Coaching with Alice

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

Notes from the shortest days. daylight female founders fife founder burnout habits lifestyle medicine outdoors rest winter wellbeing Nov 03, 2026

The clocks have gone back and the heating's been flicked to β€˜on’. I've swapped my trusty cap for a woolly hat on my morning walks and the last of the bees have gone for another year. We're heading towards the darkest day and if you work long hours, winter daylight gets hard to come by. In truth, itΒ ...

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The bit of your business plan you forgot is you breathwork chronic stress female founders founder burnout resilience Sep 24, 2026

The bit of your business plan you forgot is you. Not your cash flow forecast, not your marketing funnel or your five-year growth targets, but the actual person expected to deliver all of it, day after day, on whatever sleep and patience you've got left. Somewhere along the way, hustle culture got gl...

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