A/W 2025 Beauty Recs, Productivity and Plans

Because it got real cold and grey real quick...

When Work Feels Like Crack (and Other Confessions)

The mind is quite a funny thing isn’t it? Even funnier is the powerful control it has on the body. Over the last few weeks I’ve not been inspired to write one big thought because the launch of a new venture has made my mind anxious, scattered and

I finally launched my brand and I’m going to share the process every Sunday...

This post is free to read for those logged in... after the member wall I post some actual spreadsheets and docs about how I launched 39BC... I'm exhausted. Everyone has been on this journey with me over the last year as I have been building 39BC …alongside writing

Part 3: Some Millennial Spaces That Created Cultural Collisions

Part 2: Generational Rebellion: How Subcultures are Born

This is the third in a five-part series I’m writing about how subcultures are built. Read the rest here. This week, we dive into the socio and cultural conditions required for a subculture to be born. From September, Niamh Donoghue and I are hosting The Worldbuilder Show on The

Part 1. Advice to Gen-Alpha: How creating a club night will teach you everything you need to know about life, art and business.

This is the first in a five-part series I’m writing about how subcultures are built. Read the rest here. As I continue to build my brand I realise that a huge part of it comes from my lived experience in subcultures — the pirate stations, the club nights, the tiny

New Method 33 | But Take As Much As You Can

This week’s New Method — But Take As Much As You Can — is about rejecting the conditioning that tells women to be satisfied with less. Too often, we’re taught to take only what’s offered, to downplay our worth, and to see ambition as greed. This method flips that

Here is a list of all my fears and anxieties about starting again…

I’ve been feeling crazy anxious lately in a sort of low-level hum that sits underneath everything I do. And I want to understand it. Not brush past it with a motivational quote or bury it under a productivity hack. So I’m writing it out. Confidence isn’t the

The real AI superpower is you...

Last week I gave a talk for Black Ballad called How To Use AI As Your Superpower, and I was blown away by the response. This presentation wasn’t about tips and tricks. It was about asking one powerful question first: 💡 “What do you bring to the table that AI

New Method 32 | Start with 50/50

This is your weekly affirmation to help you build your personal philosophy. Have a great weekend! Take a deep breathe in...and say it with me... We refuse to be the one who is always giving more, and we start from a place of equality until we have accumulated enough

Attention To Detail is Everything.

I know my Brand Building Sprint newsletter series is over but every single day cool stuff happens that I really want to share with you all. So in that spirit, heres a little EOD note. Today was super busy, super productive and I even managed to have a nice lunch