The woman behind
Perfectly Popped Balloons.

And Where it Went

From the lounge floor
to the world stage.

In the beginning, I was doing what so many of us do. Trying to juggle everything. I was a mum, a partner, and a woman carrying the mental weight of holding it all together, all while chasing a dream I wasn’t even sure I was allowed to have. I had no time, no money, and honestly, no clue how I was going to make this balloon business work.

Most days I was creating on my lounge floor, squeezing balloon jobs in between homeschooling and sheer exhaustion. There were nights I cried into a plate of beans on toast because that was genuinely all we could afford. We were skipping meals, properly skipping them, not “on a diet” skipping them. We’d sold the furniture too, so plenty of those nights I cried into a mattress on the floor wondering if I was completely mad for even trying. Great for the back. Absolutely rubbish for the soul.

I questioned myself constantly. Was I good enough? Was any of this even realistic? But deep down, something told me I was meant for more than just surviving, more than just “getting by.”

It wasn’t easy. There were tears, failures, and a whole lot of “what now” moments. But through it all, I kept showing up. I kept learning. I kept building. And slowly, things began to change. The bookings came. The confidence grew. The vision got clearer. That turned into something bigger than I ever expected. I’ve now supported hundreds of people in this industry to build businesses that actually work for them. Not just creatively, financially, mentally, and sustainably too.

What I will say is this: I lead with kindness. Always. Even when it’s not returned. Even when it would be easier not to. That’s who I am at my core, and it’s not up for negotiation.

Some of the best parts of this journey have had nothing to do with balloons at all. I have friendships in this industry that go way beyond them, women in America who’ve opened their homes to me, taken me in like family, sent gifts to my son, and know my actual life, not just my business page. They’re not students. They’re my people. And the quieter friendships at home, the ones that don’t live on social media, have seen the tears, the stress, the real moments nobody else sees. That’s the kind of success I actually care about. Success isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s just who’s stood beside you when everything else feels uncertain.

I’m a homeschool mum. My son is with me constantly, and he’s honestly my biggest cheerleader, the one who pulls me back up when I fall down. He’s basically my inner voice and my life coach, he just doesn’t know it yet. My life doesn’t switch off just because the work does, and I live inside my own energy the same as anyone else does. Some days I can give everything. Some days I genuinely can’t. For a long time I fought that. I tried to keep up. I tried to match what everyone else seemed to be doing.

It nearly broke me. I ended up in hospital, and that was the wake up call I needed. Because you cannot build something amazing on top of something that’s falling apart underneath. I had to learn to do things differently, to work with myself instead of constantly against myself, and that’s genuinely where everything started to shift again.

And then, further down the line, we actually lost our home. All of it. I want to be honest with you about this bit because I think it matters more than the highlight reel. This wasn’t the same situation as before, but it was the same feeling, all over again. This time, though, I felt more in control. I understood what was happening. I wasn’t the same person I’d been the first time. I’d grown. I’d built something. I had options.

That matters, because growth doesn’t mean the hard things stop happening. It means you go through them differently. Today I’ve got over 96,000 followers, a reach of three million accounts worldwide, and I was named Balloon Artist of the Year in 2024, an award I still can’t quite believe has my name on it. That business has taken me all over the world to teach, stages I never in a million years pictured myself standing on. Right now, I’m very much in a rebuilding phase, but not from scratch this time. From experience. From everything I’ve lived through. And I know, without a doubt, there’s another level coming. Another chapter.

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