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Please DON’T become one of my Performance Partners… …if you think the answer to workplace performance is asking already ...
03/09/2026

Please DON’T become one of my Performance Partners…

…if you think the answer to workplace performance is asking already exhausted people to simply work harder.

I’m growing the Performance Microbreak Platform™ and I’m looking for a small number of Performance Partners to grow it with me.

People who believe what I believe:

Movement doesn’t interrupt performance.
It improves it.

60 seconds away from the screen isn’t lost productivity.

It can mean returning with more energy, better focus, less stress and fewer aches and pains.

And importantly, the Platform measures what happens - tracking changes in focus, energy, stress, mood and physical comfort, rather than simply counting how many breaks somebody takes.

This isn’t another wellbeing initiative people forget exists.

I believe this is where the future of work is heading:

Small interventions.
Built into the working day.
Measured by their impact on human performance.

And I want people who are excited about taking that into organisations with me.

Performance Partners will receive their own referral link and earn commission from organisations they introduce that become paying customers.

These are paid opportunities.

I’m particularly interested in speaking to people working in HR, Occupational Health, L&D, ergonics, physiotherapy, workplace wellbeing and leadership development.

But values matter more to me than your job title.

Do you believe getting people to stop for 60 seconds could actually help an organisation get MORE out of the other 59 minutes?

If your answer is yes, comment PARTNER or DM me.

I think we should talk.

02/09/2026

**We've spent 30 years making work faster.

So why are we still exhausted?**

When computers started appearing in workplaces in the early 90s, my dad wanted nothing to do with them.

He was a lawyer.

He even threatened to quit rather than use one.

But eventually, even Dad adapted.

Computers made things faster.

Then email did.

Then smartphones.

Then Teams and Zoom.

Now AI promises to save us hours.

And yet the latest Mental Health UK Burnout Report found that 91% of UK adults experienced high or extreme pressure or stress in the last year.

One in five workers took time off because of stress-related poor mental health.

And the biggest workplace stressor?

High or increased workload.

So perhaps technology was never the problem.

What we do with the capacity it creates is.

If AI saves someone an hour and we respond by giving them another hour's work, we haven't improved human performance.

We've just increased throughput.

So here's one solution I want leaders to think about:

For every AI productivity measure, add a human performance measure.

Don't just ask:

How many hours did AI save?

Also ask:

Are people less overloaded?

Are they making better decisions?

Are they finishing work with more energy?

Do they feel safe saying when the workload is too much?

Because AI is about to make work considerably faster.

Compassionate leadership needs to make sure humans don't have to become machines to keep up.

If 30 years of technology haven't made us less exhausted, why do we think the next technology automatically will?

You can’t come back from a break refreshed if you never actually switch off. This bench is one of my non-negotiables. It...
31/08/2026

You can’t come back from a break refreshed if you never actually switch off.

This bench is one of my non-negotiables.

It sits on the coastal path between Portishead and Clevedon.

Chewy beside me.
The sea in front of me.
Wales in the distance, where I’ll usually give my family a wave.

No emails.
No rushing.
No need to be productive.

Just the sound of the waves, a few birds singing and absolutely no idea how long I’ve been sitting there.

I’ve sat on this bench in every season.

And it’s beautiful every single time.

This is my peace.

This Bank Holiday, I know not everyone gets to switch off completely. Some of you will be working.

But being busy doesn’t mean every minute has to belong to somebody else.

So whether you've had three days off or you're working through them, protect something for yourself.

Then take that habit into September.

September has a habit of becoming the new January.

Back to work.
Back to school.
Back to meetings.
Back to routines.
Back to squeezing ourselves to the bottom of the list.

Don't.

Choose ONE daily non-negotiable for September.

Not an ambitious new routine you'll abandon by the second week.

Something small enough that you can actually keep doing it.

A 15-minute walk without your phone.
Lunch away from your desk.
A 60-second Movement Snack every hour.
Ten minutes with a book.
Sitting somewhere that makes the world feel a little quieter.

Mine will include this bench.

The best non-negotiable isn't the most impressive one. It's the one you enjoy enough to protect.

Because burnout prevention isn't always about adding another wellbeing activity to your life.

Sometimes it's about refusing to give all of your life away.

So, before September starts:

What's the ONE thing you're making non-negotiable for yourself every day?

27/08/2026

I GET PAID TO STOP PEOPLE WORKING.

Then I teach their bosses how to encourage it. 😂

Sounds like a terrible business model, doesn’t it?

