Six Mondays to make your work your medicine…
…without hustle, self-abandonment, or sacrificing yourself on the altar of patriarchy.
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A ceremonial path to return the soul to your work
Come and gather around our fire…bring what’s sacred, what’s weary, what yearns to be restored.
We’ll root your week in mystery, rest, reclamation and soul.
May your work be a source of nourishment and joy.
May your work sustain body, spirit, soul.
May you find a new way to move systems of capitalism and patriarchy.
May your soul come alive in your work.
May you find the magic.
May your work be your medicine.
“Thank you for guiding us through a transformative six weeks; it’s been an honour to journey alongside everyone. I feel like I’ve learned so much about the power of letting go and of being seen for who I actually am. ”
Do you feel deeply drawn to doing tender, beautiful, impactful heart-work in the world?
So many of us do.
And right now, the world needs us… the soulful practitioners, facilitators, business owners, activists and community care magicians.
And it needs us more than ever.
But it can feel hard to actually work in this way.
We begin on our path with energy and devotion. We long to spend our days in service to something sacred.
And then reality steps in.
There are bills to pay. Responsibilities to meet. Money to make.
And because of how dominant culture has shaped us, we often meet those demands in one of two ways:
with brace energy (paralysis)
or push energy (hustle mentality).
Both are utterly exhausting.
The year’s end can be a sneaky culprit for this…
The pressure to ‘finish strong’. To ‘make it count’ (whatever that means…)
Plan, push. Squeeze every last drop of energy we can.
And already, our nervous systems are bracing for the year ahead.
What if we could stop?
What if we could birth a new relationship to our work - one rooted in reciprocity, rest and regeneration?
What if our work could become our medicine?
I believe it can.
It has been for me, and it is my deep intention to help you create that for yourself.
““Medicine brought a softening, a reclaiming of my power, fire, wisdom and innate gifts.””
A new way to work
A new approach to making an income.
A new way to stand for truth, authenticity and magnetism in what we offer the world.
This is a way to close your year with deep intention, clarity and the kind of gentleness your soul yearns for.
What will we do in the space?
Our work together will be rooted in ceremony.
Each Monday morning, we’ll carve out sacred space to be in deep relationship with your work.
To pause. To listen.
To lead not from urgency, but from heart, soul, and spirit.
To quieten the mind and open to the field of possibility and infinite creative potential.
My intention is that each week, you arrive to receive…
…and then carry that energy forward into one soul-led action that gently, powerfully moves your work or business in the direction of your devotion.
You will be lovingly guided every step of the way.
Your only task: to show up, receive, and commit to one small, soulful step at a time.
“In a world where we think of work as something we do, outside of ourselves and in detriment to our wellbeing, Medicine is the opposite of that. It’s a journey into our work as the medicine we bring forth and the one that many times we needed for ourselves. It’s an energy that moves through us as something being brought forth with reverence and devotion. If deep down you feel your Medicine, your work, whispering to you to journey together to nourish more friendship and regenerative co-creation, this journey is definitely for you.””
This is for you I you feel resonance with some, or all, of this:
You are tired of having to hustle in your work and want to find a more easeful relationship to it.
You feel called to do soulful, conscious, loving work, work that creates impact without replicating harm.
You are a big-hearted, socially minded creature, who wants to create work that is not only your medicine, but serves your community in an impactful way too.
You crave SPACE. Space to be in creative, contemplative relationship to your work.
You yearn to feel enlivened and inspired by your work again, regaining your creative spark.
You want a robustly-structured close to your working year - with magic, joy and a touch of mischief taking your hand and leading the way.
You have some flexibility in how you shape your time, or you’re willing to carve out space for your soul work alongside your existing commitments.
You are willing to try a different way: this programme will invite you to reimagine what “work” means and will require your curiosity, openness and participation.
This is not for you if:
You don’t enjoy group programmes. We’ll be doing this work in community.
You’re looking for someone to give you the blueprint or the answers. This is a portal and a pathway to your own sacred medicine, and only you can walk it.
You prefer to keep pushing, striving and staying in the hustle. This is a space for slowing down, listening and finding your way through softness, rather than force.
You need guaranteed, external outcomes in exchange for effort. Medicine offers clear, tangible practices and outcomes, but they are rooted in devotion rather than drive.
You’re not open to a counter-cultural approach. Here, we move forward by doing less. We pause. We rest. We let stillness do the heavy lifting. The process is the outcome, and it also yields real, grounded shifts
my story & credentials
Before founding Sister Stories, I held senior roles in broadcasting and was an award-winning documentary maker. I was used to doing meaningful work that reached millions, but something in me longed for more connection, truth and soul.
