Justelle Marketing & Media Ltd

02/11/2026

Our final Business Leaders Breakfast of 2026 is coming up on Monday 17 November, and if you have been meaning to come along, this is the one to book.

We have spent the last few months building a group around something simple: better conversations, stronger connections and useful opportunities.
😊No long sales pitches.
😊No referral pressure.
😊No need to perform.
😊Just a relaxed breakfast with people who are open to talking properly about business, sharing ideas, making introductions and helping each other move forward.😊😊😊

If you are a business owner, freelancer, manager, team member, start-up, charity, social enterprise or professional helping business growth in any way, you are welcome.

The November meeting will be our last event of the year, so it is a great opportunity to make new connections before Christmas and go into 2027 with fresh conversations already started.
Monday 17 November 8.30 am – 10.30 am
Hurds Hill, Langport

Expect:
• Relaxed networking
• Focused introductions
• Useful business conversations
• Practical insight and opportunities
• Breakfast, tea and coffee
• A room full of people worth meeting

If you have joined us before, come back and keep the conversations going.
If you have not been yet, make this your first one.

Book your place now and finish the business year with one more useful conversation, connection or opportunity.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/business-leaders-breakfast-tickets-1998345304600?aff=oddtdtcreator

Business Leaders Breakfast
Local Connections. Wider Opportunities.

12/10/2026

A little Monday reminder that Business Leaders Breakfast is back next week. If you have been meaning to book for the October event, this is your nudge.

We are back at Hurds Hill, Langport on Tuesday 20 October at 8.30 am for another morning of relaxed networking, good conversations and useful connections.

No long sales pitches. No pressure. Just a room full of people who are open to meeting others, sharing ideas and seeing where conversations might lead.

Whether you came to the launch in September or this will be your first time, you will be very welcome. Bookings close at lunchtime on Friday 16 October, so please do not leave it too late.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/business-leaders-breakfast-tickets-1998345240408?aff=oddtdtcreator

And if you know someone who would enjoy the group, please share this with them too.

Business Leaders Breakfast
Local Connections. Wider Opportunities.

Join us for the Business Leaders Breakfast to network, share ideas, and fuel your morning with great coffee and breakfast!

24/09/2026

Sometimes less really is more.

I’ve been doing something recently that I spend a lot of time encouraging other business owners to do: stepping back and taking a proper look at my own business.

Over the years, Justelle has evolved. I’ve worked across marketing, training, consultancy, mentoring, strategy and a whole range of projects. I’ve enjoyed much of it and learned an enormous amount along the way. But there comes a point when being able to do lots of things can actually make it harder to see what you should be doing.

So I’ve asked myself some of the questions I regularly ask clients.

Where do I add the most value? What work do I genuinely enjoy? What do people really come to me for? And, perhaps most importantly, what do I want Justelle to look like in the future?

The answer has been surprisingly clear.

I love getting under the skin of a business. Understanding what is really happening. Asking the questions that perhaps nobody else is asking. Challenging assumptions. Spotting opportunities. Helping owners and leadership teams make decisions and then turning those decisions into practical action.

So Justelle is becoming simpler.

My focus is now firmly on strategy, business mentoring, advisory support and practical consultancy. It’s less about offering everything I can do and much more about concentrating on where I can make the biggest difference.

And there’s probably a question in that for other business owners too: If you were designing your business again today, what would you choose to keep, and what would you leave behind?

Independent thinking for better business decisions. Helping people do business better.

21/09/2026

I'm probably not the right business mentor for everyone. 🤫

I'm not going to sit opposite you once a month, nod enthusiastically and tell you that every idea is brilliant. 😉

Sometimes I'll ask an awkward question. Sometimes I'll challenge something you've been doing for years. Sometimes I'll tell you I think there's another option worth considering. 🫨

Not because I have all the answers. I don't. 🤫

But when you're running a business, having someone independent to think things through with can be incredibly valuable.

😁Someone who isn't an employee, customer, supplier or family member. Someone who can challenge you without having another agenda.

😁That's the kind of business mentoring I believe in: challenge, experience, ideas, accountability and practical support.

😁Because sometimes you don't need another course or another book. You need an experienced independent perspective.

Helping people do business better.

17/09/2026

When did you last properly look at your business?
Not your emails. Not this month's sales. Not the job that needs finishing. The actual business.

❓Where is it going? ❓What's making money?❓What's consuming too much time? ❓What should you stop? ❓Where are the opportunities? ❓And what are the three things that would make the biggest difference over the next 90 days?

🤔It's remarkably difficult to do this when you're in the middle of running it.🤔

That's why I've created the Justelle Business Review.

✔️It's a 2–3 hour strategic session where we'll take a proper look at the business, challenge some assumptions and work out what deserves your attention.
✔️You leave with a clear 90-day action plan.
✔️No enormous strategy document. No obligation to sign up for anything afterwards. Just clarity about what happens next.

£895 + VAT.

If you're interested, message me and let's have a conversation.

14/09/2026

I've realised I've been making my own business too complicated. 🤔🤔🤔

Which is slightly ironic when a large part of my job is helping other business owners find clarity in theirs. Over the years, Justelle has grown to do lots of things: marketing, training, consultancy, mentoring, strategy, projects and more. And I can do all of those things. ✔️ ✔️

But I've been asking myself a different question:❓❓❓Just because I can do something, does it mean I should❓❓❓

The answer is no.

So I'm simplifying.

The part of my work I enjoy most is getting under the skin of a business. Understanding what's really happening. Asking questions. Challenging assumptions. Spotting the thing that's being missed. Finding opportunities. And then helping turn that thinking into action.

