhelmed, scattered and stressed to calm, in control and enjoying your role.

Simple.

Straightforward.

Interested?

Let's talk.

17/08/2025

Everyone feels like an imposter sometimes.

Until they do what Maria did. Read on to find out how she beat self doubt in just a few weeks 👇

Your finger hovers over the 'send' button.

You’ve drafted an email to the heads of department, but a voice inside whispers:

"What if they think it’s stupid?
What if they question your authority?
What if they realise you don't really know what you’re talking about?". 😖

And you hesitate.
You re-read the email again (and again).
You tweak a word here, add a comma there...

And before you know it... It's been an hour.

This was Maria's daily reality.

Despite her decades of success as a Head of HR, she confessed, "I've second-guessed myself the entire way through".

The problem wasn't a lack of knowledge; it was a deeply ingrained feeling of being an imposter.
It cost her the confidence she needed to build key relationships and be a visible leader.

But then she drew a line in the sand.

❌ The solution wasn't another qualification.

❌ Nor another management training course.

✅ It was building a new kind of inner dialogue.

I helped Maria to redirect her brain.

We did two things: gather evidence, and break the cycle.

She created an email folder filled with positive feedback and successful projects. Now, whenever self-doubt crept in, she'd open that folder and remind herself:

"Hey, I do know what I'm talking about. I have the proof right here!".

This wasn't about avoiding a problem. It was about facing it.

Maria’s team flourished because she did.

She went from being paralyzed by self-doubt to leading with a newfound courage and authenticity.
She learned that confidence isn't about never having doubts—it's about learning to push past them and trust your own judgment.

What's stopping you from starting your own journey today?

If Maria can do it, so can you.

16/08/2025

Why don't I just coach executives?

Why focus on women just BELOW board level?

It's a question I get asked surprisingly frequently.

I mean, I get it - people wanting to give me business advice think “Execs have more money. That makes it a better business idea.”

They’re not wrong.

Just misguided about what drives me.

Here’s the thing:

I've seen firsthand the unique pressures placed on women in senior roles.

The "sandwich generation" phenomenon,

the battle against imposter syndrome,

and the guilt of never feeling like you're enough, either at work or at home.

These AREN’T universal leadership problems!

(Sorry men, even though you feel these things too, society’s expectations and your conditioning matter!)

I coach women just below board level because, for many of us, if we don’t get some f*$%ing support now, we won’t make it to Executive roles.

We’ll decide that the fight isn’t worth it.

That pretending to like golf, or ci**rs and whiskey for yet another executive team building day is not worth it.

That being ignored, talked over and expected to do all the office housekeeping is too high of a price to pay when our kids are growing up fast and we didn’t become parents to pay someone else to raise them…

And we wouldn’t be wrong.

BUT

We would be missing out.

Our companies are missing out.

And our kids are missing out on the example we could be of what life satisfaction looks like.

THAT’S WHY.

Because if we want more female CEOs…

If we want a vibrant & growing economy…

If we want true equality of opportunity…

Women need help BEFORE they burn out.

My work isn’t just about tactics. It's about empowering women to become a new kind of leader—an Essentialist Leader.

It's about creating a profound shift in their relationship with work, so they can achieve success without sacrificing themselves.

The end result is an authentic, respected, and sustainable leadership style that feels 100% like you.

If you've ever felt this struggle, I’m curious.

Do you want to change it? Let us know in the comments so we know that we’re not alone.

15/08/2025

She broke down in the supermarket over baking powder.

A successful senior leader. Respected by her team. Trusted by hundreds of clients.

Sobbing in aisle 7.

Here’s how it started…

4 AM.

The alarm pierces the darkness. Again. She slapped it off quickly so her husband didn’t wake up.

Alana's feet hit the cold floor.

Push through. Go a little longer than everyone else. There’s so much to do!

She was the master juggler.

Business running smoothly. Team depending on her. Clients trusting her.

But inside?

She was crumbling.

Then came that supermarket moment.

Such a small thing. One missing ingredient. Just baking powder for her daughter's birthday cake.

But there wasn’t any left.

A surge of emotion swelled through her chest.

She couldn’t stop it.

She was losing it.

Tears streamed down her face.

Her hands shook as frantically searched and searched the shelf.

A stranger stopped their trolley next to her and gave her a concerned look, but didn’t speak.

That's when she knew.

This had gone too far.

Because it wasn’t about baking powder.

It was about a woman stretched so thin she could snap at any moment. A leader who'd forgotten she was human.

"The work will never be done," she whispered to herself that night. "I need to make peace with that."

So, even though she was scared… She stopped pushing.

We started with one simple thing: Moving her alarm from 4am to 5:30.

That's it.

The results?

Mind-blowing.

Same amount of work completed. Actually more productive. Better decisions. Clearer thinking.

Her team noticed immediately.

