October 12th - November 20th 2026
Discover how cyclical living can help you to find your flow, lead with courage and create a thriving business
A live, online course with Sophie Jane Hardy, business coach & strategist, and host of the Menstruality Podcast
The process of creating and growing a successful business moves in cycles, and so do you.
Maybe that’s why so much of the traditional business advice about showing up every day on social media, being bold and fierce (even when you feel shy and vulnerable) and pushing yourself to the edge of your limits doesn’t sit right with you.
This course maps out a different path to sustainable, impactful business success, and it’s one that you already know in your blood and bones.
It’s alive in the moon orbiting in the night sky, in the trees when they shed their autumn leaves, in the ebb and flow of the ocean tide. It’s alive inside your menstrual cycle and menopause process. It’s a living body of intelligence that animates everything on this beautiful planet.
Together we’ll unearth this and apply it to your business to help you create sustainable impact and income. We’ll explore how to live, work and relate to the world rhythmically – following the ancient, timeless cycles and flows that are 100% alive in your body. This is less about effort, and more about resting back into an intuitive wisdom you’ve known all along…
“The world doesn’t need any more burned out visionaries. It needs well rested revolutionaries who move at the speed of wisdom”.
- Octavia Raheem
Free introductory workshop
How Cyclical Living can Help You to Create a Thriving Business
Monday September 28th at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm UK
or
Tuesday 29th September at 9am London / 7pm Sydney
What people are saying…
"This program is exactly what I needed. I feel like I'm syncing up with the song of my soul and how it wants to be expressed. It is so different than what I "thought" I should be doing and truly liberating to discover my authenticity versus what I've been imposing on myself unknowingly."
~ Michelle Dinu, Energy Healer
"I can't believe how much I have needed this wisdom. My relationship with my cycle has become like a pair of supportive hands lifting me up. I now don't feel so alone running my business, I have a partner to listen to, to bounce ideas off, and it's my cycle! Amazing!"
~ Libby Chow, Video Producer & Photographer
"This work has given me my backbone. I'm getting more psychotherapy clients and filling my groups with ease. I would recommend the course to anyone starting or running their business, or even if you are only just planting the seed - Sophie will help you blossom, bloom and thrive."
~ Hayley Barker Smith, Psychotherapist & Breathwork Facilitator
"I'm much more aware of the nuances of my cycle now and I got some great, business planning insights - including business practices that I can do during different phases. Autumn is best for editing and filtering, winter for introspecting, spring for building content and summer to be out and about!"
~ Sakshi Kalra, Systemic Therapist
Cyclical Business is for you if…
You're a teacher, healer, therapist, coach or creative who is looking to run your business in a more sustainable, impactful, fruitful way.
You'd love to be able to follow your own natural rhythms in your worklife, instead of hustling, pushing through and feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list.
You'd appreciate support to move through the imposter syndrome, fear of visibility and self doubt that hold you back, so you can do the life-affirming work you're here to do.
You long to understand how to grow your business in a way that feels aligned with your values, rather than feeling pushy or salesy.
You'd like to understand how to align your work to the four phases of your menstrual cycle (or the lunar cycle) so that you can feel more energised, creative and confident.
There are three core ways that cycle awareness can help you to create a thriving business…
ONE: Overwhelm → Sustainable Flow
Cycle awareness can help you to:
Manage your energy so you can thrive in your business without burning out.
Create 'riverbanks' for your creative flow, so you can prioritise effectively and make wise choices about your next best steps.
Set up tailor-made workflows and systems that alleviate tech and admin overwhelm.
TWO: Self Doubt → Radical Trust
When you connect to cyclical intelligence, you enhance your natural capacity to lead with courage in your business, so that you can:
Stop self doubt and imposter syndrome from derailing you by getting your "inner critic" on your side.
Create a ground of safety and confidence, so you can step up and be more visible, without feeling over-exposed.
Cultivate your own unique way of working and leading, so you can stop comparing yourself to others, and stay in your own lane.
THREE: Playing Small → Aligned Expansion
As you get to know, befriend and become grounded in your own rhythm and flow you become more skillful and confident at:
Communicating the power of your work to new people, in a way that harnesses your natural gifts and ways of connecting.
Marketing your work in gentle, heart-centred, trauma-informed ways that align with your values.
Clarifying and packaging your offers, setting your prices and creating sales plans that harness your natural gifts and talents.
“So gather close the wisdom in your bones.
Honor the fire in your belly…
… Bow before your holy body. Listen to its voice.
Remember the language you were born knowing.
Remember how the body knows.”
- Jeanette Leblanc
Hi, I’m Sophie,
Thank you for being here - it would be an honour to get to know you and your work, and help you find your way to weave your cyclical intelligence in your business.
I know that the three shifts I describe above are possible because I’ve made them myself, and have had the privilege of working with hundreds of purpose-led business leaders, like you, to create more sustainable, impactful and abundant businesses too.
