🚫 “I never want to be on social media” 🚫 “I never want to launch a podcast” 🚫 “I never want to run my own business” Kirsty van den Bulk has said all of the above at some point in her life. And yet, after a squiggly career path that’s seen her appear in an…
How do you achieve the life you love when the thing you want most isn’t something you can put a timestamp on? 🤔 This was the question that had Nicola Walsh in a spin. Because all the while she was focused on having another baby, she was putting other things in her life on hold.…
How do you make money doing something you love? Especially if you’re in an industry in which supposedly ‘only the lucky few’ make the £££. 💰 This was one question Lois Lelland was grappling with when she arrived at TechPixies. But having just recorded and mixed her debut EP, she was also struggling to know how…
Doing something you love and getting paid for it – it’s the dream, isn’t it? Catherine Speakman has taken her passion for the hidden corners of her home county of Dorset and her skill as a mapmaker (honed after working as a cartographer for the Ministry of Defence) and has, quite organically, grown a brilliant…
Pants. Not something you’d imagine might give you the feel-good factor. But for our chief TechPixie Joy and pants champ Sarah Jordan of Y.O.U Underwear, pants should have a purpose. And they should be brave with a touch of sparkle. ✨ We’re always popping on our ‘brave pants’ here at TechPixies. But up until now,…
There’s a reason we call Paula Tadzik ‘Magic Tadzik’. And it isn’t just because whenever there’s a TechPixie in a tech pickle, she’s right there offering a helping hand. It’s because Paula saw redundancy after 17 years in the same job as an opportunity to make her dream of living and working abroad a reality.…