I love words beginning with C.
Collaboration. Connection. Conversations. Bloody love it. These last two weeks have been bonkers brilliant. I’ve been in the right rooms with brilliant people. I’ve had calls from clients going through stuff and been able to give them the right people to talk to because of the collaborations I have. I’ve been able to bring brilliant women into my rooms. I’ve been supported by women stepping into help when I couldn’t make a workshop.
The rooms you are in, the people you are with are so blinking important.
You’ve probably heard the Jim Rohn quote: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
It’s not just a catchy line it’s backed by decades of behavioural science on peer influence and social contagion. And lived in experience.
Who you surround yourself with doesn’t just shape your mood.
It shapes your mindset.
Your habits.
Your energy.
Your results.
And yet… most of us don’t review our circle often enough. We stay loyal to rooms we’ve outgrown. We shrink to fit tables that drain us. We keep showing up where we’re tolerated, not elevated because stepping away feels too risky.
The wrong rooms will cost you more than your time. They’ll cost you your fire, your energy and your potential. Being choosy about the rooms you go in has been one of my biggest revelations in this last year.
When you finally sit at a table where you can exhale, where you’re heard instead of managed, challenged instead of judged, celebrated instead of compared everything shifts.
Where people help, promote, create instead of gate-keep, it’s a blinking game changer.
So I’ve been building something. Quietly. And I don’t do much quietly.
A different kind of room.
Not a mastermind. Definitely not a hustle cult. A space.
A space where women who are not done yet can reignite and rise on their terms.
Because collaboration is a super power. It’s the cape. Connection isn’t a nice to have and the right conversations are blink stinking everything.
No-one gets to their next level alone. And this week has reminded me this on steroids.
(Picture of me all uniformed up to walk into the right room and ellevate women in one of the best women in business programmes I’ve designed. Ever. And it was in Madrid. So winning).
