I’ve only just realised that I didn’t write a launch day post. No doubt I was busy praying that everything linked together and that there were no errors in the order and payment process. It was a major high for me that four years from incorporating a business, I was finally selling products. I was …
I’m realising that I need to strengthen my mental rebound game. I think psychological resilience is vital for someone trying to build something from nothing, you have to have a really strong mind. Perhaps they weren’t ‘The One’ I’ve written about the Tsunami of Doubt that washes over me from time to time. It’s really …
There is this feeling I get every now and again. It tends to come when I’m approaching – or actively hitting my head against – a brick wall. Obviously not an actual brick wall. The only way to describe it is as a giant wave of doubt. A Tsunami of Doubt. I’m going to get …
I haven’t written for two weeks now as I’ve felt like I’ve been surrounded by fog. Things are not clear at the moment – my mind feels a bit like the image above – mixed up play doh. For the first time in my living memory, so many of us are in the same position. …
On days like today, the first line of Lauryn Hill’s Ex-Factor plays over and over and over again in my mind. It could all be so simple; but you’d rather make it hard. Ms Lauryn Hill These are the days where it’s really hard doing two jobs…actually, let’s make that three to four jobs to …
I’ll be honest, when we went into lockdown, I was ANGRY. A huge part of me was anxious, like many others- especially around public health and the impact on our NHS. Aside from that I thought, you really couldn’t make this up could you? Just as I was due to receive tech packs, prototypes and …
I struggled to decide whether I should write this post. It’s boring and it sounds like a moan (because it definitely is a moan), but then I remembered the whole purpose of documenting this journey is to keep it real. Starting a business isn’t all about willing success to happen, working really hard and then …
When someone asks me this question, I groan silently and deeply inside. Depending on how beat up I’m feeling, sometimes the groan is audible. There is nothing wrong with this question, those of you that ask me, please don’t stop asking me. The groan has everything to do with me and nothing to do with …
Vendor at trade show: Hi Me: Hi! Does your factory do digital printing? Vendor at trade show: Yes we do (friendly smile back). We only do sublimination printing. Me: Wonderful. (shoulders back, confident, ‘I mean business voice’) I’d like to print on 100% cotton at approximately x GSM. Can you help me with this? Vendor …
I don’t like mess, I don’t like untidy spaces, to be honest I don’t deal well with aesthetic chaos. However, you would never think this looking at my house because with two children under three, the house stays neat for approximately 30 minutes each week. These are the first 30 minutes after the (wonderful, sanity …