26/05/2026
When I first started my business, I found a few people who were in very similar situations to me.
We didn’t plan to meet. It just happened naturally, through conversations and shared experiences. But we connected quickly, and over time became close.
We were all trying to figure things out in our own way. Different businesses, different stages, different skills. But there were enough shared challenges for it to matter.
As the months went on, that connection became something much more important than I think any of us expected.
We had somewhere to go.
To ask questions that didn’t have obvious answers.
To talk through ideas that didn’t quite make sense yet.
To share the small wins that other people might not recognise as wins at all.
To be honest about the harder parts without needing to soften them.
It wasn’t just support. It was understanding.
And that’s a very different thing.
Because as supportive as friends and family can be, there are certain parts of this experience that are difficult to fully explain. Building a business from scratch is one thing. Doing it while navigating your health, fluctuating energy, or capacity that doesn’t behave predictably adds another layer entirely.
You can explain it. But being around people who already understand it removes something you don’t always realise you’re carrying.
Looking back, I don’t think I’ve ever been naive to how important those people were in me continuing.
Working for yourself, often from home, managing everything on your own, could have been incredibly isolating. And in many ways, it probably should have been.
But it wasn’t.
Because I wasn’t doing it alone.
That experience stayed with me.
And it’s a big part of why Spoonie Biz Club exists.
Not as a solution, or a strategy, or a “better way” of doing business. But as a space where people don’t have to figure everything out in isolation.
Because no matter how capable, determined, or motivated someone is, doing this alone makes it harder than it needs to be.
And in many cases, harder than it should be.
