I run Hey There, and I make practical resources for people who are trying to build a business around a life that's already quite full.

That's the short version. Here's the longer one.

I've been the business that looked fine

For years I ran a stationery business. From the outside it was going well. Growing numbers, nice comments, lovely photos.

Behind the scenes I was exhausted, making a lot less than anyone assumed, and quietly wondering why something that looked like success felt so heavy.

I'd bought the courses. Downloaded the workbooks. Followed the advice. And the advice all seemed to be written for someone with more time, more energy and fewer people depending on them than I had.

So I'd try to keep up, fall behind, and assume the problem was me.

It wasn't me. It was the plan

I was running a business around hospital appointments, caring for my son, and health that doesn't always cooperate. Some weeks I had energy. Some weeks I had almost none.

None of the advice accounted for that. It assumed a person with a full week, a quiet house and a steady tank.

Once I stopped measuring myself against that person, things got easier. Not because I found a better system, but because I finally made a plan that fit the life I actually had.

That's the whole idea behind Hey There.

What I make

Practical, finished resources. Templates, worksheets, tools. Things you open and use, rather than things you have to work through first.

No course to complete. No membership to keep up with. No community you'll feel guilty for ignoring.

You buy the thing, you use the thing, and it makes something a bit easier. That's it.

Who it's for

People building something meaningful around real life, not instead of it.

You might be working a full-time job alongside it. Caring for children or family. Managing chronic illness or burnout. Or just carrying the ordinary invisible weight of being a person with a lot on.

You've probably got plenty of ideas and not much headspace. You don't need more information. You need someone to make the next bit simpler.

Where to start

The Free Library is the best place. Templates, checklists and a few things I wish someone had handed me years ago. It's free, and it's genuinely useful rather than a taster designed to make you buy something.

Have a look. See if it makes today a bit easier.

Big love, Clare 💛