Shut Your Laptop And Open Your Door

Here's why Alice Thomson built a business community around that idea.

Hi, I'm Alice

I started my health coaching business and almost immediately found myself doing the opposite of everything I believed in - back-to-back online meetings, windowless offices, working alone.

I'd spent years in clinical practice as a Dentist and then retrained in Lifestyle Medicine because I genuinely believe that how we move, eat, sleep and connect shapes everything else. And there I was, not doing any of it.

So I took my clients outside. We walked and talked and I watched what happened when people got moving in the fresh air - how their thinking opened up, how problems that felt stuck started to shift. It worked better than anything I'd done indoors.

Around the same time I was trying to build a business network and finding conventional networking events awkward and uninspiring. Nothing clicked. Nobody seemed to be having a particularly good time.

The two things came together. What if networking felt like this instead - outside, moving, with people you actually wanted to spend time with?

That was the idea. The Fresh Air Collective has been running ever since.