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Why our frictionless lives are making us miserable and how to stop it

Working Hard — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT

We've spent the last decade optimising everything: next-day delivery, one-tap payments, infinite scroll, food at the door in 20 minutes. And yet somehow, most of us feel more scattered, less satisfied, and less capable than ever. I read an article about 'friction-maxxing' in The Cut, and wanted to explore why?

Katherine's article in The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/article/brooding-friction-maxxing-new-years-2026-resolution.html

The catch-up friends bonus episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2t3hom9tw1TYmCalzFO2Si

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Everything I’ve prepped for my baby’s arrival (the spreadsheet)

Grace Beverley — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:03:49 GMT

Hello! I’m back again with another spreadsheet.

I’ve been on maternity leave for three weeks now, and I think if there was an award for the most nesting ever nested, I would be in contention for first place. For some context, I have the delightful combination of ADHD and OCD, which means I permanently need to be organised but also move through this earth as a tornado. So over the years I’ve found lists, systems and preparation are my best friends. Which means that when it comes to baby prep, I’ve gone all in.

I’ve asked every parent friend I have for their advice and lists, and watched pretty much every nesting YouTube video and TikTok under the sun.

I started putting everything in one big baby prep spreadsheet, with the links for what I need in every room, links for what I need to put in every caddy, and a full baby prep to-do list. Over the last few weeks, it’s grown and grown into what might be my proudest piece of work (it’s close between this spreadsheet and the dayflex flares).

And after so many of you have used the recs spreadsheet I popped on here last week, I thought the least I can do is add this one to the list for any other expecting parents!

So, without further ado, you can find the spreadsheet below. I’d reccomend duplicating it for yourself and moving through the tabs in order, following the to-dos and then ticking everything off once it’s ordered and packed.

All you have to do to get the spreadsheet is subscribe for free below and sign into substack, the link will then appear in this article!

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I hope you find it useful! And for anyone not expecting, I’ll be back to normal service next week.

I’ll see you on Tuesday!

I fear I have a lot of ideas

Grace Beverley — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:04:12 GMT

Hello!! And welcome to the first email from the new home of this newsletter!!!

Firstly, thank you SO much for all the love since I became an official Substack girlie. I’m genuinely so excited to have you all here. As you’ll know from last week, I’m a few weeks into maternity leave, and apparently giving me this much time to think was a dangerous decision because I have gone slightly wild with ideas for this newsletter.

I really wanted to make this somewhere you get more from than just one email a week. Somewhere I can keep all the useful things I find, share more of the recommendations I’m constantly forcing on people, build resources you can actually come back to and generally give us a bit more room to play around with things.

Which brings me to the giant recommendations list. I hope you’re all loving it!! What started as me selfishly crowdsourcing enough entertainment to get myself through the newborn bubble has become a slightly ridiculous library of all your favourite films, series, podcasts and books. And I’m absolutely not finished with it. I’ll keep adding to it as I find things and you recommend them, so hopefully it just gets better and better.

I have approximately 400 more ideas for what we can do over here, so I’ll try to pace myself. Otherwise I’m just very happy you’re here x

This week’s podcast was the release of our live episode with Jemma Sbeg, which we recorded back in June (in a skyscraper, on the hottest day of the year 🥵). Here are some of my favourite quotes Jemma mentioned during our conversation that have really stuck with me.

Also, if you haven’t watched the full episode yet, I’ve dropped it below.

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You have to stop thinking that trusting yourself means knowing you’re making the right decision. Because I literally don’t think anyone knows that. You make the best decision you can with the information you have at the time, and sometimes you’ll get it wrong. But the trust bit is actually knowing that if you do get it wrong, you’ll figure it out. Very, very few decisions are this one irreversible fork in the road that determines the entire rest of your life.

And I also don’t think you need to suddenly stop asking your friends for advice. I ask people what they think all the time. But there’s a massive difference between getting someone’s perspective and basically asking them to make the decision for you. Take everyone’s opinions, sit with them, and then actually ask yourself, okay, but what do I think? What would I choose if no one else was going to know about it? Because you only really learn to trust your judgement by making decisions and seeing what happens.

