Welcome! What are we doing here?

I’d like to start here by saying hello and thank you in advance for allowing your curiosity or (if you’re here because you know me so feel like you should be) your loyalty to bring you here.

On paper I’m pretty accomplished. A 2 x exited Founder with 2 beautiful children, a home I own and a growing net worth, however, I died a little inside writing all of that and this is why we’re here.

Many people, predominantly women but not necessarily just women, struggle with imposter syndrome. We inherit shame, we fear looking like we have an ego or are ‘above ourselves’, we diminish and belittle ourselves on a daily basis without even realising it and we get frustrated when we’re not taken seriously or given a seat at the table.

There are of course outside factors that makes the above mentioned list harder to battle but there’s a lot we can do ourselves to take up more space and this is a journey I’ve been trundling along over the last few years.

So why this? Why now? What’s changed?

Firstly I’ve recently sold a business (more on that in another post) that was consuming the majority of my time so I finally have some headspace and bandwidth to plunge much deeper into all of this than I could before.

Secondly, I’m so tired of seeing incredibly talented, smart and brilliant people making themselves smaller and getting in their own way whether intentional or not.

Finally, for the last year I have been travelling all over the world on a family gap year (also more on that to come) and I’ve been fortunate enough to meet some of the most amazing people who are unapologetically themselves and not afraid to shout about why they’re great. It’s been eye opening, refreshing and has very much showed me that I have a long way to go but that I most definitely want to get there.

So here I will be sharing my journey, sharing tips and tricks I come across to encourage you to take up more space and to stop diminishing yourself either accidentally or on purpose.

So let me try this again:

I’m Nikki. An accomplished, 2 x exited Founder with 2 beautiful children, a home I own and a growing net worth I’ve worked hard for.

Yeah, that felt pretty uncomfortable but we’ll get there…

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