Earlier this week, Jon Cox challenged us to describe what we do in a way that makes it sound slightly shady or illegal.

So here’s mine:

I interrupt people while they’re working.

I encourage them to leave their desks.

I get them marching while the kettle boils.

Squatting while they brush their teeth.

Doing push-ups against the kitchen worktop.

And sometimes I persuade entire organisations that their employees should spend MORE time moving and LESS time sitting at their desks.

Basically, I’m paid to disrupt productivity - to improve productivity.

Because sitting glued to a screen for hours isn’t a badge of commitment.

Our brains and bodies need regular resets.

And that doesn’t mean disappearing to the gym for an hour.

It can be 60 seconds.

Stand up.
Move.
Reset.
Get back to it.

That’s the whole idea behind my Movement Snacks.

Small enough to fit into the working day.
Simple enough that people actually do them.
Effective enough to make a difference when they become part of the culture.

So yes...

I get paid to stop people working.

Just long enough to help them work better. 😉

Thanks Jon for the inspiration!

Now your turn.

Describe what YOU do for a living and make it sound slightly shady or illegal.

I’m looking for people who already have the ear of organisations that want healthier, higher-performing teams.And I’m of...
26/08/2026

I’m looking for people who already have the ear of organisations that want healthier, higher-performing teams.

And I’m offering paid affiliate opportunities to the right people.

I’ve created The Performance Microbreak Platform™ around a simple belief:

We shouldn’t wait for people to burn out before we help them perform better.

The platform brings prevention directly into the working day.

An employee chooses how they want to feel.

More focused.
More energised.
Calmer.
Less stressed.
Less uncomfortable.
Ready to recover after a difficult meeting or beat the afternoon slump.

They’re given a personalised 60-second Movement Snack and rate the difference afterwards.

No gym kit.
No hour-long wellbeing session.
No major interruption to their day.

And importantly, organisations receive anonymous Human Performance insights showing changes in focus, energy, stress and physical discomfort.

Movement is the delivery mechanism. Performance is the product.

Now I want to get it into more organisations.

So I’m looking for affiliates who already work with businesses and understand the value of proactive prevention, particularly:

→ HR Business Partners and Consultants
→ Occupational Health Consultants
→ Wellbeing Consultants
→ Physiotherapists
→ Learning & Development Partners
→ Leadership Coaches

You don't need to become a salesperson.

I’m looking for people who genuinely believe this could benefit the organisations and people they already work with and are happy to open the right conversations.

There will be paid opportunities for suitable affiliate partners.

If this sounds like you, comment MICROBREAK or send me a DM and I’ll share the details
And if someone immediately came to mind while you were reading this, please share or tag them below.

I’d love to build a network of people who believe, as I do, that prevention should happen before fatigue becomes failure.

25/08/2026

If your employees are frightened to be seen doing nothing for five minutes, you don't have a productivity problem.

You have a psychological safety problem.

Someone commented on one of my AI posts this week:

“We’ve somehow made an empty five minutes feel like something to apologise for.”

That stopped me.

Because they're right.

We've been talking all week about what happens when AI gives us time back.

But here's another question:

Do people actually feel safe taking it?

It's no good telling someone to take a break if their manager never does.

It's no good giving people permission to switch off if the person leading them is sending emails at 10pm.

And it's no good AI saving 30 minutes if everyone is terrified of looking like they have 30 minutes spare.

So here's one thing leaders can do today.

Take five minutes.

Leave your desk.

Move.

Make the coffee.

Talk to someone.

And most importantly - Don't hide it.

Let your team see that stopping for five minutes isn't laziness.

It's part of performing well.

Because people don't just listen to what leaders say.

They watch what leaders normalise.

Would someone in your team feel comfortable telling you, “I've got five minutes spare, so I'm going to take a break”?

The answer tells you quite a lot about your culture.

I nearly missed this day.Today, my daughter Martha turns 18.In this photo, she was 8.And I was taking my first tentative...
24/08/2026

I nearly missed this day.

Today, my daughter Martha turns 18.

In this photo, she was 8.

And I was taking my first tentative steps back into the world after the accident that changed everything.

I look happy.

But what that photo doesn't show is how broken I felt.

I had gone from being the woman who could work ridiculous hours, run marathons, look after everyone else and somehow keep all the plates spinning, to needing help to get to the bathroom.

I couldn't think properly.

I struggled to find words.

Noise and light overwhelmed me.

And I had reached a point where I genuinely couldn't see a way forward.

