I’ve never been very interested in tidy answers. I’m much more interested in the point where something stops quite making sense
…and what becomes possible when we stay curious there.
the life behind the work
I've spent more than fifteen years working across commodities trading, financial markets, regulation and leadership. My career has taken me through large international businesses, complex regulatory environments and situations where the decisions are rarely as straightforward as they first appear.
I've spent a lot of time examining how systems work, how people exercise power, how decisions are made and what happens when the official explanation doesn't quite match reality.
It's taught me to ask questions, recognise patterns, challenge assumptions and look for the connections between things that initially seem unrelated.
And to appreciate that being technically right doesn't necessarily mean you've understood the whole situation.
Outside that world, I've been asking many of the same questions about being human.
Motherhood. Relationships. Years of therapy and inner exploration. Experiences of trauma and grief. Rebuilding parts of my life. Learning about myself through psychology, intuition, astrology and experiences that don't always lend themselves to a logical explanation.
I've never been particularly interested in choosing between these worlds.
I can appreciate a rigorous argument and trust my intuition. I can understand the importance of financial security and question the expectations that shape our ideas of success. I can love a strategic plan and still want a life with plenty of room for spontaneity.
To me, those aren't contradictions that need resolving. They're different parts of being human.
A question that changed how I looked at my life
A work trip to Sydney a few years ago brought something into sharper focus. I found myself questioning the difference between building a successful life and actually wanting to inhabit it. I'd spent years becoming good at navigating demanding environments, understanding complex systems and building a career. There was plenty about that life I valued.
But I was becoming increasingly interested in what I wanted my life to contain beyond the things I'd become very good at doing.
Not because ambition was wrong, or because everything I'd built needed to be abandoned. I wanted to understand how much of my life reflected what mattered to me, and how much had been shaped by expectations I'd learned to navigate.
It wasn't a question with one dramatic answer. It became part of a much wider personal exploration of power, psyche, meaning, and the freedom to make conscious choices, and ultimately, it became the foundation of the work I do today. That exploration continues.
Why Salt+Gold
Salt+Gold grew from the meeting of these different parts of my life.
My professional experience taught me to look closely at structures, incentives, authority and the realities that shape people's choices. My personal exploration taught me to pay just as much attention to emotion, history, intuition, desire and the meanings we make from what we experience.
Neither perspective, on its own, has ever felt sufficient to me. And I find some of the most interesting discoveries happen when we bring them together.
That's the thinking behind Salt+Gold, and it's what I bring to a conversation.
I'm interested in what you're saying, what might be influencing it, what doesn't quite fit and what becomes visible when we consider something from another angle. I won't assume I know the answer to your question. But I'll bring my experience, judgement and perspective to exploring it with you.
a few things that are also true
I bring curiosity, warmth and a fairly sharp eye for what isn't quite adding up.
I like structure and freedom in roughly equal measure. I enjoy a complicated question, an unexpected connection and a good challenge to something everyone seems to have accepted as obvious.
I believe in therapy, intuition, my birth chart, my soul and spirit, vintage Chanel & Saint Laurent, good questions, a strategic plan, and the occasional spreadsheet (if I must).
I'm a mother, an astrology student, a sunrise-and-ocean person, and someone who has absolutely mentioned Mercury retrograde in corporate meetings.
I believe there's room for ambition and pleasure, seriousness and play, rational thinking and the things we can't always explain.