What Nearly 20 Years at the Bedside Taught Me About Preparation
The difference between families who were ready and families who weren't was almost never income. It was whether someone had thought about it beforehand.
Short pieces on leadership, entrepreneurship, financial clarity and the things two decades in healthcare taught me. I only write about what I've actually lived through.
The difference between families who were ready and families who weren't was almost never income. It was whether someone had thought about it beforehand.
Leaving a stable profession isn't a single brave decision. It's a long series of small ones, most of which nobody sees.
I expected the sale to feel like an ending. What I didn't expect was how much of my sense of self had quietly attached itself to the thing I'd built.
These are the pieces I'm working on next. They're listed here so you can see where this is heading. Each one will be published only once it's genuinely written, in my own words, from my own experience.
Confidence isn't a feeling you get from having more. It's a feeling you get from knowing where you stand.
What I got wrong during the years I was working shifts and running a business at the same time.
A practical way to check whether one of the five areas has gone quiet without you noticing.
Every ceiling I hit turned out to be mine. The business didn't move until I did.
The things that quietly stay on autopilot when a career moves faster than the paperwork.
Both are honourable. They are not the same activity, and confusing them causes a lot of frustration.
On the difference between being sold something and understanding something.
I read constantly, mostly business, leadership and personal development, with the occasional detour. Reading is the closest thing I've found to borrowing someone else's twenty years.
A full annotated list of the books and ideas that have influenced how I think about leadership, business and life is something I'm putting together properly rather than dashing off. It'll live here when it's ready.