Coaching with Alice

Field Notes

Ideas, evidence and honest conversation for founders who'd rather be outside.

How to build a founder community, even if you never join ours community female founders hiking loneliness netwalking networking outdoors scotland scottish hills wellbeing women in business Oct 08, 2026

In our connection call this week one of our members said something that has stuck with me: “It’s lonely when you’re in charge of something.”

Why leading feels lonely

It's true, you can be surrounded by people all day and still be unable to say how it’s really going. If you’re a sole trader working...

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Hiking is the new networking community female founders hiking loneliness netwalking networking scotland wellbeing Sep 15, 2026

Hiking is the new networking. Not the kind with name badges and forced small talk over lukewarm coffee, but the kind that happens on a trail in Fife with muddy trainers, happy dogs and two founders working out loud what's been going wrong at work. For years we've treated networking as something that...

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