And also, you’re 20!! Of course you don’t have enough life experience to know exactly what you’re doing yet, because this is the bit where you get the life experience. You’re going to make choices you’d make differently five years later, but that doesn’t mean you messed up your life. It means you know something now that you didn’t know then. I think you have to give yourself permission to make the best choice available to you now, rather than trying to somehow make decisions with the wisdom of a future version of you that doesn’t exist yet.

Next week on the pod, we’re doing a deep dive on why feeling uncomfortable is actually good for you.

I hope you have a wonderful week & I’ll see you very soon,

The lies we all tell ourselves about our careers with Jemma Sbeg (LIVE)

Working Hard — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Our first ever live podcast happened this summer, so I thought I'd share it with you! Thanks so much to Jemma Sbeg for joining me and 22 Bishopsgate for hosting us.

If you haven't heard of Jemma Sbeg, she is the host of The Psychology of Your 20s, one of the most listened-to podcasts in the world. It recently ranked in the global top 20, and was launched on Netflix last year. But what makes Jemma even more interesting is the story of how she got there: she started the podcast as a side project whilst working an 80-plus hour week in a corporate job. She built it episode by episode, using her background in psychology to break down the things that make ambitious people feel stuck, anxious, and like they're falling behind.

I really hope you love our chat! And if you want to come to a live pod in the future, let me know!

JEMMA SBEG

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The 5 systems that changed my productivity & my life forever

Working Hard — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Today I thought we could go through the five systems that have had the biggest impact on both my productivity and my happiness.

And I want to say both of those things deliberately, because I think we talk about productivity like it's separate from how we feel. In my experience, it really isn't. When the systems are right, you feel better. And the whole reason I like productivity is that it leaves more space for not working, and the fun bits!!

The other episodes I mentioned:

- The calendar bonus episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YUDprqI5UKB2KHn379C8U

- The goal setting episode: https://youtu.be/kHbdjlyMrVQ?si=HjDrv4Lwadd_JtUb

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I've had one big realisation

Working Hard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:59:18 GMT

This edition of Working Hard was sent on 14/06/26

Hello!! Hope you’re having a good start to your week.

We’ve spent the weekend starting the baby prep, setting up the nursery, going pram shopping, and generally trying to convince ourselves we know what we’re doing. I also discovered that buying a pram is a bit like buying a car. You think you’ll walk in, point at one and leave. Three hours later you’re discussing suspension, wheel size and whether it can be folded one-handed. Who knew.

I’m also trying to make the most of these last few weekends before life looks very different. We started a little Sunday cinema tradition a few months ago, and it’s become one of my favourite things. We went to see the new live action Moana this weekend and it was so good. There’s something really nice about putting your phone away for a couple of hours and eating an unreasonable amount of pick & mix.

Speaking of things I’ve been slightly obsessing over... this week’s podcast started because one TikTok completely sent me down a research rabbit hole. I think most of us assume the people who are brilliant to talk to are just naturally funny, charismatic or always know exactly what to say. Turns out that’s not actually what makes someone memorable.

After watching a TED Talk, reading way too much psychology research and chatting to speech coach Susie Ashfield, I realised the people everyone loves talking to usually aren’t trying to be the most interesting person in the room, they’re just much better at making everyone else feel interesting. It’s one of my favourite episodes we’ve done in a while and I think you’ll really enjoy it.

These episodes usually start as a brain dump in my Notes app, and this was mine while I was researching what actually makes someone great to talk to.

If you haven’t watched the full episode yet, I’ve dropped it below.

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I actually always come back to something Shade Zahrai said when she came on the podcast, which is that we’ve all been taught to wait until we feel confident. We think, once I’m confident enough, then I’ll do the thing. But she was saying confidence is actually the result, not the starting point. The thing you need first is self trust. Just trusting that whatever happens, you’ll figure it out.

