Trisha has crafted a unique blend of cozy mystery with crucial mindsets and success strategies – all laced with her wit and charm. A valuable read that’s fun throughout!

Margie Warrel – Author of ‘You’ve Got This’

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This book has been written with love and fuelled by oodles of real life stories.  It’s a tool to ramp up your self-awareness as a business owner. 

• Are you a frustrated, but fabulous, female business owner who feels like you are losing motivation, passion, personality and power?
• Are you feeling stuck in the traps of people-pleasing, blurred boundaries and conformity?
• Are you driven, but don’t feel like you are in the driving seat of yourself or your small business?

• This book will get you unsquashed. You will be visible and credible as the authentic you with a thriving small business rather than a ‘sort of surviving’ business.
• The Mystery of the Squashed Self is a business book with a difference – full of value wrapped in warmth and humour. This is for the thinking – maybe over-thinking – woman growing (or changing) their own business – and falling into self-sabotaging slumps.  Oh yes – we all have an inner squasher –  bit of impostor syndrome …. call it what you may – it keeps popping up! 
• The Mystery of the Squashed Self will help you understand the drivers of your inner critic.
• The eight cases are built around real stories shared by my clients, as well as my personal experience of setting up a business, self-squashing – and finally unsquashing!
• Spot the symptoms and effects of self-squashing, then understand the possible causes – you might be surprised!
• WIth each case there is a ‘crack your own case’ action to take. Real story, real research and real action.

You might feel I have read your mind!

Between the ‘setting the scene’ and ‘big reveal’ chapters – you hear the stories of 8 ‘stuck’ business owners when they knock on the door of Private Investigator Lewis. Clues are spotted.

The Investigator promptly shares her notes with colleague Professor P – who explains the drivers behind the behaviours and feelings. She shares research and quotes that inform the Investigator’s report and recommendations.