My work is shaped by a lifelong immersion in ethical, intuitive, and cyclical business.
It began in childhood, watching my mum sell her water-colour art and launching my first business at eleven, selling handmade fimo animals from her market stalls. That early blend of creativity and commerce grew through bold, culture-shifting projects — from producing feminist events and films, to travelling the world creating spiritual, environmental documentaries. As a founding team member of TreeSisters, I apprenticed in cyclical leadership, learning to run organisations in rhythm with nature and the menstrual cycle.
Since then, I’ve co-founded a women’s health network, worked alongside world-class marketing teams supporting visionary leaders, and helped hundreds of people shape businesses that honour both purpose and profit. Through my role with Red School and as host of the Menstruality podcast — with over 400,000 downloads — I continue to amplify conversations that reconnect business, creativity, and leadership to the body, the earth, and our deeper wisdom.
My capacity as a guide has been forged through lived experience.
Burnout and chronic illness in my twenties — and fifteen years of ongoing pain — initiated me into resilience, somatic healing, and an embodied understanding of how patriarchal systems live in our bodies.
A decade of severe premenstrual disruption led me to menstrual cycle awareness, and ultimately to life-altering decisions that taught me how transformative it can be to honour our cyclical nature in a linear world.
Years of infertility and the eventual birth of my son reshaped my relationship with trust and faith, while motherhood during the Covid lockdowns demanded deep nervous system regulation and revealed new layers of strength.
Alongside this, my ongoing study and activism in anti-racism, uncolonising work, and Black feminist thought has continually humbled and refined my leadership, guiding me to dismantle oppressive structures — within myself and in the world.
Results - What Qualifies Me?
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Produced, marketed and launched a feature film with 10,000 online viewers and a theatrical run. Raised over £100,000 in crowd-funding to produce the film.
Consulted on five successful crowd-funding campaigns, raising over £42,000.
Led communications for the successful launch of the TreeSisters ‘Million Trees’ campaign. We raised $100,000, grew an audience of 100,000 people and inspired the planting of a million trees. (TreeSisters is just about to reach 10 million trees!).
Helped to launch, design and host over thirty live online courses, earning over £100,000 and impacting 1000s of people.
Grew engaged social media audiences for films, creative projects and movements of over 300,000 people.
Helped clients to envision, design, and successfully launch over fifty new websites, books, campaigns and online programmes.
Created and hosted a podcast with over two hundred episodes and 400,000 downloads.
Designed over fifty marketing, social media and business plans which have helped clients to: ~ double their audiences within six months ~ double their income within a year ~ surpass their attendee goal with online courses ~ fill client schedules within six months ~ sell their first high-end packages ~ double attendance at their events ~ design and launch their first online courses ~ fill signature online programmes
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BA English and French, Sheffield University
BSchool with Marie Forleo
Money Bootcamp with Denise Duffield Thomas
Training in lead magnets, webinars, online courses and automation & scaling with Melissa Guller from Wit and Wire.
Curriculum Lab with Joanna Lindenbaum
Shakti Dharma Training with Chameli Gad at The Awakening Women Institute
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300 hours Yoga Teacher Training, 8 Limbs Yoga Studio, Seattle.
Prenatal and Pregnancy Yoga Training, 8 Limbs Yoga Studio, Seattle.
Five years Buddhist study with the Triratna community in Sheffield and Seattle
Holistic Massage One Year Training with Massage Training Institute, Sheffield
Women's Temple Training and multiple goddess sadhanas and retreats over a decade with Chameli Gad at The Awakening Women Institute
Initiation, women's empowerment year long training with Jewels Wingfield
The Cauldron of Pearls, women's circle facilitator training with Jewels Wingfield
The Garden Of Love relationship and intimacy year-long training with Jewels Wingfield
The Menstruality Leadership Programme with Red school
The Menstruality Medicine Circle Training with Red School
Ceremony year-long programme - indigenous wisdom for changemakers with Asha Frost
Sacred Depths Transformational Practitioner nine-month Coach Training with Joanna Lindenbaum
Advanced Depth Coaching and Facilitator Training with Johanna Lindenbaum (currently in progress)
Sensuous Knowledge: Black Feminism for Everyone with Minna Salami
Giving back
I tithe 10% of the profits from my courses to a phenomenal organisation called the City of Joy, a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This region is plagued by an ongoing war for the areas of vast mineral resources, many of which are used in our mobile phones and computers - we are inextricably connected to this war. Sexual violence is rife and advocates on the ground estimate that over half a million women and girls have been raped since the conflict began in 1996.
City of Joy was conceived in response to this crisis.
Owned and has run by Congolese staff, since opening its doors in 2011, 2322 women have graduated from the City of Joy, healed themselves, been nurtured, learned new skills, empowered themselves and released massive trauma and horrific memories.
Watch a Ted Talk by City of Joy founder, Christine Schuler Deschryver: The 5 tenets of turning pain into power
“They wanted a place to live in community so that they could heal. In essence, they wanted to turn their pain to power. And so, the City of Joy was born.”
- City of Joy website.