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Fleur Marks, 2/30 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay (2026)

02/09/2026

When I was seven I forgot an entire tap routine on stage. 🖤

Hello Dolly. Me and my friend Jackie. Both my parents in the audience, which almost never happened, because my dad rarely showed up for the things that mattered.

I stepped out, looked at them, and every rehearsed move vanished.

My feet had a life of their own. But my hands kept swaying. And I kept the smile on, perfectly, for the entire routine - out of step from the first beat to the last, pretending nothing was wrong and praying it would end.

I learned something that afternoon that took me thirty years to unlearn. That love was earned through perfect performance and lost through visible failure.

So I got very, very good at "swanning while drowning".

Graceful on top. Paddling like mad underneath. Power suits, high heels, always the youngest in the room and always the most composed one in it. Making it look effortless so nobody could see the padding.

By senior leadership my swan act was flawless. It was also exhausting, and it was costing me everything that was not visible.

Here is the thing about swanning. Everyone congratulates you for it. Nobody ever asks if you can swim.

Your take today: name one place this week you performed "fine" when you were not. You do not have to tell anyone but yourself.

Swanning While Drowning is Chapter 3. Link in bio.

Send this to someone who makes it all look effortless. ✨

01/09/2026

I wore the same blue suit for four days. 🖤

I walked into work on a Monday morning in a beautiful blue two-piece. Four days later I was still wearing it.

No sleep. No shower. No change of clothes. Just me, that suit, some deodorant and perfume, and the promise that this pitch would finally prove how exceptional I was.

I lost three kilos that week from stress alone. My body was literally consuming itself to fuel my pursuit of perfect. By Thursday the suit hung differently - a physical reminder of what I was willing to sacrifice to prove myself.

Here is what I know now, and what took me twenty years and a hospital bed to learn:

You were always enough. The achievement just made it harder to see as I continued to prove my value - worried I was only ever as good as my last achievement.

That is the first shift of the reset, and I named the chapter after the words I finally said to myself: Enough Already.

Not enough as in stop. Enough as in - you have already done enough, you already are enough, and you already have enough. Read that again slowly and notice which of the three you created a physiological reaction - an internal sigh, heart race, or deep yearn.

That one you connect with? That is where your work is.

This week I am posting what the other side actually looks like - excellence without the exhaustion. Not doing less. Not wanting less. Something better than both.

The Blue Two Piece Suit opens Chapter 5. Link in bio. ✨

30/08/2026

Sparkle Sunday, darling. ✨

One question before Monday: what would you stop doing if nobody was watching?

Not the big things. The polishing. The proving. The ninth read-through of an email that was fine the first time. The staying online until someone senior logs off.

Whatever just came to mind - that one was never for you. It's for an audience that, mostly, stopped watching years ago.

You don't have to stop it this week. Just notice who you're performing it for.

That's Chapter 2 of The Overachiever's Reset - the Proving belief. Link in bio. 🖤

Send this to a Sequin Sister who needs the question.

29/08/2026

Listen to yourself for JUST one day. 🖤

You will be shocked how often that four-letter word slips out.

I just need to get through this week.
I'll just rest when this project is done.
Just one more email.
Just this meeting, then I'm done.

Four letters. It sounds like nothing. It is the most dangerous word I own.

Last week a client needed 160 slides amended. I was up at 5am and worked solidly all day with barely a break. I told my husband I could not stop for dinner because I just needed to finish the deck.

Nobody had asked for it by the morning. I set that deadline. I made that deal.

And that is when it landed - I was not managing my workload. I was negotiating with myself like a hostage trying to appease a captor.

Just is not a small word. It is a permission slip. It makes the unreasonable sound manageable and the impossible feel temporary. It is how you trade your evening, your boundary, your body - one tiny compromise at a time.

Your take today: count your justs. Do not change anything. Just count them.

Whatever number you land on is the number of times you talked yourself out of your own limits in a single day.

Tell me your number below. Mine was eleven.

Inner Deal Making is Chapter 3 of the book. Link in bio. ✨

27/08/2026

Kinda chic. ✨

Kinda chic that I launched a bestselling book while navigating cancer treatment. The second time.

Kinda chic that I have spent fifteen years dancing between hospital beds and boardrooms - and I am still dancing between both with a smile on my face.

Kinda chic that my day does not start until ten, because looking after me is the first meeting of the day. Self full to be self less.

Kinda chic that I turned fifteen years of fighting for my life into the work that stops other leaders ending up like me.

Kinda chic that I asked for help this year when faced with cancer again - which nobody teaches an overachiever to do - and chose sequins over superwoman, and a whole Sequin Squad turned up. Thank you my sequin sisters.

