Eight years ago, I came home to New Zealand after a stint in the Australian mining world, ready for my next thing. What I got instead was a lot of "you're overqualified for New Zealand." Not quite the welcome home I'd pictured.

So I did what I do. I pivoted. I took myself online, backed the skills I already had, and started building. And honestly? Being told I didn't fit the box was the best thing that could've happened, because it made me a master of the pivot. My business has been quietly reinventing itself ever since, because I have. I've learned that's not a flaw. That's just growth.

For a long time I built the way you're "supposed" to. Push harder, do more, be everywhere. Then a season of surgery and recovery took the choice away from me. I had to slow down. And in that forced quiet, I realised I didn't want a business that only worked when I could run myself into the ground. I wanted one that fit my life, not one my life had to bend around.

That's where Biz Bestie Club came from. Everything I do now is built on that one idea: a business that makes sense, at a pace that's actually human.