How You Can Plug Into The School Hours Or Less Initiative
If you’re a mum or woman in business trying to grow something profitable around your life…
You already know the problem.
Your business doesn’t fully fit the time you’ve actually got. And no amount of squeezing, juggling, or “trying harder” fixes that.
So instead of giving you more to do…
The School Hours Or Less Initiative is built to support women both locally in Pembrokeshire and online to help you:
make more money, work fewer hours
& build a business that is profitable AND actually fits into School Hours (or Less)
There isn’t one way to do this. Depending on where you are – and what you need most right now – there are different ways to get support.
You can plug in:
– Locally (in Pembrokeshire)
– Online (from anywhere)
– Or a mix of both
Online Support (Work from anywhere)
Inside the School Hours or Less Initiative
(online)
Support designed to help give you:
– Connection with others on the same path – so you feel less alone
– Coaching and strategy – so you know what needs to be done to increase your revenue and profitability, in limited hours, and you aren’t the one getting in your own way of making the necessary changes
– Accountability & consistency – because sometimes knowing what to do isn’t the problem
Includes:
✅ School Hours Or Less Project (Mastermind)
– Big strategic shifts. Revenue, profit, structure.
✅ School Hours or Less Studio
– Consistency, accountability, execution.
✅ 1:1 Coaching & VIP Days
– Personalised, accelerated, deeper support, as and when you need it.
✅ School Hours Or Less podcast
– Real stories. Useful strategies. And deeper insight of what it takes to grow a profitable business around family.
✅ Free School Hours Or Less Community
– Bitesize coaching, strategies and support to help you until you are ready to invest.
Local Support (in Pembrokeshire)
Local support under the Initiative
(in Pembrokeshire)
Support designed to help give you:
– Local visibility opportunities – so more people know about what it is you do
– Local collaboration opportunities – so your network, rather than your hours, does the heavy lifting
– Connection with others on the same path – so you feel less alone
– Coaching and strategy – so you know what needs to be done, and you aren’t the one getting in your own way
– Space to actually get things done (even if you have little ones present) – because strategy means nothing if you don’t have the space to implement it
– Accountability & consistency – because sometimes knowing what to do isn’t the problem
Includes:
✅ Child-friendly Networking Meet-ups and Community (MIB Pembrokeshire)
– Relaxed meet-ups. And an online local community for real connections and visibility opportunities.
✅ Child-friendly Coworking & Business Growth Days
– Get focused and important work done ON the business, even with your kids present.
✅ Pembrokeshire Biz Stories
– Free visibility opportunities for your business locally that get more people to know, like and trust you.
✅ Pembrokeshire Women in Business Summit
– Visibility, collaboration, growth – all in one room.
What’s possible for you…
These are just some of the wins that I’ve witnessed from women who have decided they want a business that makes them decent money in the hours they’ve got, and then grabbed the support available:
Having their highest revenue months to date, without sacrificing their time for their family or their health.
Stopping hustling to get to their goals and instead taking calm, grounded action towards what they want, whilst already feeling successful around what they have already created.
Pulling their head out of the sand and getting a handle on their figures for the first time since they started their business, enabling them to make strategic decisions around investments and even starting to pay themselves.
Taking time off and fully switching off in that time, so they were properly present with their family.
Becoming masterful at prioritising, managing their time, focusing and getting sh*t done when they said they were going to get it done, so they no longer had to work evenings and weekends to catch up.
Streamlining their business, organising their back-office and taking the scary leap to hire their first team member to do the things they didn’t want to be doing in the first place, so they were able to spend their time working ON the business to grow it, instead of just IN it.
Overcoming the perfectionism and procrastination that had been holding them back, and launching their first group programs.
Stopping people-pleasing with clients, sacking their worst clients, confidently raising their prices and finishing their sessions on time, EVERY TIME.
Setting proper boundaries with family, and then enforcing them without feeling guilt or shame.
Not wasting time doom-scrolling on social media, or on anything that didn’t feel good or add value to the business when they wanted to be working.
Case Study
Kelly Sparkes
Luxury Website Designer for clients in the Flower Industry
When Kelly first started working with me, she was spending so much time on client delivery in her bespoke website design business, that she wasn’t able to move the needle on her scaleable business idea – which was to launch a completely new business designing and selling luxury website templates.
She was struggling to juggle the demands of being a mum, a successful business owner (doing it all by herself), and having enough time for herself.
She found it hard to switch off when taking time off, and often had demanding clients making requests of her when she was on holiday – to which she always obliged (and didn’t always charge for).
She had bold ambitions for where she wanted her business to go, but knew she needed to optimise her time in order to make it happen as she was already working flat out.
She also had some resistance to constraining her strategy, going all in on one niche and one marketing strategy, and some deep resistance to selling.
And she was waiting until she got to a certain point in her business, before she felt she could reward herself for how far she’d already come.
SIX MONTHS OF COACHING LATER…
🔥 Her default is no longer to people-please and do things that go against what she wants for her life and business, and what she believes to be fair.
In fact, she has put in place solid boundaries for others and she honours them – which in turn means she actually has BALANCE and proper enjoyable time off outside of her business.
🔥 She trusts herself to make key decisions in her business and doesn’t feel guilty or shame, even when others try to manipulate her into feeling that she should.
🔥 She’s confident in her abilities and expertise – to the point that she no longer needs validation from the people who she once thought were necessary to help propel her business forward.
🔥 In fact, she’s overcome much of the perfectionism and self-doubt that led to avoidance, resistance, and procrastination when it came to moving things forward in her business.
