Saunders Fearns Catalyst Coaching

18/10/2026

A weekend full of love! Mum and Dads second 70th celebration
Blessed to have these two as the heart of our family
We’ve laughed, cried, sang, ate, drank and most of all had fun all weekend
Princess Bo Biffarina Morley Jon MK Barbara Fearns

16/10/2026

Watching TOTP2 and this came on from 1998.
Two incredible voices, two of my absolute favourites and what a song. But also two incredibly tortured souls. Whitney died at 48, same age as me…and George at 53, the same age as
Listening to this in 1998 I don’t think any of us thought that they’d both be dead 14 and 18 years later
You only get one life. Live it wisely

10/10/2026

30/09/2026

Open this if you want to donate to an awesome cause

I’ve finally decided to share my incredible comedy talent with a paying audience 😂🎤 and I’m not kidding!

I’ve signed up for four weeks of stand-up training, then I’m performing live on 19 November at Blackstock Market, Liverpool.

My son reckons my Goofy and Cilla Black impressions won’t get me through it. My husband looked at me like I was mad! Honestly, the lack of support in this house 🙄😂

It’s all for The Comedy Trust, who use laughter and comedy to support mental wellbeing, build confidence and bring people together ❤️

Spare a few quid if you can
👉 https://www.justgiving.com/page/niki-saunders-fearns-1

17/09/2026

SAVE THIS if your brain keeps a better record of your mistakes than your successes.

She remembered the school email she hadn’t sent.

The parents’ evening she hadn’t booked.

The dinner money.

The mouse.

The email she’d sent in a temper.

The present she’d forgotten.

The people she hadn’t called.

And the son who was annoyed because she worked too much.

She had receipts for every way she thought she’d failed that day.

But when I asked her what she’d done well?

She’d helped her son make a brilliant start at high school.

Created something lovely for her family to look forward to.

And supported a colleague so well they’d gone out of their way to tell her.

None of those things had made her original list.

And that’s the bit I can’t stop thinking about.

Isn’t it funny how the bad stays with us and the good gets overlooked?

Especially when you’re carrying a lot.

So try this tonight.

Before you run through everything you didn’t finish, forgot, got wrong or could have done better…

name three things you did well.

Not because the difficult stuff doesn’t matter.

Because it isn’t the whole story.

Save this. And tonight, find your three.

15/09/2026

SAVE THIS for the next time something you really want scares the life out of you.

We have a strange relationship with fresh starts.

We think the right decision should feel exciting.

That if we’re ready, we’ll feel confident.

That if we’re scared, perhaps our gut is trying to tell us something.

But sometimes fear isn’t a warning.

Sometimes you’re scared because you’re about to do something you’ve never done before.

A new job.
A new relationship.
Starting the business.
Leaving the career.
Moving somewhere new.
Beginning again when everyone thought you’d stay exactly where you were.

You can be excited and terrified.

Certain about what you want and nervous about what comes next.

The presence of fear doesn’t automatically mean the absence of courage.

So when your brain starts asking:

What if I get this wrong?

Try asking it something else:

What if this is the beginning of something brilliant?

🚕 Save this one. You might need reminding of it when your next fresh start arrives.

07/09/2026

Send this to the woman who needs to stop asking someone else why she wasn’t enough.

She kept asking men who hadn’t chosen her to explain why she wasn’t enough.

And that was the bit I wanted to shake her over.

Not the crying.
Not the heartbreak.
Not even the terrible relationships.

It was watching this brilliant, intelligent, beautiful woman repeatedly hand somebody else the power to decide what she was worth.

Because sometimes you won’t get the explanation.

Sometimes somebody just doesn’t choose you.

Sometimes they don’t value what you bring.

And sometimes there is no answer that will make rejection hurt less.

But their decision is not evidence that there is something wrong with you.

Stop auditioning for people who have already shown you they don’t deserve a front-row seat in your life.

You don’t need them to explain your worth back to you.

You need to know it before they arrive.

I hugged her when she got out of my taxi.

And I really hope she went home knowing this:

She was never asking the wrong question.
She was asking the wrong person.

🚕❤️

04/09/2026

A menopause policy is not enough.

Because the difficult bit isn’t writing the policy.

It’s what happens when an experienced woman who has always performed well suddenly starts struggling.

Her confidence changes.

She can’t concentrate like she used to.

She starts forgetting things.

Her behaviour changes.

Maybe her attendance does too.

Does her manager actually know what to do?

Do they raise it?
Avoid it?
Treat it purely as a performance issue?
Mention menopause?
Say nothing because they’re terrified of saying the wrong thing?

That gap is exactly what we’re tackling at Beyond the Policy on Wednesday 23rd September at Clockwise Liverpool.

Ikigai HR Consulting Ltd (ig-hr) will bring the HR and employment perspective.

I’ll be bringing the leadership and performance side — including how perimenopause can affect confidence, cognition and performance, and how managers can have better conversations without diagnosing, making assumptions or lowering standards.

Because experienced women don’t suddenly become less capable in midlife.

But when managers don’t understand what they’re seeing, organisations can misread the signs, mishandle performance and risk losing experienced people they could have retained. That’s exactly the performance-and-retention territory you’ve positioned your organisational work around. Midlife and Talent Retention.pdf

This isn’t another menopause-awareness session.

It’s about what managers actually do when menopause starts showing up at work.

📅 Wednesday 23rd September
⏰ 9.30am
📍 Clockwise Liverpool

🎟️ Book your place — link in bio.

Your ticket also includes breakfast, relaxed networking and a full co-working day at Clockwise Liverpool.