Then an eight-year-old girl taught me something no career ever had.

At my lowest point, Martha emptied her money box onto the table.

£1.22.

She looked at me and said:

“I'd rather have my mummy than money.”

I've never forgotten those words.

Because she was right.

The extra hours weren't worth it.

The emails weren't worth it.

Being the person who could always take on just one more thing wasn't worth it.

My daughter needed her mum more than my job needed another 10 hours of me.

And I needed to hear that.

Chapter 9 of Broken to Bionic is called When the Body Says No.

I wrote:

“My body didn't betray me - it saved me from a life that was slowly killing me.”

It took an accident to physically stop me.

I don't want other people to need their own version of that wake-up call.

That's why I'm so passionate about preventing burnout before the body eventually says ENOUGH.

These days, Martha and I have girly nights.

We go on holiday together.

We make time for each other.

And today, that little eight-year-old turns 18.

She recently achieved two distinctions and a merit in her BTEC, and in September she's off to UWE to study Primary Education.

She's going to inspire children for a living.

Which feels rather fitting.

Because she has no idea how much she inspired me.

If you're sacrificing the people you love to keep proving how committed you are at work, ask yourself one uncomfortable question.

Will the thing I'm giving my life to today matter more than the person I'm taking that time from?

I wish I'd asked myself that much sooner.

Happy 18th birthday, Martha. 🎉

I'm incredibly proud of the woman you've become.

And tonight, I'll be raising a glass of chicken wine with you. 🐔 🍷

This time, the work can wait.

20/08/2026

Burnout prevention can start with a saucepan.

Tomorrow is a full day, with commitments stretching from 7am until 7pm.

The old me would have looked at that diary and thought:

“I’ll sort food out when I get a minute.”

That usually meant making another decision when I was already tired and hungry.

So today, I’ve planned ahead.

I’ve made pasta with a homemade tomato and vegetable sauce for today.

And tomorrow’s dinner is already cooked - a deliciously fragrant Ceylon curry, made from scratch with fresh ingredients.

Even better, I’ve made at least six portions.

So the leftovers will go in the freezer ready for the next long day.

It sounds simple.

But that’s exactly what burnout prevention should be.

Not waiting until you’re overwhelmed and then trying to recover.

It’s looking ahead and asking:

Where can I make life easier for myself before the pressure hits?

Food is just one example.

Plan the meal. Block the break. Fill the water bottle. Put the trainers by the door. Say no to something that doesn’t need a yes.

Planning isn’t about squeezing more into your day.

It’s about taking some of the pressure out of it.

Before you finish today, look at tomorrow.

What ONE thing could you do now to make tomorrow easier?

19/08/2026

10 years ago, I discovered that being “fit” wasn’t enough.

I was teaching several spin classes a week.

I cycled to work.

I ran.

But I was also a lawyer spending up to 10 hours a day sitting at a desk.

Then I had a routine DEXA scan.

Low muscle mass.

Bone density suggesting I was borderline osteoporosis.

I was shocked.

Because on paper, I was doing everything we’re told to do.

Exercise regularly. Tick. ✅

Stay active. Tick. ✅

But there was a problem.

I exercised.

Then I sat.

For hours.

That result helped change the way I thought about movement, and eventually became part of the reason I created Movement Snacks.

Tiny bursts of muscular activity built into things I was already doing.

Squats while brushing my teeth.

Worktop push-ups between meetings.

Calf raises while waiting for the kettle.

Sometimes just 30-60 seconds.

Not instead of proper exercise.

Alongside it.

Last week, 10 years after that original scan, I had another DEXA scan.

This time?

My bone density was HIGH.

And my muscle mass was literally off the scale on the report.

I've changed a lot about my lifestyle over those 10 years, including putting much more emphasis on strength and regularly using my muscles throughout the day.

But here's the lesson I'd take into every workplace:

A gym session doesn't make 8-10 hours of sitting disappear.

We need to stop thinking about movement as something that only happens before or after work.

It can happen during it.

Try this today:

Every time you finish a Teams meeting, do 10 squats before opening your next email.

That's it.

Your muscles don't know you're at work.

They just know whether you're using them.

And if we can make movement part of the working day rather than another thing employees have to find time for, that's where things get interesting.

That's exactly why I created my Performance Microbreak Platform.

60-second interventions, built into the working day, designed to support energy, focus, physical health and performance.

What could 60 seconds of movement, repeated consistently, change over the next 10 years?

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