During her final term at the University of Oxford, Grace Beverley wrote 40,000 words, sat for exams, launched a business, rebranded another, and hired her first full-time employees. “I felt like I was hustling, but I was volatile and stressed out,” she says. Grace realised that she was “the least productive when I was working the most.”
The world can often seem divided in two: the girl-boss brigade and the self-care camp. Grace, a former fitness influencer and now the founder of two successful businesses (TALA, an activewear brand, and fitness app Shreddy) with a million Instagram followers to boot, saw this divide and became frustrated that the nuanced need for both wasn’t being discussed. “I’d share my thoughts on productivity and get comments saying I needed to relax and chill out, but when I’d post Here, she shares advice on how to balance work and time out in a way that works for you.
