Author: Jennifer Davy

Your Pink Glittery Muscle And no, it’s not your vagina… this time. I was raised on the notion if you don’t ask, you don’t get, and yes, I probably need to reflect on that one as an adult. Why, you might ask? Well, the man who bred this belief in me is my dad, and he is a pusher of boundaries, a chancer, if you will. (Tongue rammed in my cheek here, FYI.) But he is right to a large extent. Recently, we were having a coffee together, and the car garage called me to tell me my car was…

They Liked You Better When You Were Struggling You came away from coffee with her feeling smaller than when you arrived. You came away from coffee with her feeling smaller than when you arrived. Let me tell you why I can say that with such certainty. I’ve spent the best part of twenty years working with women, the last few of them coaching one to one, and what I’ve found again and again is that they feel the thing draining them long before they have the words for it.  That’s what I do, I give them the language they were…

The Burnout No One Sees in High-Performing Women By Jennifer Davy  You would know if you were slowly burning out. Right? Because burnt out women can’t function, but you are holding the whole thing together, so actually, you must be absolutely fine. I have this kind of conversation with almost every high-performing woman I work with, and that’s in over six years of coaching. But it is never at the beginning of our conversations because she is oftentimes too busy telling me how ‘fine’ she is; a little tired perhaps, a little in need of a holiday but good overall.…