Saunders Fearns Catalyst Coaching

Saunders Fearns Catalyst Coaching Hi I’m Niki, founder of Saunders-Fearns Catalyst Coaching. Helping midlife women perform at their best without losing their edge. Clarity. Confidence. Performance

17/09/2026

SAVE THIS if your brain keeps a better record of your mistakes than your successes.

She remembered the school email she hadn’t sent.

The parents’ evening she hadn’t booked.

The dinner money.

The mouse.

The email she’d sent in a temper.

The present she’d forgotten.

The people she hadn’t called.

And the son who was annoyed because she worked too much.

She had receipts for every way she thought she’d failed that day.

But when I asked her what she’d done well?

She’d helped her son make a brilliant start at high school.

Created something lovely for her family to look forward to.

And supported a colleague so well they’d gone out of their way to tell her.

None of those things had made her original list.

And that’s the bit I can’t stop thinking about.

Isn’t it funny how the bad stays with us and the good gets overlooked?

Especially when you’re carrying a lot.

So try this tonight.

Before you run through everything you didn’t finish, forgot, got wrong or could have done better…

name three things you did well.

Not because the difficult stuff doesn’t matter.

Because it isn’t the whole story.

Save this. And tonight, find your three.

15/09/2026

SAVE THIS for the next time something you really want scares the life out of you.

We have a strange relationship with fresh starts.

We think the right decision should feel exciting.

That if we’re ready, we’ll feel confident.

That if we’re scared, perhaps our gut is trying to tell us something.

But sometimes fear isn’t a warning.

Sometimes you’re scared because you’re about to do something you’ve never done before.

A new job.
A new relationship.
Starting the business.
Leaving the career.
Moving somewhere new.
Beginning again when everyone thought you’d stay exactly where you were.

You can be excited and terrified.

Certain about what you want and nervous about what comes next.

The presence of fear doesn’t automatically mean the absence of courage.

So when your brain starts asking:

What if I get this wrong?

Try asking it something else:

What if this is the beginning of something brilliant?

🚕 Save this one. You might need reminding of it when your next fresh start arrives.

07/09/2026

Send this to the woman who needs to stop asking someone else why she wasn’t enough.

She kept asking men who hadn’t chosen her to explain why she wasn’t enough.

And that was the bit I wanted to shake her over.

Not the crying.
Not the heartbreak.
Not even the terrible relationships.

It was watching this brilliant, intelligent, beautiful woman repeatedly hand somebody else the power to decide what she was worth.

Because sometimes you won’t get the explanation.

Sometimes somebody just doesn’t choose you.

Sometimes they don’t value what you bring.

And sometimes there is no answer that will make rejection hurt less.

But their decision is not evidence that there is something wrong with you.

Stop auditioning for people who have already shown you they don’t deserve a front-row seat in your life.

You don’t need them to explain your worth back to you.

You need to know it before they arrive.

I hugged her when she got out of my taxi.

And I really hope she went home knowing this:

She was never asking the wrong question.
She was asking the wrong person.

🚕❤️

A menopause policy is not enough.Because the difficult bit isn’t writing the policy.It’s what happens when an experience...
04/09/2026

A menopause policy is not enough.

Because the difficult bit isn’t writing the policy.

It’s what happens when an experienced woman who has always performed well suddenly starts struggling.

Her confidence changes.

She can’t concentrate like she used to.

She starts forgetting things.

Her behaviour changes.

Maybe her attendance does too.

Does her manager actually know what to do?

Do they raise it?
Avoid it?
Treat it purely as a performance issue?
Mention menopause?
Say nothing because they’re terrified of saying the wrong thing?

That gap is exactly what we’re tackling at Beyond the Policy on Wednesday 23rd September at Clockwise Liverpool.

Ikigai HR Consulting Ltd (ig-hr) will bring the HR and employment perspective.

I’ll be bringing the leadership and performance side — including how perimenopause can affect confidence, cognition and performance, and how managers can have better conversations without diagnosing, making assumptions or lowering standards.

Because experienced women don’t suddenly become less capable in midlife.

But when managers don’t understand what they’re seeing, organisations can misread the signs, mishandle performance and risk losing experienced people they could have retained. That’s exactly the performance-and-retention territory you’ve positioned your organisational work around. Midlife and Talent Retention.pdf

This isn’t another menopause-awareness session.

It’s about what managers actually do when menopause starts showing up at work.

