I’m a cheerleader for the brilliant humans who are ready to bet on themselves and start building their income around their ideal life.

Most people have this backwards. Most people spend more time in a workplace than they do with the people they love. They’re working towards a mythical future that will likely never materialise — until they have a paradigm shift around money itself, and the stories they tell themselves about it.

Who am I to preach this?!

I’m a perfect human, who has all her sh*t together, who knows all the secrets for getting mega-rich, while permanently travelling the world with a laptop and smashing goals in all areas of life.

Not to mention documenting it all in perfectly filtered photos on social media. Y’know, like all these other internet-famous life coaches?

That’s what you want to hear, right?

No? OK, fine. Here’s the truth…

Before becoming a coach, I had actually achieved a few of those things — and it wasn’t exactly a terrible way to live.

I feel like most people get to a point where they think about pursuing “something better” than whatever life they’ve defaulted into… but few actually start doing anything about it. Hopefully, if you’ve made it this far, you’re in the latter category and ready to start the doing.

There’s no cheesy “I was down to my last $27 sleeping on my friend’s couch” story here. I had a decent childhood — parents divorced when I was 6, both hardworking middle-class types. I followed the traditional ‘system’ in state-funded education and got onto the standard trajectory of underwhelming employment after uni, with several doses of travel thrown in during my twenties.

I started my first ‘internet side hustle’ around my full-time corporate sales job in London, in 2013. I quit that job 18 months later, after learning to leverage a variety of strategies to earn income online.

My main motivation was always to create the flexibility to work when and where I want to — although it’s hard to beat the Gold Coast of Australia, where I’m now based.

Quitting the ‘rat race’ was by far one of the best decisions of my life for my happiness. For almost a decade, I’ve had the freedom to spend plenty of time experiencing new adventures, travel, space to deal with life’s curveballs, visiting friends all over the world and quality time with family members before losing some of them.

That last one resulted in a steep learning curve in two things that deeply impact our human experience: navigating loss and grief, and how the current monetary system works — specifically, how it doesn’t serve the happiness of the majority of individuals, or society as a whole.

I walk my talk…

I’ve invested over $200k of my own money — plus thousands of hours of time — into my own personal growth, mentorship and professional development. There is no question this is the main reason I turned 40 with a seven-figure net worth.

You will NEVER regret investing in yourself.

I am absolutely not a perfect human who has all her sh*t together… but in the specific area of figuring out who I am and leveraging it to make a living, I’ve walked my talk, got results, and helped a lot of other people do the same.

My core philosophy

Leave. Nothing. Unsaid.

I believe our best everything is on the other side of our most courageous and authentic conversations — starting with the one we are having with ourselves.

Humans are blessed with the ability to communicate and express themselves like no other species. Sadly, too many of us are under-utilising it, and as a result not reaching anywhere close to our potential — which isn’t great for society. We need to get a lot better at talking to each other — not texting, emailing and passive-aggressive social-media posting.

The two most commonly cited causes of divorce are communication and financial issues. My theory is that if we did a better job of having conversations about money — a basic human need — maybe we’d do better at a few other things too.

How I roll…

More life. Less coaching.

Be You. Get Paid. isn’t about becoming someone you’re not.

It’s about learning the things many of us were never taught at school.

Be You is about understanding yourself. Developing a growth mindset, recognising your natural strengths, questioning inherited assumptions, and becoming intentional about the life you’re trying to build.

Get Paid is about turning that understanding into action in the real world. Building relevant, valuable skills, creating useful things, exploring new opportunities and designing income around the life you actually want—not the other way around.

I no longer offer one-to-one coaching, and that’s intentional.

I witnessed too much of the coaching industry encouraging dependence (presumably to create lifelong clients?!). In today’s world, I believe the opposite approach is needed now more than ever.

In my opinion, the best teachers, mentors and coaches help people think for themselves and build confidence in their own decisions — ultimately aiming to become less reliant on outside guidance… (I’m hoping to achieve a similar journey in parenting, since becoming one at the “geriatric” age of 42!).

That’s why I now focus on sharing ideas, frameworks and practical insights that help you see money, work and life through a different lens.

If that sounds like the kind of conversation you’d like to be part of, I’d love you to join the newsletter below or tag along on social media as the journey continues.

The language of your value in action, is the money that finds its way to you as a result.

A life of freedom and happiness looks uniquely different for every individual. Your most important job — as a matter of urgency — is to do whatever it takes to figure out what that means for you.