You don’t need fewer arms. You need to decide what they’re for.
A community for high-achieving women who are done measuring success by how much they can carry.
You have the career. The responsibilities. The people who depend on you. For many of us, that includes children, partners and family alongside everything we carry at work.
Your ability to juggle it all isn’t the problem.
Those eight arms are an asset.
Beyond the Octopus is about using them more intentionally, so you can build a successful career and a life that actually feels like yours.
You became very good at carrying a lot.
At work, you’re capable, dependable and the person people turn to when something needs sorting.
Outside work, there may be children to raise, a relationship to nurture, parents to support, a household to run and a mental list that somehow never seems to end.
And somewhere in amongst all of that is you.
Your ambitions. Your health. Your relationships. Your ideas. The things you want to learn, create, experience and become.
The problem isn’t that you’re incapable of managing it all.
You’re extraordinarily capable.
The problem is that being capable can quietly turn into being responsible for everything.
And success can start to feel suspiciously like having eight arms and discovering that everyone has found something else for you to hold.
Beyond the Octopus is about changing that.
What if success didn’t require you to carry everything?
Beyond the Octopus isn’t about becoming less ambitious, less capable or less successful.
It’s about becoming more intentional about where all that capability goes.
Imagine having a space where you can step away from being the person with all the answers and spend time thinking about you.
Your career. Your family. Your wellbeing. Your relationships. Your ambitions. And yes, the parts of your life that have nothing whatsoever to do with being productive.
A place to ask the questions you don’t always have somewhere to ask.
To learn from other brilliant women navigating the same messy intersection of success, work, family and self.
To get perspective, practical support and access to me every week.
And perhaps most importantly, to stop trying to figure everything out alone.
You don’t need to lose your eight arms.
You need to decide what deserves them.
What you get inside Beyond the Octopus
Weekly live conversations with me
A live session every week where we’ll explore the things that matter when you’re building a successful career and a life you actually want to live.
Ask Me Anything
Bring what’s happening in your real life. A difficult conversation at work. A career decision. Boundaries. Burnout. Confidence. Family pressures. Leadership. That thing you’ve been going round in circles about for three weeks. Ask me.
A community of women who get it
Connect with other high-achieving women navigating careers, families, relationships, ambitions and everything else life throws into the mix. No pretending you’ve got it all sorted required.
Practical tools and fresh perspectives
I’ll share ideas, strategies and tools from my work as a coach, speaker and author to help you make changes you can actually use in your life.
A space that’s about you
Not your job title. Not what your children need. Not what your team needs. Not the next thing on the list. A regular space to think about what you need, want and are becoming.
Think of it as your weekly appointment with yourself, except you don’t have to figure everything out by yourself.
This is for you if…
✓ You’re ambitious, but you’re no longer interested in sacrificing yourself at the altar of success.
✓ You have a career you care about, but you also have a life outside work that matters just as much.
✓ You’re often the capable one. The dependable one. The one people come to. And sometimes you’d quite like somewhere you can go.
✓ You’re juggling work, family, relationships, wellbeing and your own ambitions, and you want to do it on your terms.
✓ You want honest conversations about the things successful women are actually navigating, not another polished version of what our lives are supposed to look like.
✓ You want to grow, personally and professionally, without adding another exhausting thing to your to-do list.
✓ You’d love to be surrounded by smart, interesting women who understand that wanting more from your life doesn’t mean doing more with your life.
Beyond the Octopus is for women who still want to achieve, but want to be much more intentional about what they’re achieving and why.
Become a founding member
Beyond the Octopus is just beginning.
And I’d love the first women through the door to help me shape what it becomes.
As a founding member, you’ll get everything inside the community, including:
- Weekly live sessions with me
- Ask Me Anything conversations
- Practical coaching, tools and perspectives
- Connection with other ambitious women who get it
- A voice in shaping the community as it grows
£19 per month
Your founding member price stays at £19 a month for as long as you remain a member, even if membership prices increase in future.
No long-term commitment. No enormous course you feel guilty about not completing. No need to turn up every week with your life beautifully organised.
Come when you need perspective, support, challenge, connection or simply a room where you don’t have to be the one holding everything.
£19 a month. Cancel anytime.
Founding member pricing is available for a limited launch period.
A final word from me
I created Beyond the Octopus because I know what it feels like to be capable of carrying a lot, and to realise that capability alone is not the same as fulfilment.
This community is for women who still want big things from their careers and their lives, but want to be more deliberate about where their energy goes.
You don’t have to have everything figured out before you join.
You just need to be ready to ask a better question:
What deserves your eight arms now?