Over the past two decades I've been a Yoga teacher, an independent filmmaker, a women’s network founder, a not-for-profit communication director, a social media strategist, a podcast host and a cycle-inspired business coach (although one of the women I work with recently called me her ‘Creative Midwife’ and I like that title more!). Along the way I've learned how to make humble resources go a long way, and to create big results, without burning out.
This Cyclical Business course draws on a body of work that I’ve been developing for the past decade, focused on applying the living wisdom of the natural world to our lives as purpose-led, creative entrepreneurs. My aim is to offer you all the support, inspiration, and tools you need to create a thriving business that serves your vision, your community, and most of all, you.
“Sophie served as the highly creative and intuitive Director of Communications for TreeSisters.org for three years.
Sophie grew our social media audience to 230,000 people. Industry experts have acknowledged the success of Sophie’s campaigns, including our $90,000 crowd-funding campaign and our Million Trees campaign which helped us plant a million trees a year.
She was a jewel in our crown, an irreplaceable gift who has a huge amount of essential knowledge and experience to share.”
Clare Dubois, Founder, TreeSisters.org
“Sophie has been instrumental in growing the reach of Red School’s work, and helping us to expand our impact. She created and hosts our Menstruality podcast, which has nearly 500,000 downloads.
She also has 15 years of menstrual cycle awareness under her belt, and a true passion for helping people to create and grow cycle-aware businesses that are fully aligned with the vision, heart and soul of their work. If you'd like to learn how to bring the power of your cycle to your business, we can’t recommend Sophie highly enough.”
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer,
Co-founders of Red School
Welcome to Cyclical Business...
Your step-by-step pathway (and supportive community) to embody the wisdom of nature’s seasons and cycles to create a sustainable, fruitful, impactful business.
What Your Cyclical Business includes:
🌻Five live online sessions
Each with a guided journey to unearth your cyclical intelligence and apply it to your current business challenges. There are two opportunities to join the live calls, to suit your timezone, they happen on Mondays at 6.30-8pm UK time OR Tuesdays at 9am-10.30am UK time.
🪴Cyclical Business Workbook
Your companion to the journey, with journal prompts, the map of the inner seasons and 12 x menstrual / lunar cycle tracking charts.
💫Lifetime access to the course recordings
All the session recordings gathered on an easy-to-navigate course website.
🌺Community
You'll be invited to join our Circle community platform for discussion, connection, trouble-shooting your business challenges and brainstorming around your new ideas and next steps.
Your Bonuses:
BONUS ONE
Workshop: Create Your Cyclical Business Plan
Live call on Monday 16th November at 6.30-8pm UK time OR Tuesday 17th November at 9am-10.30am UK time.
In this 1.5 hour bonus, live online session, we'll harvest your learnings, clarify your areas of focus for the coming months, and map out your sustainable workflow, guided by your unique inner seasons.
BONUS TWO
Training: How to Grow Your Cyclical Business Through Ethical Marketing
This two-hour recorded workshop explores a heart-centred, trauma-informed approach to growing your audience, and expanding your income and impact, in a way that works with your creative flow, and aligns with your values and vision.
BONUS THREE
Peer Pods
You'll be invited to create focused working groups, for specific topics and needs – for example, motherhood and business, perimenopause, menopause, running a business with health challenges – or any other topic you'd like.
"The core challenge I was facing in my business was how to get and attract clients. I experienced crippling resistance (fear) to promoting myself.
I also wrestled with how to talk about my work in a way that's aligned with me and my unique nature. On the course I discovered that my calling comes with an inbuilt, natural authority.
This insight felt like a whole-body experience in its profundity and impact on me. It's giving me permission I dared not give myself before."
~ Sunshine Kamaloni, Racial Diversity Consultant
"I've gained confidence in my capacity to shine in every season using the various qualities and tools shared.
I also have more structure, focus, and awareness, eg: I'm a visionary and this manifests in different ways according to the seasons.
I have a structure that allows me to rest on solid ground no matter what I am doing, I can trust the changing dynamics of my flow."
~ Lisa Sutherland, Massage Therapist
The Curriculum
Week One – Introduction: Why Nature's Seasons and Cycles are Your Best Business Coach
Live call: Monday 12th October at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR
Tuesday 13th October at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Explore how the creative intelligence within nature's seasons and cycles can initiate you into a fuller expression of courageous, confidence leadership in your work.
Understand the three evolutionary pathways of a purpose-led entrepreneur (and clarify which is your key focus area at this stage of your business).
Discover why embodying the wisdom of the four phases of the creative process revolutionises how you live, work and lead.
Week Two – Winter: Root and Vision
Live call: Monday 19th October at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR
Tuesday 20th October at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Explore how the wisdom of winter can awaken the powers of self acceptance, renewal, and alignment in your business.
Understand how resting in the menstrual - or dark moon - phase helps you to create more sustainable impact and income (and how to actually make time for rest as a business leader).