And weirdly, I think that’s exactly what you’ve been building without even realising it. Because self trust isn’t waking up every morning thinking you’re amazing. It’s proving to yourself, over and over again, that you’ll show up. That you’ll feel the difficult emotion instead of running from it. That you’ll go to the gym because you said you would. That you’ll volunteer because that’s the kind of person you want to be. That even if you have a bad day, you’re not going to abandon yourself.

So if I could add one thing, it actually wouldn’t be another habit.

A while back I did a video on habit theory and it kind of took on a life of its own, loads of you messaged me about it and it’s still one of the most popular videos I’ve ever done. So when I heard that the expert I spoke to in that video was finally coming to the UK, I knew I needed to make a recording happen…

I hope you have a wonderful week & I’ll see you very soon,

You're thinking about habits all wrong

Working Hard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:54:57 GMT

This edition of Working Hard was originally sent on 21/07/26

Hello!! Hope you’re having a good start to your week.

Firstly, I’d like to formally announce that at the weekend I won my local pub quiz. And yes, I’ll be taking congratulations for the foreseeable future.

We also had the loveliest baby shower at the TALA office. There are currently five of us all expecting babies; Tiny TALA is going to have quite the next generation.

Can I also just say... thank you to whoever turned the thermostat down this week. I don’t think I’ve ever been so grateful for grey skies. Being heavily pregnant during that heatwave really made me appreciate that classic British summer weather isn’t always something to complain about.

Speaking of things that completely changed how I think, this week’s podcast is with Nir Eyal, and it’s all about why we self-sabotage our habits. I think we often assume people who stick to good habits just have more discipline than everyone else, but that’s really not what the research says.

Anyway, hope you all have a great week!

In the episode with Nir, he tells the fascinating story of Curt Richter’s famous experiment on hope, and I genuinely haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

He wanted to see how long rats could swim before they gave up. In the first part of the experiment, the rats survived for around 15 minutes before giving up.

Then the researchers changed just one thing... can you guess how long they kept swimming after that?

The answer is honestly wild, and it’s such a brilliant reminder that when we believe there’s a chance things can get better, we’re capable of so much more than we think.

THE HOPE EXPERIMENT

If you haven’t watched the full episode yet, I’ve dropped it below.

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Somewhere along the way, you’ve learnt that setting boundaries means you’re being selfish or unkind. I don’t actually think the boundary is the problem; I think the story you’ve been telling yourself about the boundary is.

The other thing is, you’ve made this huge life change by moving away, but your brain is still catching up. It doesn’t just rewrite years of conditioning overnight. Healing is annoyingly slow like that. You set the boundary, you feel guilty, you keep the boundary anyway, and eventually your brain realises, “Oh... I’m actually allowed to do this.” That’s how it gets easier.

And please remember, feeling guilty doesn’t automatically mean you’ve done something wrong. Those are two completely different things. You’re allowed to build a life that feels healthy for you. You’re allowed to make decisions that other people don’t love. This is your life, not anyone else’s, and you’re the one who gets to decide how you live it.

This might sound completely insufferable, but I’m asked a lot online how I found my husband.

And I think the honest answer is that it had a lot less to do with luck or timing, and a lot more to do with some very specific things I had to learn and unlearn about dating, and so I wanted to do an episode on exactly that…

I hope you have a wonderful week & I’ll see you very soon,

WHO has my voodoo doll?

Working Hard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:51:27 GMT

This edition of Working Hard was originally sent on 28/07/26

Hello!! Hope you’re having a good start to your week.

We’re in the final approval stages before I head off on maternity leave and the planning document is currently sitting at 30 pages long. THIRTY. I keep opening it thinking, surely we’re nearly there now, and somehow another section has appeared. So if this email finds me sounding ever so slightly unhinged... that’s why.

To add to the week’s entertainment, I’ve noticed a flower growing out of my brand new skirting board. On one hand, lovely. Very whimsical. Cottagecore. On the other... why is there a flower growing through my house? Where are you coming from?

At this point I have accepted that someone, somewhere, has a voodoo doll of me. If that’s you, could you please brush its hair while you’re at it? Thanks.

