From Hustle to Systems: How Anna Gahramanov Builds Revenue Machines for Small Businesses

Anna Gahramanov is the founder of Elite Media Empire, a Miami-based agency that installs revenue systems for small businesses. Her work brings CRM, advertising, offers, and sales together into one integrated machine, so that every lead is captured, tracked, and followed up on. Her path into systems started close

From Systems to Self-Authorship: How JJ Byun Built a Bridge Between Cultures and Careers

After a 20-year career spanning people-centred systems, complex project delivery, organisational transformation and leadership development across Asia and Europe, JJ Byun, Founder and Managing Director of BYUN & CO, began asking a different kind of question - not how systems change, but how people do. That curiosity, shaped by

From Major Label Marketing to Independent Consultancy: How Alison Lamb Built Project Allies

After more than a decade working in marketing across independent labels, distribution companies and management teams, Alison Lamb made the leap into self employment in 2023 with the launch of Project Allies. Her decision came at a pivotal moment, both in her own career and in the wider industry, as

Sara Ellis

Sara Ellis is the founder of Stone & Sky Self-Mapping and creator of the Human Translation Method. Late-diagnosed as neurodivergent after a lifetime of trying to understand a world that often misunderstood her, Sara combined that lived experience with years spent translating complicated information in healthcare to build

J & J Publishing House

JC Wilde is the Co-Founder of J & J Publishing House, where she is also a Writer and the Editorial Director of the company, which she runs alongside her wife, JFo—a Co-Founder, Writer, and Illustrator. Together they are dedicated to the conscious creation and publication of books

Make Lemonade

Make Lemonade is a UK-based independent brand and communications strategy consultancy specialising in AI intelligence and authority for luxury brands and agencies. We help luxury travel and hospitality brands remain visible, discoverable and recommended as artificial intelligence informs and curates brand reputations.  Preferred contact email: maria@make-lemonade.co.

From Both Sides of the Table: How Ethel Cohen Is Rebuilding Insurance Around the Shopper

Ethel Rio Cohen has seen the insurance industry from every angle. She previously helped build an insurance agency, which she later sold, and now she is the founder and CEO of Ensurance, a U.S. insurance-shopping company that helps people shop for better insurance prices and coverage options across

Pricing as a Growth Lever: Debika Sen Chaudhury on Building Nir Growth

Debika Sen Chaudhury spent years working as a growth consultant for SaaS startups before she noticed a pattern that troubled her: companies kept hiring more SDRs, pouring money into marketing, and pushing new product versions, only to repeat the same cycle a few months later with a new agency or

From a Small Town to a Big Dream: How Raynette Jones Turned Grief Into RJ's Dessert Bar

Raynette Jones always carried a big dream, long before RJ's Dessert Bar had a name, a menu, or a place in her community. She knew she wanted to build something of her own, something that would turn her creativity into a business and her passion into purpose. But

From Operations to Ownership: How Radiance Mack Built a Business Out of Being the One Who Holds Everything Together

Every growing company reaches a point where its founder becomes something more than a leader: an operating system that everyone quietly depends on to keep the pieces connected. Radiance Mack knows that role intimately. Before starting her own business, she spent years in cross-functional operating positions where she was,

Audrey Hackett on Why ESG Is the Hard Science Nobody Talks About

When it comes to large-scale renewable energy projects, most conversations about risk focus on the technical: wind resource data, engineering specs, financing structures. Audrey Hackett believes the industry has it backwards. As co-founder of Solenne Solutions, she has built a consultancy around a simple but often overlooked idea:

The Name Game: How Emma Bryant Turned a Branding Pet Peeve Into The Nameist

Every brand needs a name, but almost no one has a process for finding one. Emma Bryant learned this the hard way as a copywriter at advertising and branding agencies, where naming projects had a habit of spiraling into chaos: endless spreadsheets of half-baked ideas, stakeholders locked in debates