There’s nothing I love more than being side-by-side with inspiring, ambitious and creative individuals. To get a feel for what it’s like to work together, you can read some of my clients’ own words about their experience below.

I work in a really personal way and I know that your situation is unique. So the best way forward is to send me a message and let me know where you’re at and we’ll take things from there together.

“She’s increased my confidence 100-fold. I love her no-nonsense, time sensitive approach that hones in on the issues at hand and supports you with goal-orientated, empowering tips and advice. She’s a powerful person to have in your corner and you’ll always come away from your sessions feeling refreshed and inspired!”

— Fenella | Arts Producer

“With every interaction I invariably feel more positive and enthusiastic about my work. She is remarkably intuitive and quickly led me to several revelatory ‘ah-ha’ moments, which improved both my mindset & productivity. She is attentive and genuinely cares about my progress, offering support for day-to-day decision making, as well as the broader course-correcting of my business and goals. Having Fi in my corner has brought a new found energy to my work and business, and I can’t recommend her enough!”

— Tom | Illustrator & Designer

“As a highly intelligent, dyslexic artist with a fiercely creative mind, I’ve never met anyone who has understood the mechanics of my brain with such accuracy and understanding. Fi has enabled me to access the power of my creative thinking and apply it to the practical aspects of my life and business I find most difficult, revealing that I can problem solve and innovate in my own way.”

— Hannah | Director, Writer & Performer

“I came to coaching with Fi because I was coming across some stumbling blocks in how I talked about the services I offered online and presented my value. For a long time, the self-employed part of my business was a small one – I worked partly for myself, and partly for another company, and so I found most of my clients through people I had worked with already. So my clients mostly knew me, and what I had to offer. Having become fully freelance, it became a lot more important to communicate clearly what I offer, at what price points, which is the point that I realised I had never had professional advice on this side of things, and could definitely do with some.

I am so glad I chose to work with Fi. She is incredibly insightful and really gets right away what you want to achieve. She works at two levels: firstly on a more subtle one, where she helped me to really pin down how I was growing my business, to what ends and why. Working with Fi I felt a lot more empowered about my offering and how I should talk about it.

The other level is incredibly practical: Fi helps you to get things done. She has all of these tools up her sleeves, which help you to put things in practice, talk it out and do the work. She knows when to listen, and she knows when to advise; in fact it is seamless in Fi. Fi is unique to me because she is a creative professional herself and yet she is also incredibly good at the behind-the-scenes stuff that creative types fall down on so often. It was hugely valuable to me, to work with someone with such a strong skillset who is also completely creative in the way that she thinks. She understood everything I wanted to achieve intuitively, and gave gentle and yet incredibly useful advice that has really helped me take my business to the next level.

The other thing about Fi is that she is a little bit magic. She is such an incredibly positive person, and it was a genuine joy to collaborate with her, discuss ideas together, and come up with new ways of working. She has a real energy about her, and it is infectious. When you work on your own, it is a real bonus to team up with someone like Fi. She re-energised me, and she helped to give me a new framework for working, as well as a new perspective on what I am doing as a professional, for who, and why. All if which is invaluable, and I couldn’t recommend her more.”

— Anna | Writer, Editor & Writer’s Mentor

“Felt pumped afterwards! Fiona’s questions and prompting are so sharp that she helped me see stuff I didn’t know… like waking up a bit and sharpening the focus.”

— Annie | Yoga Teacher

“Working with Fiona is a genuine joy. She radiates fun whilst also managing to generate much needed calm and focus. Fiona has a fresh way of looking at what you want to achieve and what might be blocking you with lots of powerful exercises and ideas to help you find and steer a clearer path to where you want to be. Her style is very individual centred and it is amazing to have her in your corner especially if you are someone who has become accustomed to shouldering responsibility alone. If you are feeling a bit stuck or even a little lost I would highly recommend connecting with Fi.”

— Lisa | Theatre Executive Director

“Fi Gregory is a wonderful person and coach. From the very first meeting with Fi I felt understood and was filled with confidence that she could help me make the changes I wanted to make in my life. She was great at listening, reflecting things back and then making a plan. Having felt a bit stuck and overwhelmed she helped me move things forward. I can testify that now I’m in a different place in my life and have achieved the things I wanted to through my time with Fi. She is intelligent, positive, fun and a great cheer-leader. I recommend Fi to everyone!”