Clarify how you can recognise and yield to the winter phase of the creative process to renew, vision, and connect to the soul of your business.
Week Three – Spring: Blossom and Experiment
Live call: Monday 26th October at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR Tuesday 27th October at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Explore how the budding energy of spring can awaken the powers of clarity, innocence and play in your business.
Understand how moving tenderly in the pre-ovulation - or waxing moon - phase helps you to build strong foundations for success (and clarify what success means to you).
Learn how to recognise and embrace the early spring phase of the creative process in business, to experiment, build creative riverbanks and clarify your direction.
Week Four – Summer: Bloom and Shine
Live call: Monday 3rd November at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR Tuesday 4th November at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Explore how the fecundity and abundance of summer can awaken the powers of action, pleasure, magnetism in your business.
Understand how allowing yourself to shine in the ovulation - or full moon - phase helps you to create connections, share your gifts and make real progress towards your goals.
Learn how to recognise and hold the charge of the summer phase of the creative process in business, so you can sustain your creativity, be well-resourced and have a the impact you long for.
Week Five – Autumn: Harvest and Compost
Live call: Monday 9th November at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR Tuesday 4th November at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Explore how the introspective, soulful energy of autumn can awaken the powers of boundaries, discernment, and courage in your business.
Understand how embracing your truth-telling capacity in the premenstrual - or waning moon - phase helps you to bring more intuition, clarity and boldness to your business leadership.
Learn how to recognise and navigate the challenge of the autumn phase of the creative process in business, so you can know what is ready to be released to stay fully aligned.
BONUS Module Six – Your Cyclical Business Planning Workshop
Live call: Monday 16th November at 1.30pm New York / 6.30pm London OR Tuesday 17th November at 9am London / 7pm Sydney (90 minutes)
Clarify how to organise your workflow in alignment with your cyclical wisdom so you can have more energy, creativity and ease.
Understand the season of business you're currently in and clarify how to harness the gifts and navigate the challenges of this season, so you can make meaningful progress, with more self-compassion and confidence.
Recognise your most important evolutionary pathway, and how you can tend to it in each phase of the menstrual - or lunar - cycle to become the leader your business needs you to be.
"The course helped me learn some very specific things about what work aligns best with what inner season, most importantly though I really discovered the power of giving space dreaming and visioning for the business during my bleed.
Sophie is warm hearted, generous and very experienced - I was constantly touched by her wisdom magic. I would recommend the programme to any founder wanting to understand their own inbuilt productivity map."
~ Louisa Michel, founder of Brighton Lace
"This work has helped me to trust my energy, and to flow with the different menstrual phases to support periods of creativity and rest in my life. It's a precious resource I know I can keep coming back to. I feel more attuned with the cycles of nature and applying cyclical wisdom to my business makes so much sense. It would be destructive to live in a constant summer, so why do we do it in business? That was a big realisation for me!"
~ Rosanna Ellis, Palliative Care Nurse and Co-founder of Essence Medicine
Register Here
Early Bird Price
Available until midnight on Thursday 1st October
Pay in full: £249
Pay in two: 2 x £125
(regular price £295 / 2 x £150)
Bursary places:
There are a number of full and 50% bursary places available for Cyclical Business, for people from marginalised communities, including; Black, Indigenous or People of Colour, LGBTQ+ folks and people living with a disability and/or who are socio-economically disadvantaged. Please write to me here to apply for a bursary place.
This course is non-refundable
Frequently asked questions
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If you are still in the visioning phase and you don't have a business yet, this course can help set you up for success in your upcoming venture. Some of what we explore may be theoretical for you, but it will help you to create great foundations.
You will also be able to bring the experiences you have gained from your previous work life to the programme. -
Yes. If you don't currently have a cycle because you’re on hormonal contraception, you’re pregnant / breast-feeding, have a health condition, or you're post-menopausal, you can work with the lunar cycle in place of the menstrual cycle. (I'll guide you how to do this on the course).
If you are going through menopause or are post-menopause, you will have your own wisdom from this current life phase to bring to your own business. Although we don't cover this topic in the course, many of the course participants are post-menopause and regularly bring their post-menopausal intelligence to the circle, which is deeply enriching for everyone. -
To get the best results from the course, it's a good idea to set aside 2-3 hours a week. The live calls are 1.5 hours long and you’ll receive a recording if you can’t join live. (You can also choose to come to both calls if you’re free and want to spend more time live with me and the community).
You can also choose to take time to connect, share your experience, ask questions and receive support from the community on Circle, or join a 'peer pod', where you’ll meet for an hour each week.
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If you are still trying to decide whether this course is for you, I recommend you watch the introductory webinar (please write to me if you’d like me to send you the recording), so you can do the journalling questions, take the guided journey, and listen to the cyclical wisdom within you.
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I am not able to offer any refunds for this course.