I didn't set out to build a business around the Corporate Hangover.

It grew out of my own experience of leaving employment, building a business and over time, noticing the same patterns appearing again and again in conversations with other women doing the same.

These were capable, experienced women who knew their fields. Yet without the structure, expectations and validation they'd been used to in corporate life, decisions could suddenly feel much harder and more complicated.

Putting themselves out there felt different – uncomfortable and unfamiliar. There was nobody signing things off, setting the priorities or telling them they'd done enough.

But I also noticed something else.

Sometimes the problem wasn't an old corporate habit. They simply hadn't had to know this stuff before.

How do you turn your expertise into something people will buy? What actually matters when you're starting out? How do you create opportunities rather than wait for them? How do you decide what's good enough when nobody else is setting the standard?

I became increasingly interested in that gap between being highly experienced at your work and learning how to build and run a business of your own.

That gap became the foundation of the work I do today: helping women work out what they can take from corporate, what they may need to leave behind and what they need to learn for the business they're building next.