Gifty Enright

The most exhausting job I’ve ever had?


Being liked by everyone.

Smiling through meetings I hated.
Agreeing to help when my soul whispered 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡.
Staying quiet just to keep the peace.

They call it 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒.
Women are experts at it.

But here’s what they don’t tell you:
That kind of nice is a slow-acting poison.

It breeds resentment.
It blocks growth.
And eventually, it turns you into a version of yourself you barely recognise.

The truth?

Sometimes you have to choose between being liked
and being free.

Yes, disappointing people stings.
Yes, it’ll make you feel like a monster the first few times.

But it’s temporary.

Resentment?
That sucker builds.
Quietly. Daily. Relentlessly.

You don’t owe anyone your burnout.
You owe yourself your honesty.

Choose discomfort now, or bitterness later.

Your future self votes for the first one.

P.S. Ever picked resentment over honesty? What did it cost you? 👀

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I once blamed the work experience kid for a mistake I made.
Because I was scared of looking stupid.

Not my proudest moment.
(Special place in hell for me, I know.)

But one of my most important.

Because here’s what happened next:

🟢 I owned it.
🟢 Publicly.
🟢 No excuses.
🟢 And apologised to the kid.

And something wild happened...

The team 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑒𝑑.

✅ They stopped hiding things.
✅ They stopped panicking when things went wrong.
✅ They started taking better risks.

Because when leaders own their sh*t,
they give permission for others to do the same.

Here’s the 3-part formula that saved my leadership skin:

𝟏. 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.
“I messed up.” No softening. No blaming. Just truth.

𝟐. 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐱.
Explain what you’re doing to make it right. Action builds trust.

𝟑. 𝐒𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞.
Remind the team: we learn more from mistakes than we do from wins.

❌ We’re not robots.
➡ We’re human.
➡ Leading humans.

Your team’s culture is watching how you fail.

Teach them to do it with guts.

And at home?
The kids are always watching.

P.S. What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever owned up to? I’ve shown you mine… 👀

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This is not leadership!


Some leaders think yelling “URGENT!” makes them look important.

It doesn’t.

It just makes everyone else roll their eyes and cancel dinner plans.

We’ve all been there:

🔴 A last-minute deck “emergency” that’s been sitting in someone’s inbox for 2 days.
🔴 A pointless panic call at 6:55pm.
🔴 A Slack that says “quick one” but takes your entire night.

This isn’t just annoying.

This is 𝑏𝑎𝑑 leadership.

This is anxiety with a job title.

And Gen Z? They’re not buying it.

Years of watching their parents burn out will do that.

They’re the first generation to call out the madness.
To ask: why are we treating minor tasks like trauma response?
To say: “It’s PR, not the ER.”

They're right.

If you want to lead the next generation, stop managing with cortisol.

They don’t respond to it, and they shouldn’t.

Try clarity. Calm. And, wild idea; a bit of common sense.

P.S. What’s the weirdest “emergency” you’ve ever been dragged into? Drop it below 👇

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I have had sh*t week!

Lost your spark this week?

Same.

I always tell my clients:
𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐨.

So I walked the talk.
And took a double dose of my own medicine.

Monday I was the woman who juggles three humans, a business, and a spreadsheet that would terrify NASA.

By Wednesday I was suddenly “failing” because:

💬 My son was having an existential crisis
👻 A client ghosted me
⏰ And I missed a deadline

One bad week ≠ new identity.
You don’t go from Queen Energy to abject failure in 48 hours.

But we do it, right?

✅ We forget the wins.
✅ The grit.
✅ The tenacity that got us here.

Here’s your reminder:

You're not the story your stress (or fear tells you.

You're the one who made it through the last mess,
and will make it through this one too.

Keep receipts.
I make my clients keep a 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑜 book.
Read it like scripture.

P.S. What was your last “burn-it-all-down” moment? I need the drama. Drop it below 👇

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I used to be the kind of person who worried about 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.


➡ The kids.
➡ The business.
➡ My mum.
➡ The dogs

And then I'd worry about how much I worried. 🙃

When my son first passed his driving test, I’d sit up all night waiting for him to come home.
He was out living.
I was indoors spiralling.

