02/06/2026
A former friend once told me I’d never make a successful business owner because of my nature.
If we’re going to label it - I’m a Type B, Vata, neuro-spicy, messy creative.. and although I’m a very grounded woman (thanks yoga), I’m also simultaneously all over the place 🤸🏼♀️✨
Apparently business was reserved for the organised, structured people. The people with plans and spreadsheets and clear direction. The Pitta people.
And I took on that belief for a while, because I’ve spent most of my life feeling a little different.
Yet funnily enough, business offers kept coming my way.. wasn’t even the first yoga studio I was approached to buy.
I’ve always been creative, spontaneous and full of ideas. I’m also someone with ADHD who forgets time exists, struggles to focus, gets distracted easily and doesn’t naturally thrive in structure.
For a long time I thought success would arrive when I finally got my s**t together. When I became more organised. More disciplined. More like somebody else.
And for too long, I whipped myself pretty hard for not being that person 🫠
But coming up to two years of owning my yoga studio, I’ve realised something - my nature was never the problem.
The problem was the belief that I couldn’t make it work in my weird, wild and wonderful way. In fact, some of the greatest strengths I’ve brought to this business have come from those exact qualities.
My creativity has been magic when I’ve needed to find solutions fast. My willingness to take big risks. My capacity to pivot when things aren’t working. And my natural ability to build community and flourish in social spaces.
I’ll tell you what, things started changing when I stopped trying to force myself into someone else’s version of success and started building a life and business around the way I naturally operate.
I’m clever enough to get support in the areas that aren’t my strengths, and at the same time, I don’t let my labels stop me from locking in on the stuff I find hard either.
So sis, maybe the thing you’ve been trying to fix about yourself isn’t actually what’s holding you back. Maybe the thing you