small business Ireland

What My Mother Left Me

What My Mother Left Me

When money arrived from my mother's estate, I couldn't touch it for months - I had no idea what it meant, or what to do with it. This is a piece about inheritance, about fear dressed up as responsibility, and about the skill neither my mother nor I was ever taught. It closes with an invitation to a Lighthouse Lab on financial confidence, Tuesday 8th September.

The Rope, the Horizon, and the Ick - what Her Circle taught me about boundaries

The Rope, the Horizon, and the Ick - what Her Circle taught me about boundaries

When I asked the women of Her Circle what word comes to mind when they think of boundaries, they said: wall. Fence. Rigid. And then we sat with why boundaries matter - and everything softened. This post is about what we found: the rope, the horizon, and the ick.

Money Beliefs - the story we didn't choose

Money Beliefs - the story we didn't choose

This Tuesday's Lighthouse Labs, our guest Jole Berlage-Buccellati opened with a provocation: most of what blocks us around money doesn't live in the mind. It lives in the body. In patterns carried from ancestors who survived things we have no memory of. This is what came up for me - and what I'm still sitting with.