Thankfully, my husband came home from work with flowers (the much more welcome kind), and it completely changed my day. It sounds like such a small thing, but it reminded me how much the right person can soften a difficult week without even really trying.

Which is actually what made me want to record this week’s podcast.

I know it might sound slightly insufferable to do an episode called How to Marry Well, but I get asked all the time about dating and finding the person you want to spend your life with. And whilst there’s definitely an element of luck to any meeting, looking back, there were some really important things I had to learn, and just as importantly, unlearn, before I met him.

So this week’s podcast episode is everything I wish someone had told me about dating, choosing a partner and building a relationship that genuinely makes your life easier, not harder.

Anyway, I hope your week has involved fewer mysterious flowers growing through your floor than mine has.

If you loved this week’s episode and want to dive deeper into the psychology behind healthy relationships, these are the books that informed so much of the conversation. They cover everything from attachment styles and relationship science, to why we make the choices we do, and what actually makes partnerships last.

Happy reading 🤍

Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

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I honestly think making friends in your twenties is way harder than anyone prepares you for, especially after a move. At uni you’re surrounded by people your age every day, then suddenly you’re expected to magically have this amazing social life without any of that built in. So firstly, don’t take it as a reflection of you. I think way more people in London feel like this than you’d ever realise.

The thing that changed my perspective was realising you don’t actually need to go looking for friends, you need to go looking for places where you’ll see the same people every week.

That’s how adult friendships happen. Join something you’d genuinely enjoy, become a regular, and don’t be afraid to make the first move. Honestly, most people are just waiting for someone else to suggest the coffee afterwards. It feels awkward for about 30 seconds, but it could genuinely change your life.

If you’re seeing this before the 8th of August, I need you to do one specific exercise. I come back to it every single year, and I don’t say this lightly, but I genuinely think it’s changed my life.

I’ll go into more detail next week…

I hope you have a wonderful week & I’ll see you very soon,

I think I've had one of my best ideas…

Working Hard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:43:42 GMT

This edition of Working Hard was originally sent on 04/08/26

Hello! Hope you’re having a good start to your week.

I’m officially on maternity leave! It was such a crazy feeling logging off last week knowing that, the next time I properly log back in, I’ll be somebody’s mum.

Even though I might have left my ‘proper job’, I’ll still be popping up here because I genuinely love writing this newsletter every week.

I also needed to write it this week because I think I’ve had one of my best ideas, which we can all benefit from.

Essentially, I’ve realised I’m about to enter a phase of life where I’m going to have a lot of hours with my hands occupied... but my brain isn’t. Everyone keeps telling me those first few weeks are basically one very long cycle of feeding, winding, changing, repeat. And I know myself well enough to know that if I don’t have something lined up, I’ll end up doomscrolling for absolutely no reason.

So I want us to build the ultimate recommendation list. I’m talking the documentary that completely changed how you think. The podcast episode you’ve sent to three different people because everyone needs to hear it. The YouTube rabbit hole you accidentally lost your entire Sunday to. The TV series you couldn’t stop watching. The film you think everyone should see at least once.

I’m going to put everything into one big spreadsheet, organise it by category and then share the whole thing. So yes, it’s technically for my postpartum entertainment... but really it’s just an excuse for us to create the world’s best recommendation list together so we’re never scrolling Netflix ever again wondering what to watch.

Please send me everything so we won’t be bored for a single second.

SUBMIT YOUR RECS

Also, this Saturday is 8th August, which is the opening of the Lion’s Gate Portal, a.k.a. the most powerful day of the year for manifesting (bear with me).

As you know if you’ve listened to the previous episodes, every year on 8th August I write a diary entry dated a year in the future, as if I’m already living my dream life. I’ve done it for years now, and it still freaks me out how much of it ends up coming true.

I’ve dropped the ‘how to’ notes I come back to every year below if you want to try!

Also, if you haven’t watched the full episode yet, I’ve dropped it below.

