FoundHer Fire

30/10/2026

When it’s Friday evening and your client sends in her testimonial of your work together.

Laura is a senior, brilliant women in business and has been a coaching client and part of FoundHer Fire.

Doing nothing is a choice. Choosing you is a choice.

Coaching - women in business - female leaders - senior women in business - business owners

22/10/2026

The saying that gets right on my potatoes is “if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life”

Utter codswallop.

I absolutely love what I do. And this means I also care deeply about it, about the outcomes, about my clients, about every single workshop, about every member of the FoundHer Fire community.

With that care comes passion, purpose and a drive to ensure every piece of work from a client coaching conversation to stepping onto a stage for a keynote presentation has been developed with due diligence. I spends hours considering, crafting and obsessing.

I think about my work constantly. It is part of who I am alongside being a mum, caring for my fabulous parents and the demands of a very needy cavapoo. Oh and a husband I collected along the way too.

This week I’ve had the immense privilege of working with the leaders of the Domains Operating model in Santander. A huge global transformation project with collaboration, co-creation and conversation at its heart. It’s something that has been part of my own DNA since August. And this week was the culmination of some of the work.

And blimey o Riley did it deliver. Human led leadership, navigating transformation and a whole heap of guided conversations looked at how the domains in motion translate into practical leadership

I love what I do. And with that comes a whole heap of hard work, grit, graft and a whole lot of joy.

Maybe the phrase should be:

“If you love what you do, you’ll work hard as hell and love every minute of it”*

Caveats include:
*apart from when you’re on an Avanti train and there’s never any signal or WiFi.

*apart from when you get a hot sweat on the underground in rush hour (keeping it real)

18/10/2026

Don’t forget to notice the ordinary.

The ordinary moments that matter.

Time with my dad, my kids, a bit of window gazing in amongst doing the work I love.

“A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.”
Brené Brown

14/10/2026

Everyone knows who to call when something needs fixing. But who’s on your speed dial when you need something?

You’ve spent years building your experience, your expertise and your reputation. You’re the person people trust to sort things out, make decisions and generally hold the bloody sky up when things go sideways.

And that’s a brilliant position to be in.

But I wonder how much time we spend being valuable to the people who already know what we bring, while giving far less attention to the people, perspectives and opportunities we might need for where we’re going next.

Because the next stage of your leadership, your business or your ambition might need a different kind of thinking.

A different conversation. A different perspective. A different person at your table.

This is why Resources, including our relationships and access to other people’s intelligence, are such an important part of the Human Scaffolding System I’ve created.

And it’s one of the reasons I founded FoundHer Fire.

A space for experienced women in business to bring everything they’ve learned, borrow brilliant brains from other industries and develop practical self-leadership strategies that help them lead, grow and crack on, on purpose.

With intention, perspective and people who get it.

If you’re ready to invest in your own development, expand your thinking and become more intentional about what’s next, come and join us in FoundHer Fire.

Or message me if you’d like to explore how we can work together to develop your self-leadership strategies.

Your experience is an asset. Make sure you’ve got the people around you to make the most of it.

Crack on, on purpose.

WomenInBusiness - FemaleLeadership - SelfLeadership - LeadershipDevelopment

11/10/2026

Hello to all the brilliant women navigating the strange and wonderful world of midlife.

Especially the ones awake at 3am Googling all the symptoms, trying to establish whether they’ve got a mysterious illness, whether it’s menopause, stress, getting older or whether they’ve taken so many supplements they’re now rattling and they’re all colliding with each other. I mean, I’ve been necking magnesium like it’s the answer to all the schizzle and I still don’t sleep.

To the women who aren’t feeling particularly tip top and still get on the Peloton, walk the dog, do six loads of washing, sort out the food shop and generally fix the world’s problems before teatime.

Meanwhile, we’re also building careers, running businesses, leading teams, navigating change and wondering what we might be capable of if we had a little more room in our brains to think. A little wink of “what if” giving you the nod.

There are the parents to worry about, prescriptions to collect, kids and kidults to organise; not to mention doing all the thinking for every human that lives in your world.

And somewhere amongst all that, there’s a woman with her own ambitions, ideas, plans and a fair amount of fire in her belly.

I’m Sarah Knight. I’m 53, I’ve been running my own brilliant business for over 24 years and I’ve spent much of my working life coaching women, developing leaders and exploring how we navigate change, uncertainty and all the life stuff that comes with it.

I’m the founder of FoundHer Fire. I wanted to create the space, the network, the platform I would have loved to find myself in. Somewhere experienced women in business can connect, share peer intelligence, build their own self-leadership strategies, have a laugh, figure things out and build the scaffolding around them to crack on, on purpose.

So if you’re a woman who is building, leading, fixing, caring, questioning and wondering what the bloody hell is going on with her own body and mind.

Hello. We rise together.

08/10/2026

When the pressure ramps up, what’s the first thing you stop doing?

For a lot of us, it’s talking to other people.

You cancel the coffee. Stop asking for input. Put off the call with someone who always helps you untangle things. Because frankly, you’ve got enough to do without adding another conversation to the bloody list.

So you put your head down and crack on.

I know this pattern well. I’ve spent over 24 years working in leadership, learning and behaviour change, and through my coaching and FoundHer Fire, I see how experienced, capable women respond when life, leadership and load collide.

And retreating can feel like a perfectly sensible way of protecting your capacity.

Except there’s a cost.

The very people who give you perspective, challenge your thinking, help you see another way forward or remind you that you don’t have to carry the whole bloody lot yourself are the people you’ve stopped making time for.

Your world gets smaller. And so do your resources.

It’s one of the reasons I created FoundHer Fire and why Resources are such an important part of my Human Scaffolding System.

We need access to other people’s thinking, experience and support, particularly when we’re navigating uncertainty and carrying responsibility.

So here’s something to notice this week.

When the pressure goes up, who do you stop talking to?

And what might change if you kept that connection open?

Because cracking on is something most of us have become spectacularly good at.

Cracking on, on purpose takes scaffolding. It takes your human scaffolding system. And it takes you to notice what’s happening.

07/10/2026

05/10/2026

Some days……

02/10/2026

You can be bloody brilliant at what you do and still want people beside you while you do it. Still need people beside you. In fact having the right people by your side is a game changer in your ability to crack on, on purpose.

In fact, I think the further you go, the more important that becomes.

FoundHer Fire has been built for experienced women in business. The founders, business owners, consultants, leaders and corporate escapers who have years of experience, plenty of ambition and absolutely no desire to figure out every next move on their own.

It is a room full of women who bring something to the table.

Experience. Perspective. Contacts. Questions. Ideas. Lived experience. The occasional “have you thought about it like this?” that completely changes what you do next.

Alongside that community sits coaching, expert support, professional and personal development and the practical application of Human Scaffolding, helping you build the systems around you that support how you work, lead and live.

And there are two ways into the room.

You can back yourself and join FoundHer Fire directly.

Or your organisation can back you through one of our corporate pathways.

For enterprise organisations, FoundHer Fire provides a ready-built external ecosystem for experienced female talent, extending development beyond individual programmes and interventions through ongoing coaching, peer intelligence, expert support and Human Scaffolding.

Same ecosystem. Same table. Different routes into the room.

Come and find out what happens when you have FoundHer Fire by your side.

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