Sales maths and a creative spirit.

I’m a shrewd operator with a creative spirit. I love a spreadsheet, a problem that looks stuck and a plan that sets me free. These are the rules I run my businesses by, and why they let me run them from anywhere.

FLIGHT RULES · OPERATOR CLASS
SYSTEMS BUY FREEDOM
It’s sales and maths, but it’s also 100% my creative spirit.

The rules

In my own words
01
Remote by results

I don’t care where you are, as long as the work gets done.

In 2024 I looked around our Soho office and nobody was there. So we ran a test: if client work held for three months, the whole team could work from anywhere. It held. Two years on, clients still call and ask which plane I’m on.

“Clients have never complained. In fact, they call me and they say, where are you today? What plane are you on?”
02
Systems buy freedom

Document it once, so it runs without you.

I started my agency with £2,000 and a team of grads who’d never worked in marketing. So I wrote everything down. Every process, every framework, every structure. That’s the reason we can work from anywhere, and it’s what the B.R.A.I.N.™ is built on.

“I documented every single process and every single framework and every single structure.”
03
Ignite, never fear

Firebelly is named for lighting people up.

An old boss of mine used to light a fire underneath people. I wanted the opposite. Fear makes for bad work. Happy people do the best work, so we build a place where people actually want to do it.

“I wanted to ignite the fire within people, as opposed to leading with fear.”
04
Relationships save you

Be the team clients never have to chase.

We work in digital, but it runs on people. When something goes wrong, a good relationship turns a big problem into “no worries, completely understand”. Nobody’s going to die if it isn’t done today.

“We’re working in digital, right? But the relationships save you.”
05
Know who you are first

AI is generic until it knows your brand.

AI doesn’t work for most brands because nobody has told it who they are, how they sound or how they look. So I taught it everything we know, block by block. That became the B.R.A.I.N.™: the tool I wish had existed.

“I wouldn’t approve AI copy. I’d approve this copy.”
06
Female-founded, for everyone

100% mine, and built for everyone.

My business is 100% owned by me: female-owned, female-founded. That doesn’t mean women only. We’ve got some amazing men on the team. It means the environment is one where everyone is supported.

“We support everyone. Like, these things are important.”

What keeps me going

The bits behind the work

Learning out loud

When I’m learning, I’m in my happiest place. AI, boxing, tennis, the agency. Learning includes failing, and failure is just data collection.

Body first

Training, yoga (I’m a qualified teacher), good food and sleep. Without exercise I just don’t function. It’s what helps me execute.

Trust your instincts

I’ve never run my business from my head. I’ve always run it from my body. When an idea is good, I get goosebumps, and the goosebump radar has never led me wrong.