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Omg firstly, I don’t think you’re crazy at all 😂 I actually read this and thought, “this feels so familiar.” I think your brain has decided there must be a perfect answer, so it keeps running little simulations trying to find it.

One thing that’s really helped me is asking myself, “Will this matter tomorrow?” If the answer’s no, I’ve started treating it like a coin flip decision. Future me is going to survive whether I walked or drove. The time spent overthinking it is usually the only bit that actually costs me.

I also wonder if it might help to notice when this happens. Is it when you’re tired? Hungry? Already feeling overwhelmed? Sometimes it’s not that the decision is hard, it’s that your brain has run out of bandwidth.

Obviously I can’t say whether it’s perfectionism, executive dysfunction, OCD or something else, but if this is happening across lots of areas of your life and it feels like it’s genuinely impacting you, it’s definitely worth chatting it through with someone. But from what you’ve written, I’d be inclined to start by taking the pressure off yourself. Hope this helps!

Next week I want to get into ultra-processed foods and whether they really deserve the reputation they’ve got, gut health and whether we actually need to eat 30 plants a week, the truth about protein and fibre and under-eating, and the hacks for eating well when time is poor and stress levels are high.

And I’ve got the perfect person joining me…

I hope you have a wonderful week & I’ll see you very soon,

I created the ultimate recommendations library

Working Hard — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:30:12 GMT

Hello! If you’re new here, welcome!! And if you’ve been a Working Hard subscriber for a while, welcome to our new home on Substack and thank you for sticking with me!

I know my spot in your inbox is precious, and let me tell you I do not take that for granted, so take this as my promise that I’ll only fill it with everything you need to set your week off on the right foot. I’m still sending out Working Hard every Tuesday as normal, nothing is changing, we just have a new home on Substack!

Now that the admin is done, we’re starting this new era as we mean to go on: with the outputs of me needing to be productive at all times. Essentially, I’ve put together a huge recommendations library for you.

When I started my maternity leave, I thought it would be fun to gather together everyone’s best recommendations and build one ridiculous library that we can all come back to whenever we need something new to read, watch or listen to.

So I asked over a million people for their absolute best recommendations, put every single one into one giant spreadsheet, tidied it all up and organised it into one very useful bank of brilliant things to get stuck into. Let me know what you choose to start, I want your reviews.

All you need to do to get access to the spreadsheet is subscribe for free below, and the link will appear in this article!

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And that’s it from me this week, a short, sharp welcome. I’ll be sending out Working Hard on Tuesday (as always), and I’m so excited for this new era.

I’ll see you on Tuesday! x

A Doctor’s guide to eating for your health (a full food reset with Dr Rupy)

Working Hard — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT

If you’re feeling mystified by what to eat, this episode is for you.

I wanted to sit down and pick Dr Rupy's brain properly on nutrition, because he's one of the only people I've come across who actually cuts through the diet culture and wellness noise with the science, without making you feel more anxious than when you started.

I hope you love it!

Disclaimer: Dr Rupy and I met working at Hide Foods, a company I co-own and he is scientific ambassador to!

WHERE TO FIND DR RUPY

The Doctor's Kitchen: https://www.thedoctorskitchen.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctors_kitchen/?hl=en

Hide foods: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-doctors-kitchen-podcast/id1316938642

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The one thing I do every year on 8th August that's changed my life

Working Hard — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Right so this week is August 8th, and I'd love for you to try this exercise because it's truly changed my life

Here's the link to the John Amaechi episode I clipped during this ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp5omd2s6Yo

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How to engineer your own luck (and the exercise I do every single year to do it)

Working Hard — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Today we're unpacking the idea of getting out of your own way and noticing when we're the ones doing the waiting, and figuring out how to stand somewhere that luck can actually find us.

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How to "marry well" in 2026 (and stop dating the wrong people)

Working Hard — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:00:00 GMT

I want to be clear about something before you listen to this episode.

When I say "marry well," I don't mean marry rich or marry impressive or marry a man who looks good on paper. I mean build a relationship that genuinely makes your life better. One built on real compatibility, mutual respect, and matched effort. That goes in the direction of how you want your life to go. And that was the brief for this episode.

