The Work That Found Me

In August, a friend asked if I could help move their coaching business to a new platform. No brief. No plan. Just “I don’t know where to start.”

I didn’t think of myself as a product consultant. But I knew how to map strategy, phase change, and build systems that actually work. So I said yes.

That yes became Temple Body Training’s full migration MVP:

• A complete PRD.

• A platform build and migration plan.

• Client onboarding journeys.

• Brand foundations.

• Operational routines for launch from December to early January.

This wasn’t improvement work, it was creation. Tight budget. Tight timeline. One business owner who needed a solution that wouldn’t collapse on day one. And I realised I love this kind of work. Translating vision into decisions. Building something useful, not hypothetical.

Building for Someone Else Made Me Build for Myself

While I was building their MVP, I was also building my own systems.

A Notion setup that tracks every workshop, every metric, every achievement. Evidence libraries. Logs. Learning databases. Structures that hold my work on the days my brain can’t.

When you’re neurodivergent and moving through transition, grief, and recovery at once, systems aren’t a luxury. They’re how you protect your capacity and your dignity.

Clarity Hive Became Real This Year

Clarity Hive started in 2023 when I was still at Save the Children. Workshops on the side. Small pieces of facilitation. A vision I held quietly.

This year, it grew.

• A 4.8 satisfaction rating.

• Teaching postgraduate students in Lucerne on power, systems change, and inclusive leadership.

• Consulting with organisations trying to build more equitable systems.

• Designing learning that actually shifts behaviour.

Work is arriving through recommendations and conversations. For the first time, this unpredictable, no-fixed-salary path feels like it might be the right one.

Something Else Is Forming

For years I've been collecting ideas. Freire. hooks. Critical pedagogy. Somatics. Systems thinking. Ways of learning that honour the body, acknowledge power, engage the mind, and make space for creativity and desire.

I didn't set out to build a pedagogical framework. But as I've been teaching, facilitating, and designing, something has been crystallizing. A structure that integrates body, power, cognition, and creativity. A way of thinking about learning that feels whole.

It's still forming. Still private. But it's there, underneath everything I'm building with Clarity Hive. Another thing the work is teaching me as I do it.

What I’m Learning

• I don’t need an organisation to do meaningful work.

• Product thinking applies everywhere, from five-client coaching businesses to platforms serving hundreds of thousands.

• I can hold strategy and detail at the same time.

• I thrive in this in-between. Not fully employed. Not fully “agency mode”. A portfolio that adapts month to month.

I don’t know exactly what the next six months look like. Whether I take a permanent role or keep growing this patchwork path. Whether Clarity Hive stays small or becomes something larger.

But the work on my desk right now is good. It uses everything I’ve built. It stretches me in the ways I want.

For now it’s simple:

One project. One workshop. One system at a time.