📅 Wednesday 23rd September
⏰ 9.30am
📍 Clockwise Liverpool

🎟️ Book your place — link in bio.

Your ticket also includes breakfast, relaxed networking and a full co-working day at Clockwise Liverpool.

01/09/2026

How many things have you blamed yourself for lately?

Forgetting something you absolutely should have remembered.

Losing your train of thought halfway through a sentence.

Walking into a meeting feeling completely prepared… then struggling to find the words.

Getting overwhelmed by something you used to handle without thinking.

Snapping at someone you love.

Struggling to make a decision.

And perhaps the worst one:

Wondering whether you’re just not as good as you used to be.

I hear versions of this from women all the time.

And because they’re capable, high-performing women, their first instinct isn’t usually:

“I wonder what’s going on with me?”

It’s:

“What the hell is wrong with me?”

So they start collecting evidence against themselves.

I’m not as sharp.

I’m not coping.

I’m dropping balls.

I’ve lost my confidence.

I’m failing.

Except sometimes, you’re blaming the wrong person.

Perimenopause can affect sleep, concentration, memory, mood and how you cope with stress.

That doesn’t mean every bad day is caused by hormones.

And it doesn’t mean you suddenly stop taking responsibility for yourself.

But it DOES mean you should stop automatically interpreting every struggle as evidence that you’ve somehow become less capable.

You haven’t necessarily lost your edge.

The conditions you’re operating in may have changed.

And sometimes that means the way you’ve always operated needs to change too.

If this feels familiar and you’re wondering what working with me could look like, visit my website to find out how I help women get their confidence, clarity and edge back.

Link in bio. 👆

This photo of me got 45,000 views.There’s just one problem.It’s not me.That’s my face.But I put it on somebody else’s in...
31/08/2026

This photo of me got 45,000 views.

There’s just one problem.

It’s not me.

That’s my face.

But I put it on somebody else’s incredibly toned body.

And the response has genuinely made me think.

Because most days, this account looks very different.

I’m sitting in my taxi.

I’ve usually got my glasses on.

I’m wearing whatever I happened to put on that morning.

I talk about the women I meet.

I share their fears, ambitions and the things they’re struggling to say out loud.

I celebrate brilliant women and their stories.

And I share plenty of my own; including the bits that aren’t particularly glamorous.

Because that’s genuinely how I show up.

And if you ever choose to work with me, that’s the woman you’ll get.

Not this one.

So when an image of a completely manufactured version of me gets 45,000 views, I can’t help wondering…

Is this what we’re still rewarding?

Does looking extraordinary make us more interesting than actually having something to say?

And what does that do to the women scrolling through Instagram comparing their real bodies, real careers and real lives with images that may not even be real?

I’m not pretending I don’t understand why the picture got attention.

Of course I do.

But I also don’t want to build a business, or a life, around presenting a version of myself that doesn’t exist.

So no.

I’m not getting those abs before my next Reel. 😂

You’ll be getting the glasses, the taxi and whatever I’ve thrown on that morning.

Because I’d rather the right women recognise themselves in what I say than follow me because of how I pretend to look.

But I’m genuinely curious: does authenticity still win on Instagram?

13/08/2026

Save this if you are terrified of needing help

This woman had built a successful business over more than a decade.

She’d raised her child.

Built a reputation.

Created something she was incredibly proud of.

And then something happened that threatened all of it.

But the thing that stopped me wasn’t the business problem.

It was this:

“I’m too scared to tell my partner because he’ll try to fix it for me.”

So I asked her:

What would happen if he did?

Her answer told me everything.

She’d be less stressed.

She’d be able to think clearly again.

She could concentrate on what happened next.

She’d feel…

better than she did right now.

Yet something in her still equated accepting help with not being capable enough to handle it herself.

I see versions of this constantly.

We delegate at work.

We bring in experts.

We build teams.

We tell other people they don’t have to know everything.

Then when we need help?

Suddenly it feels like failure.

It isn’t.

Sometimes the most capable thing you can say is:

“I can’t carry all of this on my own.”

Because sometimes our need to keep everything under control…

is exactly what’s making us feel out of control.

If you’re the woman everybody relies on, I’m curious:

How easy is it for YOU to ask for help?

👇 Easy / I’ll struggle until I’m drowning

Wow! No other words. So glad to have seen this and especially at our favourite beach which is 10 mins from our house ...
12/08/2026

Wow! No other words. So glad to have seen this and especially at our favourite beach which is 10 mins from our house

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