I built the POD because I was lonely in my business, I had a list of things I kept meaning to do that never quite got done, and I suspected I wasn't the only one.

You're busy. Genuinely busy. Seeing clients, responding to emails, keeping everything ticking over, and somewhere in the middle of all of that, your own business to-do list keeps getting pushed back.

Not because you don't care about it or not because it isn't important. It's just because you're in the thick of the reactive stuff and there's no dedicated time, no structure and nobody to hold you to it.

I'm Wendy Chippendale — alternative therapist, coach, trainer, wellbeing practitioner and founder of Serene Mind Solutions, based at The Serenity Studio in Barnard Castle.

I love what I do. I help women feel calmer, more confident and more like themselves using approaches such as IEMT, NLP, Metaphors of Movement and Reiki. It's meaningful, rewarding work.

Running the business around it is genuinely hard sometimes.

I found myself craving accountability, someone to share my monthly plans with, check in on them, and ask the awkward question of why I hadn't done the thing I said I was going to do. I wanted a co-working space where I wasn't alone at my desk talking to the cat. I wanted a coffee with people who understood the specific experience of being a sole practitioner in the wellbeing space.

So I built it.

The Solo Practitioner POD is a monthly membership, £33 per month or £333 per year, no contracts, cancel anytime.

It's peer-led, which means I'm in it with you. I share my own business plans on the accountability call. I sit quietly on the co-working sessions getting my own work done. I show up to the coffee drop-in because I need it as much as anyone.

That's what makes it different.

Want the full details? Head to the membership page.