The Long Version
If you’re new to me, connected recently or connected a while ago but still don’t really know ‘who’ I am, beneath the surface level social stuff, well … this may just fill in a few gaps if you’re thinking about working or collaborating with me.
I help ADHD Entrepreneurs/Leaders through their late-diagnosis identity crisis, + leverage their brilliance to create impact, income + joy . I’m also a Spokesperson/Advocate for ADHD Women and the Creator of The Brilliance Effect®️
I help them sort through their thoughts after that post-diagnosis identity crisis, and lean into their strength and purpose, build resilience, breakthrough their revenue AND energy plateaus, and create a huge but brain-friendly impact that’s truly aligned to their vision and values.
① My History
I started my career as a Production Design Manager at Ministry of Sound back in the mid 90s, project managing the design and print circulation of c100K magazines each month and the licensing of cover mount CDs. I was also part of the annual music awards project management team, producing and managing the live events at a sold-out Brixton Academy. I was headhunted to Fitch, a global brand agency, managing projects for huge corporate clients and doubled my salary overnight, which was amazing.
With a young baby in tow, I then set up my vintage clothes company, importing from America to sell through eBay and my own website. I set up one of the first funnels using eBay to funnel customers to my own website. I sold this business for a profit in 2007.
In 2009, I fell into a job in creative and broadcast tech recruitment, placing c-level global candidates with clients such as Sony, Avid and Adobe. I mapped out and grew a previously untapped EMEA marketplace from zero to multi six figure turnover and travelled to the US and Europe to manage senior level client relationships.
In between all of this I studied various healing modalities including a BSc Hons Acupuncture, plus my first degree studies in Biological Psychology and Molecular/Cell Biology.
This eclectic mix of sales, creativity and psychology I brought to my brand and design business, which was born out of necessity when I finally burned out in my corporate job. I took the business from humble graphic design services for other online business owners, to a six figure strategy agency, before almost burning out yet again (!) in 2019.
It was at that point I was absolutely certain I was meant for something more, to bring all of that experience together to help create better businesses for other women entrepreneurs.
② My Journey
I want to share some of the ups and downs that have got me to where I am today because I believe that the right coach and mentor will understand, at a deep level, what you are going through.
I have been on a long journey of self-discovery, trying to make sense of my childhood trauma and subsequent events that have happened to me as an adult, ALL of which have stemmed from this overriding feeling of not being good enough. I chose partners, friends and situations that validated how I felt and spent many years deeply unhappy inside.
When I was a kid, some older girls thought my name was ‘Happy Girl’ not Abigail, because I was always happy and smiling. The irony of this, against the clinical depression and sadness I felt for a lot of my life, is not lost on me and is why I’m inspired to call my podcast The Happy Girl Podcast, although might change
More about that another time.
I was raped at 19 by my ‘boyfriend’, my first experience of a true narcissist.
I left my first marriage to my kids' father (another narcissist) because of deep emotional abuse - a pattern that continued even up until recently. He has since transferred that emotional abuse to our daughter, something I am fighting hard to support her with. My second marriage I thought was the ‘one’ but after a period of illness, injury, spinal surgery, depression and burnout (all mine), it was too much for him and I discovered he had feelings for someone else and we separated.
During this time I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and bipolar disorder, and most recently ADHD and dyspraxia.
I'm telling you all this, not as a victim, but as a strong, powerful woman who has navigated many things and survived. This journey has formed part of what I teach today - that we get to discover who we truly are and go for the things we want, BECAUSE of our experiences, not in spite of.
③ Profile, Values + Skills
I’ve been described as quirky and individual, but I prefer the term ‘quiet rebel’. I’m a natural empath and intuitive, combined with being a strategic problem-solver and creative. I spent most of the 90s raving and clubbing, and took way too many drugs for way too long. I’m now 95% sober (I enjoy the odd cocktail!) and LOVING it.
I’m all about the #joyeveryday and surround myself with people, things and experiences that bring me just that. In fact, #joyeveryday is one of the values I teach in my work too. I’m also an INFP introvert which has become SO much clearer since lockdown. I love spending time just at home with my dogs and I’ve become fiercely protective of my own boundaries; I have no time for drama or the online school-playground cliques at all.
My core values, and the core values of my company are:
Integrity
Joy
Resilience
To add to this eclectic mix, I also have a bunch of qualifications:
✦ MSc Applied Positive Psychology + Coaching Psychology
✦ BA (Hons) Acupuncture
✦ Biological Psychology Level 6
✦ Certified/AC Accredited Life Coach
✦ Certified Online Business Consultant
✦ Certified Conscious Energy Practitioner
✦ Certified Timeline Therapy Practitioner
✦ Certified Brand Specialist
I work with brilliant service-based entrepreneurs who are ready to start scaling their business on their terms. They’ve already experienced success but it’s left them feeling as if they’ve created a ‘job’ in their business - they’re exhausted and have hit a huge plateau both with their energy AND revenue.
What’s important to them now is to really dive deep into who they are NOW and what they truly desire - it’s changed over the years and they want to rediscover the alignment with a purpose and mission that lights them up.
④ How Can You Work With Me?
For ADHD entrepreneurs, I focus on these three things:
✦ A journey of self-discovery into your values, vision + purpose, realigning them with who you are now + the desires you have for your life. This includes working with the subconscious to release limiting beliefs + clearing old patterns and ‘stuckness’ from your energetic system.
✦Unfluffing your message and creatively redesigning your business dynamic so that it works for you + your goals. We’ll dive deep into your clients, niche + offers to make sure they are working for you, reimagining all the parts so they fit together in a clear, growth focused, yet sustainable way.
✦Building out a simple-to-implement organic sales strategy to break through that revenue plateau + get you the growth you need, leaving your business running like a dream.
For Leaders + Teams:
✦Help you create an ADHD friendly, positive, inspiring workplace, with authentic leaders and meaningful work
✦ Combine brand strategy with positive psychology to create a unique consultative approach to building an internal company culture, so you can hire and retain the best people
✦Teach you and your team how to develop resilience, set + hit meaningful goals + make positive decisions
✦Help you create an environment that supports + nurtures talent, growth + wellbeing
✦ Help you and your team identify and lean into your Unique Brilliance and Energetic potential in a way that supports personal and business growth.
If you’ve read this far, then you are definitely committed to stepping into your next level of aligned success - the reason it’s so long is that if it resonates, you’ll keep reading as you’re one of ‘my’ people.
I can support your journey in the following ways:
✦ WORKSHOPS + TEAM TRAINING
Delivered via Zoom, and designed specifically for you/your business around topics such as resilience building, goal setting, values, strengths, sales, communication, mindset.
✦ GROUP PROGRAMME
The Brilliance Effect Collective is for ADHD entrepreneurs ready to build a thriving, brain-friendly, profitable business that brings them joy every day.
✦ ONE-TO-ONE
I have limited spots each month for new coaching + mentoring clients, but if you’d like my methods and creative brain in your business/life, then please get in touch.
✦ VIP INTENSIVE DAYS
I also run a limited amount of intensive one-one days. The perfect kickstart to your business + personal growth, + you’ll leave with an aligned plan to move you forward.