He never knew.
But I felt it, in my body, in my brain fog, in my burnout.

Worry didn’t change a thing.
Except my energy levels.
My sleep. Lose my hair.
And my ability to show up the next day like a functioning human.

The truth?
Worry is just imagination… used against yourself.

It took 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 to retrain my brain.

✅ To focus on action.
✅ To stay present.
✅ To stop catastrophising every possible outcome.

And that shift saved my sanity.
And my nervous system.

If you’re stuck in worry-mode, hear this:
You’re not failing.
You’re just rehearsing pain you don’t need to feel.

Now, I help women in leadership do the same.

Because when you're leading at work and at home, worry is a luxury you can’t afford.

Your kids need you.
Your team needs you.
And they need you present, not panicking.

So I shift them from worry to action
From spiralling to showing up.

Take the next step.
Not the next thought.

P.S. Ever stayed up worrying for absolutely no reason? Hit me with your worst one 👇

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AI kills creativity.


Reality: It unblocks it.

As someone who’s written a book, I know what it’s like to wrestle with a blank page.
The cursor blinks. The mind doesn’t.

You know you’ve got something to say…
But no clue how to say it.

That’s where AI earns its keep.

It’s not writing 𝑓𝑜𝑟 you.
It’s brainstorming 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ you.

Need 10 ways to start a chapter?
Done.

Want 3 tonal directions for your next piece?
Boom.

It throws spaghetti at the wall,
So you can pick what sticks.

This is not the end of human creativity.
It’s the beginning of something freer.

A way to skip the grunt work and dive straight into the magic.

We should stop worrying that AI will replace our originality,
And start using it to 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑦 it.

Writers, leaders, creators, parents:
Treat it like a creative co-pilot.

Because nothing fuels creativity like momentum.
And AI’s got plenty of that.

Yes, I love tech.
So I’m probably biased.

But AI frees us from drudgery.
And lets us tap into more of our human potential.

Our kids are growing up with it.
So let’s teach them the truth:
It’s an 𝑒𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟, not a replacer.

P.S. Ever tried using AI to get unstuck? Quick reply: what did you use it for?

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5 Things That Lower Cortisol Fast


👇 Especially if you're a career mum trying not to snap at your laptop.

Most companies treat stress like a tech issue:
Add a resilience webinar, reboot the team, hope for the best.

Meanwhile, science is quietly shouting something else.

🧪 King’s College London found that looking at real art (yes, even your kid’s glitter-soaked “mermaid tree”) can reduce cortisol by 22%.

TWENTY. TWO.

So if you want to feel human again, skip the Zoom mindfulness app and try this instead:

💥 Real art, not Canva posters about teamwork
🌿 A 20-minute walk in nature
🖌️ Doodling something that looks like mashed potatoes
☀️ A well-timed sunset
🎨 Getting covered in PVA glue with your kids

These aren’t “nice to haves”.
They’re nervous system maintenance.

And no, you don’t need to earn them.

Your body isn’t a machine.
It’s an ecosystem.

Time to treat it like one.

As usual, I wax lyrical about this in my newsletter below 👇

P.S. What’s your go-to nervous system reset? I want numbers: drop a % for how well it works on your worst day.

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Some days, inspiration packs her bags and ghosts you.


You're staring at your screen like it just insulted your toddler.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐖𝐎𝐋:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐡*𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐞 (𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝)

𝟏. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐦
Scroll your screenshots folder. Past You, had ideas. Use them.

𝟐. 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭
Perfection is a trap. Write the worst version possible. Then upgrade.

𝟑. 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬
Bedroom. Kitchen. Carpark. A change of view = a change of vibe.

4. 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚 𝟏𝟎-𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫
No pressure = no product. Race the clock instead.

5. 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝
Ask: “If I weren’t overthinking this, what would I say?” Works every time.

Inspiration is overrated.

Systems > moods.

(And a snack never hurts.)

P.S. Be honest, what’s your go-to move when the ideas run dry? 👀

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