— Rhona | Actor & Yoga Teacher

”Fi is a brilliant practitioner of her craft and I highly recommend her services. During my time with Fi, I have achieved clarity around my goals, received support with managing a creative life and all that it entails from the micro of scheduling to the macro of what I want to explore and why. She’s been integral to developing my process, injecting it with a bit of fun as well as self care in manageable chunks and she’s adjusted her approach and recommendations to suit my evolving practice and life circumstances. I look forward to continuing to work with her on this journey, having someone like Fi in your corner is truly a gift worth investing in.”

— Amanda | Writer

“I came to Fi for practical help and advice, because I realised that as the brand had started to really grow, I found myself unable to keep up with all that was required of me, unsure about how to organise my growing business, and I was starting to feel swamped and uncertain, which then made me lose direction and took all the fun and creative part out of it.

When I started to work with Fi it really was like a breath of fresh air! She has a way of immediately making you feel good about yourself, and inspired again. Just being able to share with her what had been going on with the business & how it had evolved and essentially "mind dump" everything that I had going on in my head made me feel so much better. We worked through countless obstacles together, and having her there felt like having a team mate, someone on my side who really had my best interests at heart. Its almost been like a therapy I would say, geared around helping me to feel better, more confident, and generally more inspired and therefore able to be more productive.

I love the practical tools that she suggested to me, they have been lifesavers & timesavers, which is so important to me as I have quite a limited time schedule as a mother to twin boys! Initially I was unsure about investing in a creative coach, mainly because of the cost involved, but honestly I would not have been able to achieve alone what I achieved through working with her, that I am sure of. Fi from the get go is like a team member, and it was a really great experience working with her.”

— Isabel | Fashion Designer

“Working with Fi kept me motivated and sane in the first year of starting my own business. She really took the time to get to know me and understand how I see myself and the world - and therefore how I work. Her advice is practical and she is very hands on. She is empathetic and understanding, but also called my bullshit. I really feel like she was - and still is- invested in me doing well. She is a force to be reckoned with and having Fi in your corner will benefit you 100%!”

— Meriel | Holistic Coach, Massage Therapist & Meditation Teacher

“I had one session with Fiona and I honestly credit this one hour with the immediate successful job interview which followed. It’s not just practical advice - she challenged me to think about myself and what I actually want from my career in a philosophical light, and the difference it made to both my application and my interview was transformative. I would recommend her services not only to people in the process of applying for jobs, but also to anyone who is after greater clarity in their ambitions. Thank you Fi!”

— Caro | Arts Manager

“I’d been feeling a bit lost in my career path and didn’t know how to take it to the next level. Initially, I signed up for a 3 month package but when those three months came to an end I couldn’t imagine being without Fi’s support so I have continued with an ongoing package. I feel totally re-energised and a lot more focused , much clearer on how my career is developing and Fi’s support plays such a big part in all of this. She really gets me.

As a freelancer, it can be difficult to stay on track with all the day to day decisions and stuff that needs to be dealt with. I used to get so stuck in my head or let things build up because I didn’t have the head space for the business side of things whilst I was working intensively on productions and projects.

Having Fi on Voxer is amazing! Being able to contact her and chat means I can air any ideas or problems, as and when I need to. I get to enjoy the creative side of my job so much more as I don’t feel weighed down by the admin stuff. Having someone on my team to share the load with but also the good stuff with, is a game changer when you’re going at it alone. I love knowing she’s there if and when I need her.

The sessions themselves are a good mix of hands on stuff as well as a longer term look at what I want and how I’m going to get there. I like the role play exercises we do which help me prep for industry meetings and negotiations. I feel so much more confident talking and writing about what I do and doing stuff like negotiating contracts and connecting with people and theatres I’d love to work with.

Fi has also helped me create some simple systems so I can stay on top of my finances throughout the year, as opposed to letting it all build up to the dreaded end of year tax return! And although I’m not driven by money, it feels pretty good to set and meet income targets. Fi is so good at acting quickly and giving me manageable, actionable solutions to things. Taking things one step at a time making me feel like I have more control of the things I’m doing. Having Fi on my team has been such a good investment both for my career and for myself as a creative. I’m really happy with the progress I have made and continue to make through our work together.”

— Jess | Movement Director

“Each time I meet with Fi, I learn something about myself. She has this amazing ability to quickly and incisively connect different areas of my creative work so that I gain insights into who I am as an artist. She tends to my whole self, honouring the sometimes messy reality of life while holding space to grow my ideas. There's a balance between the inner work necessary to nurture creativity and tangible actions. I leave sessions with a clarity of next steps, which feel both manageable and meaningful, and a grounded sense of confidence.”

— Lydia | Writer & Arts Manager

“Before working with Fiona I was pretty much stuck. I was struggling to make even the first steps towards daily routines. I had lost my sense of passion and reason for existence. I knew in my heart that something needed to shift and that I was unable to do this alone. I found myself saying to myself and others the phrase, ‘What is the point?’. This stagnation was having a profound impact on my work and my personal life.