And kinda chic that you're still here too. Still going. Still ambitious. Still sparkling in the weeks nobody claps for. Doing the best you can. Showing up every single day.

Tell me one kinda chic thing about your life below - the one you'd never normally say out loud. Share this with a fellow sequin sister if this resonated too 🖤

By the way, my whole kinda chic is in my book - link in bio.

26/08/2026

Just finished. Two and a half days, a galaxy theme, and more sequins than strictly necessary.

Walking it off by the water because I wanted a minute to sit with it.

The thing that stayed with me was the way they leaned in. Fully engaged & open asking How can I be better? How can I show up & make impact? Not one person coasted.

We talked about true north. It’s not a poster on a wall. It’s the thing that drives you & so much more.

I’m tired. Cup full. Both true.

What’s lighting you up today?

26/08/2026

I turned a hospital bed into a corner office. 🖤

Laptop out. Notebook open. Jacket over the gown. Makeup applied with the precision of a board meeting.

The machines beeped their disapproval, but I had emails to answer. The nurses shook their heads.

I called it Tuesday.

I was immune compromised, so I had a private room, and I genuinely remember thinking - brilliant, no distractions. Best way to kill the week rather than waste it just lying here.

That is not a funny story. That is six years of denial with a laptop in it.

I had worked myself sick and I would not have it. I was still calling the drowning a swimming pool of high performance.

Here is what I want you to take from it, because it is the only useful part.

Your body will not negotiate with you. It will send you signals for years - the tiredness that sleep does not fix, the thing you keep meaning to get looked at, the Sunday dread. And when you ignore those, it stops asking.

You do not have to end up where I ended up to make the change. That is the whole reason I wrote it down.

Your take today: name the one signal you have been explaining away. Just name it. That is enough for today.

Corner Office, Hospital Gown is in Chapter 3. Link in bio.

25/08/2026

Somewhere along the way, a lunch break became a fantasy. 🖤

Rushing from thing to thing, back to back, never enough time - and a to-do list that grows faster than you can clear it.

I see you, because I was you, for two decades. I thought it was something I was doing wrong. It isn't. It's an operating system overachievers fall into - and I call it the 5 P's of Overachieving:

1. PERFECTIONISM. It has to be flawless or I'll fail.

2. PLEASING. Everyone else first, me last. Yes tumbles out before you've checked whether you have room for it.

3. PROVING. I must earn my worth through what I deliver.

4. PERFORMING. I must have it all together, all the time.

5. PUSHING. Keep going, it'll get better soon. It's just a busy period. Slowing down feels like failure.

Here's the part nobody says out loud: every one of these P's got you promoted. They work. They make you feel valued.

Until they don't. Maybe it's wondering how much longer you can keep this up. Maybe it's your body saying enough. Or a little voice whispering: please, for the love of god, let me rest.

Society rewards every one of these P's. The bravery is tuning in and finding a better way - because achieving at the cost of you is not worth it.

So, gently, as you rush through today: which P am I showing up in? Tell me below - you won't be the only one.

Next Tuesday: what I actually did about it.

The 5 P's are Chapter 2 of The Overachiever's Reset. Link in bio. ✨

23/08/2026

Sparkle Sunday, darling. ✨

One question before Monday: what if you had done enough, were enough - and had enough?

Behind most relentless achieving are three quiet stories: I haven't done enough. I'm not enough. I don't have enough. They run in the background like malware, driving choices you don't even notice you're making.

So sit with the question for one minute tonight. Not to answer it - just to notice which of the three argues back first. That one is yours.

Then think, knowing the busy week ahead that you have, how would I show up this week if I truly believed I had done enough, had enough and most importantly am enough exactly as I am? That's where the real reset shift happens. Not on your to-do list but from within - Part Two of The Overachiever's Reset - link in bio. 🖤

Send this to a Sequin Sister who never thinks she's done enough. She needs the question more than anyone.

18/08/2026

You don't lose your voice in the big moments. You lose your belief that it matters. 🖤

I watched it again last month - a room of brilliant senior leaders, every one of them capable, every one of them shrinking a size the moment the stakes went up.

So here's what I taught them - and what may help you too:
- Your body speaks before you do. Breath low, feet planted, pace slow - the room reads presence before it hears a single word
- Pressure is physiology, not personality. Having all the answers isn't the solution - overpreparing just pushes you towards perfect, when what you actually need is to set yourself up to be grounded. One long exhale buys your brain back
- Authentic beats polished, every time. Your story and who you are is what connects - that's what lets you own the room

And once they backed themselves and showed up as exactly who they are? They crushed it. They stepped into their power.

Speaking your worth is a skill. And like every skill, it can be learnt. ✨

Which one do you need most right now - body, pressure, or backing yourself? Tell me below. 🖤

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