We’re in the Sh*t and We Need Your Help
It’s 7.30pm Friday evening. We’ve just about to have family dinner and chill out after a busy week juggling work and half term with the kids. And then an email lands via my website. It’s [...]
First Steps into Film and TV – Switch on your potential – 24th June 2021
First Steps into Film & TV is a one-day event designed to demystify how you can build a career in the film and TV industries. 24th June 2021 | 9.30 am - 5.30 pm | [...]
Re-Finding My Discipline
It’s Sunday evening at 8pm as I start to write this. I never usually leave my weekly blog post this late in the day. But for the first time in a very long time, I’ve [...]
Be More Hamster
We are late to the lockdown party announcing a new addition to the household. And in true Grade / Derrig style we are bucking the trend, he’s neither baby nor puppy. Oreo, the hamster, arrived [...]
Lets Get This Year Started
It’s 5.30am on Monday 8th March 2021 and I’m feeling like this year is just about to start. It’s got a lot to do with the fact that today is my boys first day back [...]
Collaborating Virtually
If you’d told me a year ago, I’d be running all my workshops online and regularly working with people I’d never actually met face to face, I’d probably have laughed and said, “yeah right…!” This [...]
If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
This week I did ask, and I did get. Two Saturday’s ago, Dermot O’Leary was talking about me on his show and said “we must get her on”. I got in touch with the show [...]
My Ears Are Burning
Every freelancer needs sponsors. Sponsors are people who will talk about you when you’re not in the room and are incredibly valuable – but I wasn’t expecting Dermot O’Leary to be one of mine! Our [...]
Struggling to Find My Stride
This week didn’t turn out to be the week I had planned it to be. It really has been a struggle to find my stride and speaking to colleagues and friends I don’t think I’m [...]
The World Is Your Freelance Oyster
What a difference a year makes. This time last year I was in the final stages of preparing for my book launch and planning a series of live talks, podcast interviews and signings around the [...]