August is the new September
Disconnected knowing I have a plan for my return - Grasse, South of France
Most people treat August as a waiting room. A pause between the summer and the real work. Something to drift through before life picks up again in September.
But here is what I have noticed after two weeks by the sea, phone face down, waves doing the thinking:
The women who end the year differently from how they started it are not the ones who waited for September to arrive.
They are the ones who decided in August.
Quietly. Deliberately. While everyone else was still deferring.
September 30th is five weeks away. And everything I have been building for the better part of a year — Build Visibility with Elegance, a full day experience for women entrepreneurs at Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club in Richmond — is almost here.
The women who will walk out of that room feeling clearer, more confident and more completely themselves are making their decision right now.
In August.
This post is for them.
Five Questions Worth Sitting with Before September
Before I tell you about the day — I want to ask you something.
Five questions. Specific ones. The kind that sits quietly in the background while you get on with everything else.
Why are the right clients not finding me — even though I know what I do is good?
Why is LinkedIn not working for my business specifically — even though I show up consistently?
Why does something invisible keep holding me back — even though I know I am capable?
Who am I really in my business — beyond my job title and my service offering?
And in a world being reshaped by AI — how do I stay genuinely significant?
If you recognised yourself in even one of those questions — Build Visibility with Elegance was built for you.
The Day — 30th September 2026
Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club · Old Deer Park · Richmond upon Thames
A full day experience for women entrepreneurs. Strictly limited to 60 guests.
Five extraordinary speakers addressing each of those five questions — not with generic advice, but with real, experience-led, immediately applicable thinking.
✦ Henriette Danel — Opening Keynote and Co-host
Multi-award winning business coach and TEDx speaker. Her session addresses the real reasons the right clients are not finding you — and what genuinely works when you finally get clear.
✦ Sam Rathling — Featured Speaker
Global LinkedIn expert and bestselling author. Her clients have generated over £170 million from LinkedIn. Her session gives you a specific, immediately applicable framework for making LinkedIn work for your business.
✦ Chantal Dempsey — Featured Speaker
Confidence coach with a background in human psychology that runs deeper than most. Her session goes to the root of what is quietly holding you back — and offers a clear, evidence-based path to changing it.
✦ Keren Beaumont — Featured Speaker
Personal stylist and image consultant. Ralph Lauren. Coach. House of Fraser. Her session explores the alignment between who you are on the inside and how you show up on the outside — and what becomes possible when those two things finally match.
✦ Penny Power OBE — Closing Keynote
Pioneer, TEDx speaker and founder of Ecademy, the world's first online business community. Her closing keynote — Significance in the Age of AI — is not a technology talk. It is the most human talk imaginable. About what it means to matter, to be genuinely seen, and to stay irreducibly yourself in a world that is noisier than ever.
Lunch in our beautiful Sunken Garden. A prosecco networking close. A carefully curated swag bag.
Why August Is the Right Moment
Most people defer decisions until September.
September has a way of arriving faster than expected.
And by then, the remaining seats may be gone.
The deliberate choice made in August is worth ten times the last minute scramble in four weeks. The women who arrive having chosen to be there intentionally — not because they finally got around to it but because they decided — always get the most from a day like this.
Standard tickets are available now at £95.
Strictly limited to 60 guests. A handful of seats remaining.
🎟️Book your place here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-visibility-with-elegance-tickets-1989915078567
With love and renewed energy,
Gina
Founder, Events Upon Thames · Creator, The Visible Woman Framework
P.S. If this newsletter resonated — forward it to one woman you know who needs to read it. The right people deserve to find their way to that room.💜