Nicola · Founder of SHEA

“To be nothing more is to be more than enough.”

My name is Nicola. I built NMH Collective, and SHEA sits within it. On my own personal development journey I came up with a phrase that changed everything for me. Nothing More, Her. Because to be nothing more is to be more than enough.

I do not have to keep going above and beyond. I do not have to walk into a workplace and put on a mask. I am enough. And it took years of healing to know that. I am a survivor of domestic violence. A survivor of the criminal justice system. A survivor of raising a child outside of a healthy relationship. I am a survivor, and I overcome.

While I was building my career I wore that mask every day. I became so uncomfortable with everything I was asked to be, reading somebody else's playbook. And while I was reading those staff handbooks and policies, helping to build cultures for other people, I realised something. There is no safe, healthy, equitable and accessible place for women like me.

So now I hold organisations accountable. I teach them, show them, train them, audit them. And I work with women like me, women carrying limiting beliefs, so we can push through together. So they know how to show up authentically, with those barriers finally removed.

SHEA was built for every woman who has ever had to hide something at work. I was her.