How to run a business in sensible shoes

Erin Brockovich meets Fleabag, but with invoices. The first ever audio book for women founders of a certain age.Most real businesses are built in the quiet, unglamorous graft between school runs, tax returns and wondering if that chicken in the fridge is still edible. Steven Bartlett, of The Diary of a CEO fame, seems like a nice chap but he's 32 and used to be a rapper. I don’t do business from a podcast studio with mood lighting, I do it from my house, in between trying to get someone at HMRC to answer the phone and shouting at the dog for sitting on the printer. I suppose that makes me the female version of Steven Bartlett but for the elasticated waistband generation.I have built a business from scratch all on my own and then sold it to Ernst & Young just five years later. So I'm hoping that what I've learnt will be really helpful. Warts and all. If you’ve had it up to your eyeballs with jargon and just want some kernels of truth that will help you through your next business crisis this is it. I will not tell you to “lean in” (because you’re already holding up the entire room). I will not insist you “find your passion” (it’s called profit, darling, and it’s not a dirty word). And I will not pretend that if you manifest hard enough, the universe will deliver, unless by manifest you mean sending four shouty work emails before you've cleared away the breakfast things. So, lace up your sensible shoes. Pour the tea, break out a hob nob, straighten your elasticated waistband and let’s get to work.