In this episode, we break down what business owners can actually do when the economy feels uncertain, costs are rising, and cashflow is under pressure.

Using the simple 3P Cashflow Framework: Protect, Plug, Preserve, we look at how to protect cash, plug profit leaks, and preserve the parts of the business that keep revenue moving.

This episode is for business owners who feel busy but not profitable, overwhelmed by rising costs, or unsure whether to cut back, raise prices, or hold steady. You’ll learn how to review your cash buffer, tighten debtors, check pricing, reduce waste, protect your best customers, and make clearer financial decisions over the next 90 days.

A practical, grounded episode to help you move from panic to clarity and take control of the numbers you can

Self-love isn’t just candles and comfort. It’s boundaries, follow through, and doing what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like it. In this episode of Grit and Grace, I unpack why discipline is the highest form of self-love - not as punishment, but as protection. We talk about the difference between rest and avoidance, how to rebuild trust with yourself one small promise at a time, and how structure can hold you steady when life feels heavy. If you’ve been waiting on motivation to change your habits, your health, your finances, or your healing. This is your wake up call.

In this episode:

• Why “self-love” without discipline becomes self sabotage
• How to stop negotiating with the comfort seeking version of you
• Simple, realistic ways to build discipline (even on hard days)
• The truth about minimum standards, boundaries, and self respect

Listen in, pick one promise to keep today, and start showing yourself real love - on purpose.

Numbers tell a story-but courage writes the ending. In this episode of Grit & Grace, I share a message inspired by a recent women-in-business event built around the theme SOAR: Stories, Opportunities, Ambition and Resilience. We talk about the chapters people don’t see behind the success, why ambition isn’t a dirty word, how opportunities often arrive disguised as disruption, and what resilience really looks like in the everyday moments when you keep going anyway.

If you’ve been feeling stretched, uncertain, or on the edge of your next level, this episode is your reminder: you don’t have to be perfectly ready-you become ready by taking the step.

In this episode:

• The real story behind the spreadsheets
• SOAR as a framework for the season you’re in
• Redirection vs rejection-and when to build your own door
• A simple takeaway to help you choose your next right step

Listen now, and if it resonates, share it with a woman who needs the reminder.

This is a deeply personal episode of Grit & Grace.

Marking one year since the sudden passing of her husband, Donagh steps away from business to share a heartfelt tribute to love, marriage, grief and the identity shift that comes with becoming a widow.

In this episode, Donagh reflects on what it means to lose the person you built your life with, the courage it takes to keep going, and the quiet strength involved in learning to live a life that includes such a profound absence. She also shares the story behind her new book, The Light in the Window of My Heart — a collection of poems written during the first year of grief.

This is an episode about love that does not end, healing that does not mean forgetting, and finding light even in the darkest seasons. It is offered with honesty and tenderness for anyone who has loved deeply, lost someone, or is walking beside someone who is grieving.

Content note: This episode discusses sudden loss, grief and bereavement. Please listen gently and only when you feel ready.

There are contracts you never signed, yet you have been honouring them for years: be easy to deal with, don’t disappoint anyone, don’t charge too much, don’t ask for help, don’t rest until everything is done.

In this episode of Grit & Grace, Donagh unpacks the “Silent Contract” — the invisible rules we absorb over a lifetime and unknowingly carry into our businesses and daily lives. These unspoken rules often masquerade as dedication, loyalty and strength, while quietly costing us profit, energy, confidence and peace.

You’ll learn how the Silent Contract shows up in undercharging, overcommitting, people-pleasing and becoming the bottleneck in your own business, and why breaking these patterns can feel uncomfortable even when it is right. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to identify your own hidden rules and rewrite them into standards based on self-respect rather than fear.

This episode includes a practical 7-day challenge to help you renegotiate one clause of your Silent Contract and begin leading your life and business on your own terms.

Because you never signed the Silent Contract — and you are allowed to rewrite it.

Some of the hardest battles happen in your own head — while the world sees you as capable, calm and “fine”.

In this episode of Grit & Grace, Donagh explores the hidden cost of being the dependable one: the person who keeps showing up, keeps answering, keeps supporting, and keeps holding everything together while quietly disappearing from herself.

This episode is a powerful reflection on people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional load and the pressure to be everything to everyone. It unpacks why being “strong” can become a cage, how generosity can turn into resentment, and why boundaries are not selfish — they are how you come back to yourself.

You’ll be invited to consider where you may be over-functioning, what it is costing you, and one simple boundary sentence you can practise this week.

Because the life you are building deserves you in it — not just your output, service or strength.

Grief, Grit and Building Again After Sudden Loss

In this episode of Grit & Grace, I’m joined by my neighbour and friend Courtney Bowers. Courtney and I both lost our husbands suddenly, with no warning, just seven weeks apart — and this conversation is as honest as it is necessary.

We talk about what people don’t tell you about grief while still trying to run a life and a business, and the ways the world often reacts to a grieving woman: the discomfort, the silence, the pressure to “move on”, and the damaging idea that you should be “over it by now”. We say this clearly: it is not OK to diminish grief, minimise feelings, or put a timeline on love and loss.

Courtney also shares what she is building next — a farmstay on her property — and what it means to create something new while carrying a life that has changed forever.

This is a raw conversation. It is also hopeful, practical, and deeply human.

Content note: This episode includes discussion of grief and sudden loss. Please take care while listening. Disclaimer: This episode is general information only and does not take into account your personal circumstances. It is not legal, financial, or tax advice. Please seek advice specific to your situation.

Have you ever found yourself typing “sorry” before you have even said what you need to say?

In this episode of the Alice series, Alice faces a moment many women in business know all too well. A potential client questions her price, and her first instinct is to apologise, discount and over explain.

But this time, Alice pauses.

Through a powerful and relatable story, this episode explores the hidden cost of over apologising, undercharging, people pleasing and making yourself “easy” at the expense of your own wellbeing and business sustainability.

You will be invited to reflect on where you may be apologising in your pricing, your calendar, your boundaries, your messaging or your success. More importantly, you will learn how to shift from shrinking and over explaining to communicating with clarity, confidence and warmth.

This is an episode for every woman who is ready to stop saying “sorry, I’m just…” and start owning the value of her work, her voice and her business.

Because it was not nothing.

It was you.