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Claire's Story

My story begins with a ream of yellow paper, which my Dad had brought back from the pub.  He used to pick up odd things from some of the locals, and one Saturday, he came back with the paper.

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While on maternity leave with my son Jackson, now 4, I picked up some craft wire and created Vivid Wire, my product based business.  The business that set my dreams alight.

 

I chose to leave education in July 2020 and work full time on Vivid Wire, to create beautiful, bold, brave and colourful wire art, to make blank walls happy!

 

I found working on my own a great challenge.  Moving from a busy secondary school to solo entrepreneurship was a shock.  All my time had been full with structure and now I felt like I was drowning, with no direction.  My doubts got LOUD, my limiting, negative thoughts were even louder, and I didn’t have the energy, drive or motivation to make this work.  The guilt of leaving a well established career was swallowing me up.  The trauma I had experienced in my life had changed the way I learnt and saw myself, and it was only when I studied my masters degree, with a focus on trauma informed approaches, that I recognised how many symptoms of trauma I experienced on a daily basis.

 

It was a few dark months in, that I began to slowly pull together the skills I had acquired through my leadership rolls and supporting different types of people, and my masters degree, that I realised I needed to use these skills, to become my best self.


I found my Warrior Energy first.  I discovered that if I did a set of the same activities every day, I had more energy and fuel to drive my business forward.  The next step, was creating a formula for my Vision, Strategy + Planning.  I knew that I needed to have focus and direction.  Next, was my Money Making Attitude.  I read a shit ton of books, listened to lots of podcasts and invested in training and coaching to develop a positive money mindset.  The last step, and one which a lot of business owners find a challenge, was working on my Consistency + Productivity.  I created 'life hacks' to trick myself into becoming more productive and consistent.  

 

These elements together, form my Warrior Boss Framework, but I was the only one using it!

 

I knew that there were business owners out there, like me, who may have had challenging lives, had survived struggles, and had big dreams.

With all my knowledge, skills and experience, I know that I can help you transform from a worrier to a Warrior

 

The reasons why I do this work

 

  • To transform you, a business owner, from a worrier to a Warrior, just like I did.

  • To empower you and give you tools to take control of your business growth and design the life you dream of.

  • To deliver courses and coaching with a trauma informed approach, to recognise that pain has changed the way you learn.

 

  • I want to show you that the fact you are still here today, building a business, despite the heartache and grief, gives you strength and determination that you don’t yet realise exists.  It is all there ready to be woken up with your Warrior energy.  Unleashed on the world to show everyone, the Warrior you are. 

 

  • I want to show you what you can do despite what circumstances you started with.

 

  • I want to inspire children who grow up in poverty, only have one parent, are young carers, that they can burst out of those labels and create their own.

 

 

Trust the Process

Trust that every single step you have ever taken, every choice you have made, has led you right here to this point, reading my story.

 

I want you to soak up every word and use it to fuel you and motivate you, and remember that if it’s possible for me, it’s possible for you.

 

I want to create a safe place for my clients, where no dream is too big.  Where you have space to be implement what I teach you, with support and accountability too.

 

We can dream but we can also turn those dreams into reality.  Every single thing you dream is possible.  You just need Warrior Energy, consistency, belief, gratitude and trust.  

I know, you were made for this! Don’t be drowned by your doubts.  Hold your nerve.  Trust the process. 

Become a Warrior Boss.

I set to work almost immediately, cutting and cello-taping pieces together to transform the flat 2d paper into a 3d model.  I created almost constantly until Feb 28th 1993 when my Dad passed away.  He left behind my Mum, sisters and my brother, who my mum was 8 weeks pregnant with, at the time.

 

I am not telling you this to pity me.  It is a really sad story and there was more pain to come.  I am telling you this because I know what it’s like to have to put your passion, joy and magic into a box and do things for others because the circumstances, at the time, called for it.

 

When my Dad died, I put down my crafts, and became a young carer for my mum and younger siblings.  Although I didn’t craft anymore, I did study hard at school and left with good grades.  I believed that good grades would help me escape my poverty and painful circumstances.  I was lucky to have my Grandad, Godfather and my first boyfriend’s mum (!), who played important roles in fuelling me with their belief in my potential.

 

Due to being a young carer, I fell into caring job roles; support worker, and then homes manager for services for adult with learning disabilities, working with homeless adults and families, and then into education as a teacher.  My last role before becoming a full time entrepreneur, was an assistant headteacher at a secondary school, working with disadvantaged and vulnerable students.

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