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How to actually build better habits (and stop getting in your own way) with Nir Eyal

Working Hard — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:00:00 GMT

A while back I did a video on habit theory and it kind of took on a life of its own, loads of you messaged me about it and it's still one of the most popular videos I’ve ever done. So when I heard that the expert I spoke to in that video was finally coming to the UK, I knew I needed to make a recording happen.

Nir Eyal is an author and lecturer who has spent years studying what makes humans tick, how habits actually form in the brain, why we're all so distracted and what people who achieve extraordinary things actually do differently with their days. Essentially, he’s an expert in a lot of the things we love to talk about on this side of the internet. I hope you love the episode!

WHERE TO FIND NIR EYAL

Website: https://www.nirandfar.com/
His book, Beyond Belief: https://www.nirandfar.com/beyond-belief/
His Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nireyal/

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How to have better conversations (that add true value to your life)

Working Hard — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Today we’re getting into the actual science of great conversation and ultimately why curiosity is a more powerful social skill than charisma, and how to make yourself a better conversationalist in any scenario, whether that’s a first date, a job interview, or a catch up with a friend.

Thank you so much to the brilliant Susie Ashfield for being my expert for this episode, you can find her links below:

Website: https://susieashfield.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/susieashfieldspeechcoach/

Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/just-f-king-say-it/susie-ashfield/9781783968725?

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What actually happened to the girlboss?

Working Hard — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:00:00 GMT

I came across this article in Vogue a few months ago now about whether the girlboss is making a comeback, and it really got me thinking, because it feels like we all lived through this era, watched it rise, watched it fall, and not taken the time or space to examine what's behind it

So in this episode, I want to use that article to break it down and have a big old chat all about it!

You can read the article here: https://www.vogue.com/article/is-the-girlboss-making-a-comeback

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So you want to start a fashion brand? Here’s how (with Elizabeth Stiles)

Working Hard — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:00:00 GMT

I get asked all the time how to actually build a fashion brand, from roles to pricing to manufacturers, and honestly it’s something I’ve always been a bit hesitant to cover on my own because I only have my perspective from building TALA.

The reality is, fashion looks quite glamorous from the outside, but behind the scenes it’s a completely different story.

So I wanted to bring in someone who’s seen it across loads of brands. I’m joined by Elizabeth Stiles, a fashion consultant who’s worked across some of the biggest brands in the UK and now advises businesses on how to grow and scale.

Between the two of us, we’re breaking down exactly how a fashion brand actually works.

WHERE TO FIND ELIZABETH STILES

Website: https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk/
Elizabeth's IG: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethstilesuk/?hl=en
Elizabeth's podcast (which I'm on this week!) : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fashion-brand-clinic-podcast/id1456543176

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How to get out of your mid-year slump (& set yourself up for the next 6 months)

Working Hard — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Today’s episode is for anyone who started the year feeling very organised and possibly even slightly insufferable about their goals, you might have even listened to our full new year series and is now mid-year and in a big fat slump.

We're going to get you out of it here & now!

In the episode I mentioned my calendar management bonus episode, it's here if you want to listen: https://shows.acast.com/working-hard-hardly-working/episodes/how-to-build-your-2026-hot-girl-calendar

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How to Build Wealth in Your 20s & 30s Without Giving Up the Life You Want

Working Hard — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:00:00 GMT

This episode is a guide to building financial freedom and being radically transparent about how to do it.

Today I'm joined by Mia McGrath, who you’ll probably know from her super transparent money journey online, she went from earning a starting salary in her junior fashion job to being on the road to her first million, and she's documented every step of the way, super transparently. She has a fascinating story and was so open as to how that's impacted her life and her attitude to her finances.

MIA'S LINKS:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miarose_mcgrath/?hl=en

Website: https://www.miamcgrath.co.uk/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@miarosemcgrath?lang=en-GB

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This episode is not financial advice and we are not financial advistors!

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