Joanne Pagett
You Built the Business. Now Let’s Rebuild You. | Energy & Performance Coach for Women in Business & Female Founders Over 40 | StrongHer FAB Method. Joanne is a Multi-Award-Winning Wellness Coach, ICF Certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Health & Nutrition Diploma holder, Menopause Wellness Practitioner and Certified Business Strategist. She brings the rigour of a corporate strategist and the warmth of someone who genuinely gets it, because she has been exactly where you are now.
You might not be burnt out. You might just be done.
Hey Reader Quick one, because I've just published something I think you'll want to read. A February survey of 3,000+ women workers found nearly half report burnout. But here's the number that stopped me: over 60% of professionals aged 40+ have considered a major career change in recent years. That's a majority experience being treated like a personal failing, and I think a lot of us are misdiagnosing it. So this week's newsletter makes a distinction that matters: burnout vs. recalibration....
Have You Accepted Who You Are?
Hey Reader I'm not perfect. Not even close. I swear more than a coach probably should. I fuck up, regularly, in ways big and small. Some days I eat the wrong stuff, on purpose, no regrets in the moment (the regrets tend to arrive around 4 pm, but that's a different newsletter). I've put on a few pounds over the last few months. My gym routine, the one I tell everyone else to protect like it's sacred, has quietly fallen apart while I wasn't looking. The old me would have spiralled about that....
The kind of tired that doesn't show up on a sick note
Hey Reader How are you doing today? Middle of the week or is a Woooooo Wednesday? I want to talk about tierdness, because there's a very specific kind of tired that doesn't show up on a sick note. It's not the kind where you call in, pull the duvet over your head and eat biscuits until Thursday. It's subtler than that. It's the kind where you're still hitting targets, still showing up for everyone, still the one holding it all together, and from the outside, nobody would know anything was...
The flash sale that has nothing to do with your jeans
Hey Reader Somewhere around mid to end of June, summer stops being a season and becomes a deadline. Suddenly, there's a case to pack, a flight to catch, and a small voice asking whether your "holiday energy" is going to be the kind that lasts past the airport lounge or the kind that needs three days to recover from itself. Here's the thing I see in almost every woman I work with: she's running two separate conversations in her head. One is about the business, her career, targets, decisions,...
Phew what a scorcher! Your heatwave survival guide (the unsexy bits that actually matter)
Hey Reader Phew what a scorcher! Britain is having a moment. The forecast looks like a holiday brochure, and half the country is currently googling “is it normal to sweat this much.” Funny? Yes. Serious? Also yes. Heatwaves aren’t just uncomfortable. They hit energy, concentration, sleep and mood, hard. And if your hormones already throw the odd heatwave from the inside, courtesy of perimenopause or menopause, this week is basically Mother Nature doubling down. Rude! So instead of my usual...
What burnout really feels like (it’s not what you think)
Hey Reader I started writing this in a departure lounge in Denpasar, Bali, with a chilled Gin & Tonic in hand, a glowing tan, and more emotional than I had the right to be. I’m getting ready for the 19-hour flight back home. I’ve just had fourteen days of properly switching off. No email, which is why I’ve been a bit quiet; no business calls, just the ability to have some “me” time. Sea swims, lounging around the pools, naps I didn’t apologise for. A husband who got to see me laugh again...
June starts here (and it starts with your morning)
Hey Reader June. A brand new month, this month here's the question I want you to sit with for just a moment is this; What if the version of you who finishes this month feeling strong, clear and properly energised, started tomorrow morning? Not with a complete lifestyle overhaul, and certainly not with a new programme or a 5am alarm. Just with six small things, done consistently. But they do start when your alarm goes off. I shared these on Facebook this morning and it's clear that these are...
I need to say something most coaches won't say to you
Hey Reader I want to say something to you today that most people in the health and wellness space won't say. You are not doing it wrong. You're exercising, eating well and managing your stress as best you can. You are doing everything you were ever told to do, but now your body is not responding the way it used to. This is because nobody has told you why, and now you're quietly started to wonder if the problem is you. It isn't. The rules changed. And you were never given the new ones. WHAT'S...
You don't need another DIET!!
Hey Reader Summer is coming, yippee. This means beach is coming, maybe not so yippee. This is why I wanted to send you something today. Not a sales pitch, not a "transform your body in 14 days" thing. Just a gift, because I've been thinking about you and I know what time of year it is. If you're a bit like me, you've got the holiday in the diary. I'm heading off next month. You've sorted out your summer clothes and they are now are quietly judging you from the wardrobe. Then you hear it,...
Broccoli, Biscuts & Calories!
Hey Reader If you think that Calories matter more than Macro & Micronutrients for body composition and wellbeing, it's time to think again!Let me guess. At some point in your life, you've stood in a supermarket aisle, squinting at the back of a cereal box, trying to work out whether 347 calories is good, bad, or entirely irrelevant, and feeling vaguely judged by the granola.First, let's retire the calorie mythA calorie is a unit of energy. That's all it is. It tells you nothing about the...
You Built the Business. Now Let’s Rebuild You. | Energy & Performance Coach for Women in Business & Female Founders Over 40 | StrongHer FAB Method. Joanne is a Multi-Award-Winning Wellness Coach, ICF Certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Health & Nutrition Diploma holder, Menopause Wellness Practitioner and Certified Business Strategist. She brings the rigour of a corporate strategist and the warmth of someone who genuinely gets it, because she has been exactly where you are now.