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If you have read ‘WHO AM I’ you’ll know by now that I have lived through some pretty dark times.

If you want to check out how I turned my mental health – and life – around despite a total breakdown, that’s blogs #1-4.

Or, for a pick and mix of my entrepeneurial activities start with any post from #5 onwards.

Whichever posts you choose, I promise you raw, unpolished, and honest text documenting my personal and professional growth.

Perhaps you’ll think I am too candid, but it is the only way I know how to be …

  • #35 Keeping expansion on-brand

    Creating a new company means your starting point is zero brand or culture … so you create them! This is pretty simple as the founders; you work out your values and goals, then align the company’s brand to them. However, as you expand, how do you keep the brand on-track and not end up forfeiting…

  • #34 When to quit?

    Earlier this week I travelled to Newcastle for the kick-off of Natwest’s Accelerator programme for entrepreneurs. Having recently won a place on the 6-month programme I was excited to get started … then I proceeded to quit after just 1.5 hours! Why?! I changed my mind. This blog post explores why I made that decision,…

  • #33 Carew Dental X The Social Co.

    Choosing a new social media agency after being burned by our previous experiences … We’re in the process of major growth at Carew Dental and this brings about a new phenomenon: actual diary space instead of 12 week waiting lists! So, it’s time to broaden our reach and recruit new patients: cue social media advertising,…

  • #32 Returning to top form

    From feeling a little low to returning to top form in just a few days!  In my post earlier this week, I described how I was feeling off kilter … It was cathartic sharing how I was feeling, but putting my mood in the spotlight also forced me to do something about it: if I…

  • #31 Creating an image library

    Over the past year the Carew Dental team has been capturing photographs and videos for social media and marketing, but when I looked into how we store these images I found extreme short-term thinking in place. All the clinical photographs are correctly uploaded to patient records, but the videos and non-clinical stuff is just filed…

  • #30 Hey! Just checking in

    Done the classic, pledged to write my blog, started with gusto and tailed off. Then – albeit it sporadically – I kept it going before fully falling off the waggon.  So what went wrong? Clearly my diary time-blocking has also fallen by the wayside!! Honestly? After all my blogging is candid, I’ve been struggling a…