The spark* blog
Thoughtful insights for socially responsible entrepreneurs who give a ****! Honest conversations about impact, wellbeing and creating sustainable change.
Three steps back
Most founder advice assumes you’ve got enough in reserve to act on it. Often you don’t. This piece follows three founders who worked out that their real task was building the conditions underneath the work - recovery time, a space of their own, people actually building something similar - the unglamorous layer everything else sits on.
There is always more to your story...
My grandmother sold her business in her early eighties. She was a socially responsible entrepreneur before the phrase had been invented - and the blueprint she handed me is one I'm still following today. This is the story behind Ellipsis Coaching - where it came from, why it exists, and why the work matters to me as much as it does to the people I do it with.
Same desk, same thinking
Something keeps coming up in my coaching conversations. Founders who are stuck - not because they lack ideas or capability, but because they've been staring at the same four walls for too long.
Here's the thing: where you think matters as much as what you think about.
In this post, I share three founder stories - and a simple question that most of us never actually ask ourselves deliberately.