✔️ ✔️ ✔️ So that's where I'm taking Justelle next. Much less about doing lots of different things. Much more about strategy, business mentoring, advisory work and practical consultancy.✔️ ✔️ ✔️

Still the same philosophy I've always had: Helping people do business better.

It turns out I needed to apply some of my own advice. 😉😉😉

27/07/2026

and a good time to explain what will make the new Business Leaders Breakfast different.

There are plenty of networking events where you can collect business cards, deliver a quick pitch and hope something useful comes from it.

Business Leaders Breakfast is being designed to be more constructive than that.

The aim is to create a relaxed and welcoming environment, but with enough structure to make the time genuinely worthwhile.

Each month, attendees will have the opportunity to make focused introductions, discuss current business challenges, share opportunities, ask the room for help and hear a short practical insight they can take back into their work.

There will be no compulsory membership, no referral targets and no pressure to perform.

Instead, the focus will be on meaningful conversations, useful introductions and practical outcomes.

And when we say business leaders, we mean everyone helping business move forward.

That includes owners, sole traders, freelancers, managers, team members, start-ups, charities, social enterprises and professionals at every stage. You do not need a senior title to lead business growth.

If you are creating opportunities, supporting customers, solving problems, developing ideas or helping an organisation progress, you belong in the room.

Business Leaders Breakfast
Local Connections. Wider Opportunities.

Launching 22nd September at Hurds Hill in Langport, with future dates and booking details coming soon.

Comment below or send me a message to join the priority list.

22/07/2026

Does the thought of delivering a sales pitch to a room full of people make you want to avoid networking altogether? You are not alone.

Not everyone enjoys standing up and squeezing their entire business into 60 seconds. And it does not always lead to better conversations. Business Leaders Breakfast will take a different approach.

You will still have an opportunity to introduce yourself, but the focus will be on what you are working towards and what connection, idea or opportunity would help you move forward.

❌No polished performance required.
❌No pressure to be the loudest person in the room.
❌No lengthy explanation of everything you sell.
✔️Just a welcoming opportunity to tell people who you are, what you are developing and how the room might be able to help.
Because the best connections often start with a good question, not a perfect pitch.

Business Leaders Breakfast is launching this September at Hurds Hill in Langport.
Local Connections. Wider Opportunities.

Message me to join the early-interest list and be among the first to receive the confirmed date and booking link.

17/07/2026

and I have something exciting to share…

This September, we will be launching the brand-new Business Leaders Breakfast at Hurds Hill in Langport.

Business Leaders Breakfast is being created to bring together people from across the business community for relaxed but purposeful networking, practical conversations and stronger connections.

And when we say business leaders, we do not just mean directors, senior executives or people running large organisations. If you are building a business, growing an idea, supporting customers, managing people, creating opportunities, solving problems or helping an organisation move forward, you are helping to lead business growth. You belong in the room.

Each monthly breakfast will include a breakfast roll and hot drink, informal networking, focused introductions, constructive business conversations, an Ask the Room session and a short practical business insight. There will be no lengthy sales pitches, compulsory membership or pressure to pass referrals. The aim is simple: to create a welcoming space where everyone leaves with a useful connection, a new idea or an opportunity to explore.

We are delighted to confirm that Business Leaders Breakfast will launch at Hurds Hill on 22 September, starting at 8.00 am, with further events planned for 20 October, 17 November, 19 January, 16 February and 16 March. There will be no December meeting.

Business Leaders Breakfast - Local Connections. Wider Opportunities.

More information and booking details will be coming very soon.

Comment below or send me a message to be added to the priority list.

Hurds Hill

03/07/2026

I was at the Ignite Somerset conference this week and I came away thinking about something that I have not been able to put down since.

We heard from representatives of nuclear and renewable energy organisations, genuinely major players, who said clearly and directly that they want to work with local SMEs. That social value is a real part of what they are trying to build into their supply chains. That there is a genuine appetite for it. And then we looked at the procurement frameworks those same organisations use. And there is a problem. A significant one.

The tender processes are built for organisations that already have contracts. They ask for proof of turnover that an SME can only demonstrate after it has won significant work. They require accounts and financial evidence that reflects a scale most small businesses have not yet reached, precisely because they have not yet had access to the kind of transformational opportunity these tenders represent. They take hundreds of hours to complete properly, which for an SME is not a minor inconvenience but a genuine business risk, because that time is not available to be spent on existing clients and billable work. And after all of that investment of time and resource, the probability of success is low enough that the exercise becomes very hard to justify.

The result is predictable. The SMEs that could bring innovation, local knowledge, flexibility, and genuine social value to these projects cannot afford to participate. The businesses that can meet the criteria are the ones that already have the scale, the resource, and the existing relationships. The framework designed to open up opportunity is actually consolidating it.

I am not suggesting the people designing these frameworks are acting in bad faith. I think they are working within systems that were built for a different purpose and have not yet been redesigned to serve the social value ambitions that procurement policy is now being asked to deliver.

What would help is a human in the loop. Someone with the authority and the brief to look at an application from a small business and say: this organisation cannot demonstrate the turnover we have asked for because no one has yet given them a contract of this size, but here is their track record, here is what they can do, here is why they represent a better fit for what we are actually trying to achieve than the larger organisation that ticked all the boxes on the form. That judgment call is what the framework is removing, and it is the judgment call that would actually deliver the social value these organisations say they want.

I am raising this not as a complaint but as a genuine ask to the people in the room who have the ability to change it. The South West has extraordinary SME talent. That is fixable. It just needs someone to decide to fix it.