Work wise I had completely lost confidence as a creative and as a performer. I had stopped writing, ideas weren’t coming and on the occasions I’d be invited to perform I would accept but then pull out on the day, sometimes due to panic attacks. So I either spiralled further or re built my life starting from scratch.

After my sessions with Fiona things shifted hugely for me. In fact they began to shift as soon as I started to work with her which was a life saver and that’s no exaggeration. My confidence grew, I began to believe in myself again and my mission became clear again and most importantly the joy and excitement to be here on my mission burst back into life. I began to laugh again and to get great pleasure out of everything. I had remembered myself. And not just that, which is huge, I had collected many tools and strategies to support myself with on a daily basis, especially tailored to suit me, by Fiona’s incredible guidance, encouragement and experience.

I have developed an unshakeable confidence that if I were to spiral out of control or to stray and drift away from meaning in my life again I would always be able to find my way back, taking simple, effective steps and sometimes by simply just accepting myself and my journey. I’m so glad I had the will to take action and to work with Fiona when I did. I have made so many fun and exciting things since then and really enjoyed the process. I’m really proud of my progress so far and extremely grateful for Fiona.”

— Marny | Performer

“Fi is brilliant! I really needed help getting some practical perspective and Fi was incredible - supportive and confidence-boosting. She gave me the energy back that I was severely lacking! Everything felt so simple and a lot clearer having spent time with her.”

— Lily

“Fi helped me to navigate my way out of a very big rut I found myself in with my business. My biggest issue was having so many ideas and not completing any of them as I was so focused on perfection! The unrealistic pressure to make everything perfect and the constant questioning just lead to me running out of energy! Working with Fi helped me to see what was causing my over thinking and allowed me find that beginners energy which enabled my creativity to flow again! Yay!! Fi has the best energy, is super supportive and basically the best cheerleader you could want!!”

— Sarah | Reflexologist

“Working with Fi really helped me to stay motivated and retain momentum when launching my business. Fi has lots of practical ideas and sets you 'homework' to keep you moving forward towards the end goal. Most importantly, Fi has a never-ending supply of optimism and enthusiasm, which is especially important when you might not have any left. Fi is a great supporter and motivator to have on your team.”

— Christy | Web Designer

“I’ve worked with Fiona as a coach for just over a year, and her support, guidance and insight has been transformational for both my personal development and my business’. In the few years before I started working with Fi I had set up a YouTube channel and digital product business called Better Creating that had begun to grow into a significant side hustle alongside my freelance career as a theatre director. I love both areas of my work, but needed help to work on where best to focus my energy and effort, and how to align it all with my personal life. Fi has helped me not only clarify what matters most and set a personal vision - but also to streamline and focus Better Creating into my most profitable and enjoyable business alongside my theatre directing career.

Working with Fi helps me make better, more strategic decisions, and has given me more confidence and investment in the direction I want to take life and creativity. She has also taught me how to structure and organise my work and money into a serious business, and even how to better market my products and services to grow profits. Over the last 12 months I’ve taken on new team members, launched new products, taken on a studio space, created a business plan and streamlined my daily workflow.

What’s most satisfying though is that her approach to communication and coaching has made it feel I have a much bigger team behind me supporting my work! It’s like having a close, critical friend helping me make the right decisions - but all on my own terms. She’s great & I’m sure we’ll continue a relationship for a while!”

— Simon | Theatre Director & Digital Creator

“I had known for several years that I really wanted to start my own business as a Leadership Coach, but kept on coming up with reasons why I couldn't go down that path. I spoken with other friends who had started their own businesses as well as other Executive Coaches but really wasn't sure how to take the first step. After a single call with Fi I felt like I had concrete next steps and felt an abundance of confidence that I had been lacking to embark on my venture. Fi really kept me accountable, celebrated my successes, listened deeply to my fears, and was with me at every turn. After launching my business with her support over the course of 4 months I landed my first paying client!”

— Victoria | Leadership Coach

“Fi was hugely helpful in helping me to work out my next steps when my work was at a cross-road. She’s warm, encouraging, light-hearted and funny. In the past I’ve felt pressure working with coaches to come up with huge goals and progress in a short time, but with Fi I could move at my own pace and felt supported all the way. Thank you!”

