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  1. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    do me a favour, and support your mates business (opens the original)

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    This weekend I’ll be 3 months post-partum, and having spent the year building both a baby and a whole brand new business, I can tell you that it’s no joke. It’s not my first rodeo on both counts, and yet neither get any easier. Whilst I’m only on my second baby, I can tell you I’m a few businesses deep, and within each individual one, I’ve nurtured (to varying degrees of success) countless projects. I’ve learnt enough along the way to rival ChatGPT’s knowledge, but still, I’m here to tell you to

  2. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    your business might not *need* to grow (opens the original)

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    This weekend was officially the 10th anniversary of me playing the self-employed game.It’s a ‘game’ in the sense that sometimes you win, and plenty of times you lose. But there are also minimal rules, no-one really ever explains how to play, when you think you’ve figured it out everything changes, and it’s honestly not always that fun.Sadly, few people explain this to you before you start. If they did, would we still do it? Probably, because the romantic idea of self-employed life will always wi

  3. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    greedy, greedy studios (opens the original)

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    This month marks a decade since I opened my own yoga studio without a real scooby about what the hell it entailed. I wanted a place near to my work with a bunch of different classes that I could choose from under a single membership, and nothing like that existed where I was. So I made it. I don’t run the space like that anymore since Covid did the dirty on us, and I’ve run my own classes as a purely independent teacher ever since. But still, I find myself engaging closely with the conversation

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