Field Notes
Honest reflections. Quiet breakthroughs. Soulful prompts. Plus, the personal rituals, reads, and recipes to keep you grounded whilst building a business with heart.
Crafting a Business With Soul
I’m a business artisan. I didn’t read about this way in a book, but I created it unknowingly, and lived it, with my very first business: Utterly Horses.
The Summer I Said Yes to Rest
For the first time in my working life, I took two whole weeks off.
No Zoom calls. No client deadlines. No squeezing in emails while my daughter wasn’t looking.
Summer Fiction for the Soul
Fiction has a quiet magic. It doesn’t just entertain but it helps us feel, reflect, and reimagine who we are. This summer, alongside the dreaming and doing of The Quiet Reset, I’m turning to stories that celebrate the quiet heroes.
Reclaiming the Dream: When Your Vision Gets Lost in the Doing
Dreams are like shadows. Everyone has at least dream tucked inside their heart, one that often stays there for years waiting to breathe life in the outside world.
Summer Reads to Dream, Reflect & Reset
For me, summer is the perfect time to reset, to step back, reflect, and realign with what really matters. That’s the heart of The Quiet Reset, and it’s also the spirit behind this reading list.
Why I Stopped Following Business Advice That Didn’t Feel Right
I used to be obsessed with business advice. At 16 I was reading business books at bedtime, pages written during the dotcom bubble, laced with hustle, scale, and "think big" energy.
Homemade Butter Recipe
That first bite says it all — salty, smooth, creamy butter, piled high on a thick slice of crusty bread or melting into a freshly baked croissant.
Finding My Way Back to Creativity (Without Monetising It)
You never realise how creativity fuels everything you do until you feel utterly disconnected from what you do.
Next level Bacon Sarnies Recipe
A fluffy flatbread, filled with crispy bacon, smooth cream cheese, coriander, and a spoonful of sweet, spicy chilli jam. Bacon sandwiches are already a thing of beauty, but this recipe takes the classic bacon sarnie to the next level.
The Day I Walked Away From Retainers That Paid the Bills
When I made one of the biggest decisions of my life, there was no grand announcement or dramatic Instagram post. It was just the quiet click of “send” on an email and the whoosh that followed.
Venetian-Inspired Cicchetti Recipe
Summer especially lends itself to this kind of eating. When the heat makes full-on cooking feel like a bit much, having a few flavour-packed bites to graze on is ideal.
Building a Business Without the Hustle Hangover
The antidote to the rushing, the forcing, the spreadsheets and targets and to-do lists that grow magically overnight like mushrooms.
Shake it up! Lime & Mint Mocktail Recipe
It’s zingy, fizzy, and wonderfully easy. The kind of drink that makes everything feel just a little bit more like summer.
Why crafting the business you really want is the most powerful thing you can do.
There’s a story we’ve all been told, in that your work and your life are two separate things. It’s totally wrong…
What Burnout Taught Me About Boundaries and Belonging
A raw reflection on pushing too hard, people-pleasing, and what I changed after the crash.
Where shall you go next?
Listen to other founders
What is it like to build a business on your terms? In a series of fireside chats, we peel back the curtain to hear from entrepreneurs and visionaries who have crafted businesses their way, sharing their inspiration, ethos, and why they do what they do.
Reconnect to that feeling
That dream, that vision for your business is still there, buried by the to-do lists and demands of life. In The Quiet Reset we push pause together, and take some time to reflect, and reconnect with what you actually want from your business, and your life.
What does it take to build
a business on your terms?
Join us to find out in these deeply personal, initimate and real conversations. We’re going Quietly Bold.