— Anya | Yoga Teacher

“Working with Fi has been invaluable for my business. Before I started with Fi, I’d been struggling with how to bring my business together, including how to create a website, pitch what I offer and set my rates. Fi has supported me with how to offer and market ‘bundles’, discounts and introductory offers. And when I have a crisis of confidence with emailing clients, she’s been there to offer me constructive feedback and well researched advice into what to charge and how to communicate this to my clients. Recently I’d needed support in raising my prices and Fi worked with me to help me feel just in doing so and then how to share this price increase positively with my clients. My website is now accessible, easy to amend and most importantly I feel at the centre of my business. I couldn’t have got to where I am now without Fi’s support, advice and care.”

— Sam | Movement & Wellness Faciliator

“Working with Fi had far more benefits than I could have imagined and is one of the best investments I’ve made in my creative work. Looking for creative strategy and streamlining Fi also supplied crucial business insight as well as helping me to focus and prioritise. All of this in a holistic approach which left me feeling supported with a clear path ahead. Her fun and enthusiastic nature is brilliantly paired with her efficient and effective approach to making progress with follow up emails and action plans. I couldn’t recommend working with Fi more.”

— Clare

“I loved talking to you. You managed to get straight to the heart of things right away and your advice was clear and manageable.”

— Francesca | Singer

“I knew I wanted a new job, but felt totally lost and anxious as to what that job should be and how I was going to get it. Before working with Fiona, I was scatter-gunning my applications - all different roles and all over the country. I was also playing it safe applying for sideways and backward moves. Fiona was quickly able to calm me down and help me identify why it wasn’t working in my current role and what my strengths and values are. She gave me the push and confidence I needed to start streamlining my job search. The interview prep work we did was amazing. I smashed it and got a new job in a managerial position with a much bigger salary. I’m so excited to start! This woman is amazing! Highly recommend coaching from Fiona. I would be entirely lost without her and I am starting off 2019 strong because of her help. Thank you, Fiona!”

— Gemma | Theatre Professional

“My coaching with Fi has had a hugely positive impact on my confidence and the way I think about my relationship with work. I leave our sessions feeling lighter as well as more focused and ready for the tasks ahead. It’s great to have someone firmly in your corner whenever you need.”

— Abi | Theatre Producer

“I came to Fiona because I felt there was something missing, perhaps slightly bored and deflated with the repetitiveness in my life. Fiona was welcoming, and her friendly smile and good sense of humour made me feel comfortable from the outset. After our first session came to a close, I immediately felt a weight lifted. Fiona set me realistic project work, and followed this with an email containing homework and articles that she felt I would find beneficial. I’m now making more time for myself and trying new things, which has eliminated the boredom I had been feeling and really helped to spice things up.”

— Daniel

“As a new solopreneur, I found it difficult to ground my creative aspirations with business acumen. Fi introduced me to playful ways for harnessing ideas as well as sound business advice for pathways towards success. I feel lucky to have worked with Fi; her boundless enthusiasm is uplifting and her expertise reliable and reassuring. Whatever your endeavour, I can highly recommend Fi to anyone in need of inspiration, motivation and growth.”

— Kathryn

“Fi is a fantastic coach, so supportive and encouraging. Her thoughtful and considered approach allows for open and honest discussion. We had some really helpful conversations, where I was able to unpack some complex challenges, reflect on my achievements and set realistic goals in between sessions and going forwards. Fi really helped me to re-focus my energy on the positives, she comes highly recommended!! It has been truly beneficial.”

— Laura | Arts Manager

“I sort of felt like I was drowning before we met. I felt like I had multiple conflicting ambitions before, but the way we talked it through and laid it out was exactly what I needed to focus.”

— Khaz | Arts Professional

“It’s really enjoyable being coached by Fi because she is such a positive and encouraging person. She helped me sort through lots of different ideas that were buzzing around my head, and gave me confidence to take a new approach to work. We spoke a lot about authenticity and reflected on how my values can lead my career choices. This was such a refreshing approach and her energy must have brushed off on me because I’m feeling really excited about what’s to come. It’s been such good value for money and an investment in myself and my business.”

— Laura | Theatre Co-Founder & Executive Director

“My main issue is having lots of ideas and a tendency to get really excited and distracted by the bigger picture - without considering how I’m actually going to get there. I think most people think of coaching as being useful when you’re feeling a bit stuck or unsure what to do next, but it turns out coaching is just as important when you’ve already got a business in motion. Being given “homework” and then having follow up sessions, made sure I stayed motivated and on track.”

— Lauren

“Working with Fi has been transformational. She has allowed me to tap into my creative process, gain clarity on what I wanted out of life and design a business that fits around me and my values. Whatever ideas you have about your business, the truth is, you have it within you and Fi will support you to bring it to life!”

— Laureen | GP & Coach