I’m Laura, your coach and mentor, here to help you find your way with your creative small business.

I support remarkable, creative women develop heart-led small businesses that wholly align with their lives and values.

I’m also a mum of 3 and a busy multi-passionate, so I get how much you’re dealing with and how it can feel like you’re never going to be able to do life your way. I’m here to help you find that simple ease and joy.

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A little bit more about me

How do you work then?

I coach and mentor for 2 days a week, teach for one and sing around that. I spend the rest of the time with my baby. Full disclaimer: I also often and frequently log on and do bits on my business when the kids are in bed. I also have nights with no devices with pals and my husband.

Do you ever feel burned out?

Yes and I have to be really careful as I get so much energy from work - so I have to have careful boundaries and switch off in the evenings.

We go out - what are you eating/ drinking?

Brunch? Flat whites and eggs and avo. Lunch - probably similar or some kind of obscene burger. Afternoon tea is a fave. And favourite drink drink is champagne (I know).

What do you do when you’re not working?

I love my sofa. I also love my garden and growing from seed, listening to audiobooks and reading, baking, Vinted, music music music and being with my 3 kids and husband.

What’s this whole multipassionate thing about?

I don’t believe we should be limited to having to do one thing to earn money (unless we want to!) With that in mind I also teaching secondary school music one day a week (up to A Level), teach the piano, am a professional classical singer, am writing a book of poetry and created the Key Cards.

Dream client?

Someone who is curious, open to being creative, with a sprinkle of “woo” about them (if you know you know), funny, ready to get stuck in, liberal, open to and loves learning, pays on time.

More of the Story

More of the Story

I read Music at Cambridge University, where I was also a choral scholar. My parents are both music teachers, and I knew aged 21 that part of my heart was in Schools. So far, so predictable.

But there was more to it than that.

I knew I wanted to sing professionally too. In my heart I knew I was good enough, and this hunch was being supported by enquiries for singing gigs coming in during my final year.

One lunchtime I was in the Vestry sorting out Choir Folders (yes I was co-Choir Librarian, yes I love a good sort and a system - #SpreadsheetsForLife) and an extremely impressive and influential conductor walked in. He asked me what my plans were post Cambridge. Upon telling him that I was to commence a PGCE he said:

"well that's a shame. You could have made it as a singer - but I can't imagine how you'd be able to do both."

Guess what? I COULD. And ever since then I've been experimenting with what might be possible.

My professional pathway to today…

  • Cambridge University MA Music and Choral Scholar

  • PGCE UCL (Music)

  • Sing professionally (still do) on amazing soundtracks (hello Wonder Woman, Avengers, Aladdin, Harry Potter, The Grinch...) and in cold churches and around the world with inspirational choirs (Monteverdi Choir, Tenebrae, Polyphony, Eric Whitacre Singers...)

  • NQT in an amazing School

  • Become Head of Year 8 and realise how much I adore helping my students and their parents; become Head of Years 10 and 11 (GCSE years) - have amazing professional development and lots of coaching training along the way, including coaching my team of inspirational colleagues

  • Become a Director of Music - manage a huge team of musicians - explore my own creativity, limiting beliefs, learn more about coaching

  • Mentor and coach multiple trainee teachers

  • Become a Mum - world briefly falls off its axis

  • Sing in a Prom one month to the day after giving birth - interesting choice.

  • Travel to Pisa two months into Motherhood with baby and husband, singing life-enhancingly wonderful music

  • Train as a hypnobirthing and antenatal coach during Maternity Leave Two

  • Get a job 2.5 days a week in an incredible school in the same role I had when I qualified - realise how much I have missed being in the classroom rather than being in meetings using Management Speak

  • Over the next year build a highly successful, profitable hypnobirthing business but realise I prefer the coaching (and cuddling babies) to the science of birth

  • Start Power of Mum coaching, podcast and Supper Club events where I am one of the main speakers alongside fabulous women like Steph Douglas (Don’t Buy her Flowers)

  • Attract amazing guests to podcast like Suzy Reading, Megan Rossiter, Steph Douglas…

  • Coaching business starts to fly - sell-out group course (1000 Tiny Steps, it was epic), waiting list for 121 clients, people asking to feature on my podcast

  • Realise I am close to burnout - no-one is suffering but I am spinning too many plates with a 3 and 4 year old at home.

  • Write lots of poetry and run creativity workshops because I crave that human (adult) connection

  • do further training as a coach

  • Get back into the garden and let the soil and the toil help me work out a new balance. Research lunar cycles initially as a gardener but then as a woman.

  • Kids get older. I get a new job in a school.

  • I get pregnant with my third child after having had several miscarriages

  • My third child is the biggest blessing and gives me pause for thought - I realise I want to have longer-lasting connections with clients and Simplicity Unlocked is born.

Today I support remarkable, creative women develop heart-led small businesses that wholly align with their lives and values. I do this through group coaching, 121, courses (coming soon) and The Key Cards. I also sing, write, teach and mother. I am so lucky.

Adele: Artist, Designer, Tech and Mother

“I came away with a life that felt more whole because you helped me fit in all the parts of me that I was previously neglecting in the busy-ness of trying to do too much that I didn't really enjoy.”

Here’s what I think about you, and how I can help.

This is what you came for (who else is singing now…)

I help my clients live lives that are about more than just work, but I help them realise that work is damn good fun too when the work comes from following their interests and seeing where it takes them. I don't ask them to leave their jobs and risk it all on a hunch. I ask them to be playful, to be curious, to experiment (much in the same way that creatives do), and to see where that takes them.

My clients are interested in working in a way that is energetically sustainable, are curious about or are already actively tracking their energy and cycle, and live gently (or wish they could - they can!) in this way.

I work with women who are ready to be honest with themselves, who are ready to explore what more there is in life for them, who are ready to scratch the itch, who are ready to be curious and open and honest with themselves about what is out there to bring profound fulfilment.  

Women who are proud to have strings to their bow - who don't want to be defined by their work, but who want their work to be pretty bloody wonderful. People who are excited about going "and what else is there?" People who believe in doing things to a really damn high standard. I'm not talking about that woolly "make a lot of noise about something but never really pull on the thread because…"

You're ready to accept that you might fail at something - and that's ok, because you never really fail. You learn lessons that you put into practice for the future.

You're a grown-up, and you need money to put food on the table (or maybe to buy a superyacht - whatever floats your boat #sorrynotsorry) and you want to make sure that you're doing work that is worth it.

You're not afraid to seek out and embody excellence in one area. 

You're a bit embarrassed to say this but you have a hunch that you could even be good at more than one thing in your possibly fifty-year long "career"

You're ready to move beyond the view that we have one job destined for us, and to consider anything else is to be irresponsible. 

You're curious about what else there is. You're excited to explore creativity. Or maybe you think creativity is a fancy word for playing. the thing is, you're creative every day, possibly without even realising it.

You're for me if:

  • - you're interested in working with people who care about real, lasting human connection

  • - you care about your place in the world and the value you give to it (maybe I write the word karma and you nod along)

  • - you advocate for others, because you know that knocking them down doesn't make you shine any brighter (but you suffer with comparisonitis sometimes because - oh hello social media and your delightful ability to make us all feel lesser)

  • - you genuinely care about what happens to the people you work with - you want to know what outcomes they have and you want them to know that they matter