Hey there, if it’s your first time visiting then a massive hello - you are very welcome here.
Whether you’re a quietly ambitious founder, accidental leader, creative or changemaker, or navigating a life change, you’re in the right place. Most people here have built something meaningful… but somewhere along the way, it started to cost them.
I’m Lee, curator of this little corner of substack, (un)learning in public and generally shaking off the BS that has kept me conditioned, small and not quite feeling myself.
By way of introduction, I’m a 40-something, child-free dog-mum, living in Essex; though I was born in London, spent my teen years in North Wales and went to uni in Leeds before returning back to London to embark on a 20 year career in communications.
A honeymoon in Hawaii in 2019 led to me quitting my corporate job with no plan. A diet of Netflix bingeing and unplanned life stuff happened and I decided that I didn’t want to return to the constricts of employment. Instead, I qualified as a coach and launched my business sunday skies.
It’s been hard transitioning to - and having the responsibility for - running my own business. The first year felt like a hobby, I was completely naive. Years two, three and four I’d figured stuff out a bit more, but the 9-5 (and some) mindset was well and truly ingrained and I found myself back dealing with corporate BS just in another guise.
To be frank ‘leadership’ gave me the ick. And so I embarked on an exploration to figure out who I was and what type of business I felt energised to show up for.
What’s (Un)Learning?
I genuinely thought I’d invented this phrase a couple of years ago 🤦🏼♀️. I’d had a particularly powerful coaching session and noted that it wasn’t about learning new stuff, I needed to spend time unlearning all the beliefs and rules and restrictions that I (and society) had placed on me.
Turns out the word has been around a bit longer than my ‘invention’, but it’s still one that feels really personal and best sums up the inner work I do.
I started writing here to fuel my creativity, reclaim my personality and discover my voice. It was something that I initially kept away from my business-self - because y’know the ick - and as I’ve grown in this space I’ve realised that my life and my work is all about (un)learning and I can only show up fully if I embrace all sides of me.
So this space is where I unlearn in public. Where I share the experiments, the musings and the things that make me, me :).
I also hope this space is somewhere you can escape to and do your own (un)learning.
Most of the people in this community care deeply about the world around them. They want their work and life to matter - to leave people, places or systems better than they found them. But they’re realising they can’t do meaningful work while following outdated rules that drain them.
(Un)learning’s not self-help BS. It’s practical, reflective, slightly rebellious work that frees you up to lead, create and be in a way that feels like you - not a manicured version of you that feels faker than an instagram bot!
What to expect
🔎 Personal stories and insights into my (un)learning experiments
📸 Prompts and challenges that will get us thinking differently
🧶 And some fun stuff - places I’ve been, what I’ve read, my obsession with Murder, She Wrote - because I don’t want this space to feel like a corporate stuffy newsletter that takes itself too seriously (and because Jessica Fletcher always has something to teach us).
If you fancy having a look around first, here are some pieces you might find interesting:
Fancy getting more involved?
To get you started, as a gift for subscribing, you’ll receive my free 30-Day FLIP challenge → a guide with 30 prompts to help you (un)learn the lies, reclaim your voice and start building a business (and life) that feels like you.
Free subscribers will get regular letters from me - at least two a month.
If you want to join my paid community of likeminded (un)learners you’ll get:
💥 The really personal downloads (because vulnerability costs)
💥 Writing prompts and other tools from my coaching and NLP kits so that you can do the inner work as well
💥 Access to my full archive
💥 First-dibs on new services and offers, including opportunities to beta-test them at a reduced rate, so that you can go deeper with your (un)learning.
Think of this space as somewhere you can begin to ask the questions and try things out.
If you want more 1:1 support, here’s how you can (un)learn with me…
If you want to explore this lightly → The (Un)learning Lab
If you want to untangle one rule → The (Un)learning Intervention
If you want to reclaim your identity → The (Un)learning Blueprint 🌟
And if you want to have a chat about what’s the best fit for you right now book a free call and let’s see what might work.
I’m so pleased that you’ve found me on here. I’d love to know a bit more about you? What brings you here? What you’d like to (un)learn? Are you a fan of MSW as well? If not, what helps you to switch off and have fun outside of the must-dos and should-dos? Introduce yourself to me and the community in the comments below 👇🏼.
Lee x
