Topaz returns to share even more insights about building a life and business on your own terms. From navigating Google as a content strategist to embracing her "soft girl era," Topaz reveals how strategic decisions—like saying "no"—can lead to thriving professionally and personally.

Topaz is a copywriter for clean beauty, sustainable fashion, and plant-based products, dedicated to helping cruelty-free brands stand out. In this episode, she continues to inspire with practical advice for balancing work, passion, and life.

• How to say no strategically without burning bridges

• How Topaz used her full-time job strategically to build her business

• Transitioning from a corporate mindset to a freelance lifestyle

• Why filling your cup first makes you a better professional

• Topaz’s journey to a 4-hour workday and how it transformed her life

• Key questions to evaluate if a client is the right fit for you

• How to embrace the slower seasons in your business

• Reclaiming your time and energy through intentional choices

• …and why Topaz says goodbye to the grind

We also mentioned these people/things:

The Cruelty Free Copywriter website

How to work less by Rich Webster (affiliate link)

Verity Byth

Topaz’s Instagram

Topaz’s travel and writing website

Martha’s website

Martha’s HyperFocus Week services

Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Liv’s website

Liv’s LinkedIn

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Topaz squirrelled away tons of knowledge (and dollars) from her time as a Google Content Strategist. Now she’s crafted a business that aligns with her heart’s truest values. Find out how she did it—and how she’s let go of society’s expectations for her to trust herself instead.

Topaz offers copywriting services for clean beauty, sustainable fashion, and plant-based products. She’s on a mission to help cruelty-free brands stand out, turn heads, and change the world

• How Topaz turned her values into a marketable USP

• Learn how Topaz mined her experience as a Content Strategist at Google to start her own business

• The power of intentionality and how Topaz puts it to work in her life

• Find out the best thing Topaz learned at Google

• Maximise your hours (so you can work fewer hours!)

• Want to work 4-hour days? Grab Topaz’s advice

• Find out how Topaz prepared financially to take the plunge into her own business

• …and get the details on how she manages to travel as much as she wants

We also mentioned these people/things:

The Cruelty Free Copywriter website

Topaz’s Instagram

Topaz’s travel and writing website

Martha’s website

Martha’s HyperFocus Week services

Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Liv’s website

Liv’s LinkedIn

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It’s not easy. It’s gonna take ages. But learning to regulate your nervous system is the most powerful thing you can do to recover from burnout. Learn how to build gentleness into your life and your business—so you can live with more self-compassion.

Lisa Hicks is an ADHD and Autism coach and a content creator. She’s here to help you learn to support yourself and thrive as a business owner.

• Lisa shares how her business has changed in light of her AuDHD diagnosis

• Learn how Lisa prioritises REST as part of burnout recovery

• How the crazy stuff going on in the world affects your nervous system—even if you think it isn’t

• How Lisa uses science and psychology to help her teach clients to regulate their nervous systems

• What to do when self care and hobbies just become another chore

• How neurodivergence affects executive function and our ability to respond to demands

• Why Lisa says self regulation is at the core of dealing with burnout

• How to start if rest is absolutely a foreign concept for you

• Learn Lisa’s advice for burnout (if you can’t take three years off)

• Find out if a “low demand lifestyle” could be the answer for your family and/or your business with Lisa’s three key questions

• Learn Lisa’s best advice for when you’re feeling pressure

We also mentioned these people/things:

Lisa’s website

Creating Capacity-Based Routines Workbook + use code WORKSFORYOU50

Lisa’s TikTok and Instagram

Martha’s website

Martha’s HyperFocus Week services

Martha’s LinkedIn and Instagram

Liv’s website

Liv’s LinkedIn

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