"You seem... different," her assistant said. "More present. More calm."

Alana discovered the secret:

The more she honored herself, the more she showed up for everyone else.

The more time she gave herself, the more time she had for her team.

The more she slept, the more she got done.

What if your breakthrough isn't about doing more?

What if it's about being kinder to the person in the mirror?

Alana found her answer.

What's yours?

07/08/2025

No on likes having more work than can fit into the time you have. Ever.

But it's even worse during the summer holidays.

You've tried every productivity hack.
You've blocked time in your calendar.
You've attempted to "set boundaries."

Yet here you are, apologising at the summer camp gates for being late again... While your kids hide behind your legs to avoid being teased for missing the start of morning football...

The problem isn't that you're bad at time management.

It's that you've been conditioned to believe that you need to prove your worth through constant availability & jumping in to solve every problem.

Your competence has become your prison.

Every crisis you handle personally teaches your team to escalate more to you. Every late night "catching up" reinforces that you're the bottleneck, not the leader.

Meanwhile, your family gets the exhausted, distracted version of you.

👉🏼 This ends on August 12th.

I'm opening up the exact framework I use with executive clients who've reclaimed 10-15 hours per week while their teams perform BETTER than ever.

In 60 minutes, you'll discover:
✅ How to identify your MVP in any situation
✅ The secret to saying "No" to extra tasks without guilt
✅ What you need to focus on for the rest of the year to make it your most impactful yet

This isn't theory.

This is a hands-on workshop, not a lecture. You'll leave with your personal implementation plan.

Spaces are deliberately limited because this requires real interaction and personal attention.

If you're ready to stop proving your worth through exhaustion and start commanding respect through authentic leadership...

Comment "INVITE" and I'll send you the private workshop details.

(WARNING: This approach will fundamentally change how you see your role. Only apply if you're ready to become the leader your team needs, not the one they depend on.)

30/07/2025

28/07/2025

It seems like the harder you work as a senior leader, the more trapped you feel.

You are skilled.

You are knowledgeable.

Your competence has brought you great success.

So naturally, you've become the "go-to problem solver."

You take responsibility.

You fix everything.

This feels like how a good leader operates.

And yet… Your colleagues don’t seem to value you as much as your workload suggests they should.

So where’s the disconnect?

In a deep-seated belief many caring, competent leaders hold:

"If I don't do it, it won't get done right. Or it won’t get done at ALL."

This belief subconsciously fuels your leadership identity as the "Indispensable Problem Solver".

This identity, which used to be powerful, is inadvertently causing your greatest stress.

It leads to working excessive hours, feeling overly responsible, and missing out on your yoga classes, your kids' soccer games and dance recitals - and those elusive “date nights” you used to enjoy so much.

Your overwhelm isn't a capacity issue…

(Even though it feels like there’s just too much to do and not enough time to do it in!)

That’s why nothing you've tried so far has helped.

Because you’re trying to fix your workload, when that not actually the problem.

Your overwhelm is an identity and permission problem.

To transform your leadership & achieve significant results with far less personal effort and stress…

You have to change the way you see yourself in relation to your work.

And how you define the value you add.

You have to reprogram a pattern that no longer serves the leader you're becoming.

Which is EXACTLY what I’ll show you how to do as part of the LeaderShift Method.

Ready to shift your identity and reclaim your time?

Join my FREE Webinar on July 30th: Master 5 Essentialist Leader Skills to find out exactly what’s holding you back.

Link to sign up is in my bio.

24/07/2025

The real reason most people “fail” at time management has nothing to do with the system.

It’s because they overlook this one key element 👇

Your desk is a graveyard of abandoned planners.

Your phone, a monument to forgotten apps.

Every new hack promised control, but life – urgent demands, team crises, guilt – pulled you back.

"Why does this never work for me?" you wonder.

It's a relentless, frustrating cycle.

Your "failure" isn't your fault.

Because here’s the missing element:

These tools only treat symptoms., not the root cause.

You're fighting a volume problem when it’s actually deeper identity and permission problem.

Society subtly taught you a "good leader" is an "Indispensable Problem Solver".

Always available, perfect.

This belief, aligning with your competence, is why every system crumbles.

It makes delegation risky and stops boundaries from sticking.

Because you’re forcing external solutions onto an internal conflict.

Lasting change isn't about managing time.

It's about managing your MIND.

Address that underlying belief that makes you feel guilty and responsible?

Delegation becomes natural.

Boundaries easy to hold.

Overwhelm, a thing of the past.

Leadership feels effortless and authentic.

Ready to stop the cycle and lead with genuine ease?

I'm hosting a masterclass: Essentialist Leadership: The 5 skills to master for Effortless Impact

I'll reveal the exact reframe you're missing which is why time management has been failing you (and what you can do instead to free up hours every week).

No more apps. Just actual results.

Click the link in bio to register. See you there!