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The Workplace Shift Nobody's Talking About

August 04, 2026

If you want to know which patterns are showing up for you in light of this shift, take our brand new free Success Strategy Assessment.Work feels like it is speeding up while the ground keeps shifting underneath us. One minute we are told to move faster, take more risks, and “fail forward”; the next minute we are trapped in red tape, risk aversion, and a culture that rewards visibility over real value. I unpack what I am seeing across workplaces right now: low-growth pressure, restructures and...

No One Tells You How Hard It Is To Be Yourself (Jo Moment)

July 31, 2026

“Just be yourself” sounds empowering until you realise it gives you nothing to do. If you’ve spent years being the capable one, the reliable one, the person who can carry everything, you might not even notice how often you edit yourself to stay safe and loved. Jo Stone unpacks why this common advice can feel hollow for women in midlife, and why the real work is less about thinking your way into authenticity and more about living your way there.We talk identity shift and reinvention as a serie...

The Hidden Strategy Behind Your Success

July 28, 2026

Discover your dominant Success Strategy here.You can be capable, reliable and wildly productive, and still feel like your life no longer fits. That tension is often not a motivation problem. It can be a success strategy that worked brilliantly for years, then quietly started costing more than it gives back.We dig into how patterns like over-helping, over-planning, over-working and over-perfecting become default settings in the brain. When a strategy brings rewards like validation, promotions ...