🔥 She’s set prices that now accurately reflect the high degree of quality and overall value that people get when they choose to use her services, instead of defaulting to fears around what people will pay, and underpaying herself/not even charging or chasing payments that were owed.
🔥 She’s overcome her fears to hire someone in her business which has now enabled her to step back from “doing” all the things that weren’t the best use of her time – freeing up more space for problem-solving, creativity, delivery of her products, marketing, and selling.
🔥 She launched her new business and then simplified it, her systems, and her focus, and now has scaleable offers, and consistent marketing to sell them with.
🔥 And she’s owning stepping into becoming a much bolder version of herself, as the true CEO of her business, having laid the foundations that will mean she can succeed sustainably, without burning out.
What do I know?
As a seasoned hustler, welsh farm-girl turned serial-entrepreneur, Melissa Tiers trained, LCS Master Certified Coach with an Advanced Certification of Coaching Mastery and a Certification from the International Association of Counselors and Therapists…I’m pretty confident in saying you won’t find my unique style and advanced skill-set of coaching anywhere else.
I’ve essentially combined my 8 years’ experience running 3 businesses (2 small businesses and my online coaching business), with knowledge learned from the top industry experts in the fields of time, productivity and business coaching, as well as having completed training and certifications from the top mindset coaching schools, therapists and coaches in the industry.
I’ve now coached hundreds of people’s brains and helped transform a whole range of different businesses.
And I’m confident I can help you too.
Not sure which option is best for your situation?
If you are looking for a coach to push you through your glass ceiling, she can definitely help you.
Maya Ris
“Just wanted to share – I worked with Kirsty intensively to break through some things I had been stuck with for a while. And in that time, she helped me translate what was in my head into a working business.
In one month, I did more than hit my goals. I created two downloadable toolkits, I’ve started Power Hour offers, I doubled my prices, I put out my first high ticket offer, and then another one – and sold my first £5k package.
I had never done so much in a month. I had never been that productive before. And I am used to procrastinating on things that scare me. But the funny thing is, it didn’t even feel effortful. It didn’t feel complex and difficult. I don’t know why but I think her way, her cool, practical head, just pushed me practically to be more productive than I’ve ever been before.
She helped me push through a massive ceiling of resistance and fear to get to my breakthrough.
I think she’s absolutely brilliant for someone at my level. Someone like me, who has been working in their business for years, but who is fed up with not making progress. Her coaching will change you, forever. You’re going to have quantum leaps in their business progress. Instead of it taking 7 months, 10 months or even a year to get to that next level, she helps you get there very quickly.
So if you are looking for a coach to push you through your glass ceiling, she can definitely help you. Thank you Kirsty.”
You became my guide. And you gave me the accountability I needed as well.
Allyson Cole
Before I started having sessions with you, I was not keeping agreements with myself around my time at all. I kept jamming things into my schedule and then not getting them done, and every week my self-confidence and productivity were going down.
I also have always thought of myself as a person who is a creative that starts something but doesn’t finish them. Who gets stuck in the middle and doesn’t finish it, and then jumps on to the next thing.
Since coaching together, I’ve written almost my first series of the podcast episodes. I’ve thought through my business model. I’m taking action. And I have written the content for my website too. So these are all really amazing things. I used to think I needed external accountability. But I’m realising that actually you can just get it done. That’s what people do. That’s how they create.
And I’ve also realised through our coaching together, that the way you achieve any goals, is through combining managing your mind and managing your time. And you helped me with both of those so much.
I can’t emphasise how important a decision it was to hire you as my coach. Because at the time, even though I didn’t quite realise it, I actually was in the process of quitting my business.
And I know I’m a good coach and I can help people. But I was at this point where my battery had died. And I was just flailing around. I felt like I was sort of drowning. I didn’t know where to go with my business. I didn’t know what to do. And I didn’t know how to do the process of building this business on a daily or weekly basis.
But you were so encouraging in the midst of it. You became my guide. And you gave me the accountability I needed as well.
So for anyone thinking of coaching with you, I’d say jump in. Do it. For sure. I now keep agreements with myself with my time. And I am building a coaching business I am proud of.
Kirsty is one of those gems in the coaching world that has totally got your back and genuinely wants you to succeed, whatever that looks like to you
Charlotte Davies
“Before I started coaching with you, I was getting stuck on moving forward in my business despite knowing that I wanted to work with and impact more people. Not raising my prices, and not launching any programmes or products.
I was excited to have help to come up with a plan to reach my ambitious income goal and work with more people whilst still working the same or less hours.
I love your supportive no-nonsense approach and insights into where I’m holding myself back. Having you turn those thoughts on their head. And inspiring and encouraging me to take action on increasing my prices and launch a programme. I also found it super valuable to have you show me ways to be more productive and have better work/life boundaries through time blocking.
I am now able to give myself a good talking to when the mind monkeys emerge telling me why I can’t do things. I am able to take action without fear of failure, and instead treat it as a step towards a larger goal, knowing there will be learning along the way. I have increased my prices with several existing clients and am charging more for new ones. I have a new programme and am now planning a launch.
I feel my goals are achievable now, and am excited to take action towards them.
To anyone thinking of coaching with you – I would say Kirsty is one of those gems in the coaching world that has totally got your back and genuinely wants you to succeed, whatever that looks like to you. She is able to respectfully hold a mirror up to the habits and mindset issues that are holding you back and show you in a realistic way that it doesn’t need to be like that. She is both practical and supportive, so if you feel you are holding yourself back in any way in your business, just do it!
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