Sister Stories came to me as a clear, almost otherworldly flash of inspiration. The name, the format, the vision… it arrived fully formed. To this day, I don’t know quite how to explain it, only that I listened, I followed the impulse. I said yes.
Holding circles was my creative response to a desire for more connection, more soulful ways of relating and more truth. I had no 'plans' for it. I simply got into the practice of tuning into what felt most true and alive to me, found the words and images that best represented that, and shared them with the world. And each event sold out.
Over the next four years, I followed that same path - slow, gentle, attuned. I listened for what felt like the next right step. In 2021, it felt right to take the work full-time and within five months, Sister Stories became a six-figure business that supports both me and my family.
Since running Medicine myself in January 2025, everything has deepened.
I’ve reduced my workload by a third, including taking the entirety of the school summer holidays off. And yet, this is on track to be my biggest year in my business to date.
This isn’t a coincidence.
It is the embodied result of walking this path - less striving and hustling and grasping, more attunement. Less noise, less action for action’s sake, less feeding Meta’s content machine. More listening.
It’s been the simplest, most aligned and alive year of my work yet.
It’s a living testament to what happens when we truly make our work our medicine.
Over the years, I’ve had many people ask me to share how I built a thriving, soul-led business. I even became a CPD-accredited business strategist in order to do that work more fully. But what I’ve found, over and over, is this:
You can have all the strategy in the world, but if you’re depleted, disconnected, or out of integrity with your work’s true essence, it won’t land.
What matters most is your relationship to the work itself.
Being rested. Being resourced. Being in the right relationship.
Having the courage to resist the grind, the moulds, the noise and do things differently.
That’s what Medicine is here to hold. If you feel the call, I would be honoured to support you as you begin your own conversation with the soul of your work.
And in offering this, I must name two teachers whose work has shaped my own path:
Nisha Moodley and Hiro Boga, both of whom offered me not just the phrase “the soul of my work,” but the deep permission to relate to my business as something sacred, alive, and worthy of devotion.
What We’ll Explore Together
Over six weeks, we will sit in sacred space, a space which honours the soul of your work as a living, breathing being.
Each Monday morning, we will enter into Ceremony together. You’ll put down the to-do list and pick up the thread of devotion.
We will weave ritual, reflection and small-but-powerful action so that your work begins to feel less like a weight and more like a living ally.
THIS IS BOTH A CEREMONIAL JOURNEY AND A PRACTICAL RECALIBRATION.
We dream. We rest. We write. We move towards.
The aim is not to do more, it is to create momentum from a place of listening, alignment, and deep inner attunement.
These 90 minutes, invested at the beginning of the week, will steer and shape the rest of it so you move from a more aligned place of action with each and every step you take.
This course offers a reimagining of your relationship with work so it is not measured by output, but rooted in a deep sense of reciprocity.
As you nourish it, it nourishes you.
Over six weeks, we will move through four living phases, a framework that mirrors the creative cycles of nature.
Each phase builds on the last and is one you can use beyond the 6 weeks, so you leave not only with insight, but a new living, breathing framework for how you relate to your work.
At the heart of this work is a living relationship between you and the soul of your work, meeting again and again in reverence, care and a spirit of reciprocity. As you nourish it, it nourishes you.
Around that sacred centre, four anchors guide our journey,
weaving the soulful with the tangible…
The Four Anchors of Medicine
What we move through, together
soul:
ATTUNE, DEEPEN, LISTEN
We begin by asking your work to speak and truly hearing it. This is about meeting your work as a living being, something to be in devoted partnership with, not a taskmaster.
You create a devotional thread, a daily practice of attunement, that becomes your compass for how you express yourself and work in the world.
TANGIBLE OUTCOME
A soul-statement or visual map of your work’s deeper essence
A new devotional practice that anchors your week
CYCLE:
Release, Rest, Reorient
Here, we name what no longer serves.
We bury the outdated identities, the patriarchal contortions and contractions and inherited ‘shoulds.’
We hold rest and restoration as a central strategy, designing a rest ritual that nourishes you on a creative, sensory, and spiritual level, one that fits your actual life. We use rest and stillness not as something we collapse into, exhausted, but as the soil in which we plant ourselves to birth more impactful and aligned work.
DEVOTION:
Clarify, Choose, Step Foward
From that clarity and embodied quiet, we begin to root into mission. We craft a living, breathing articulation of why you’re here that moves beyond the traditional ‘mission statement.
We’ll write from the depths of ceremony, speak from devotion. And take gentle steps forward. You’ll choose one place where energy is leaking in your work and lovingly seal it with a boundary that protects your wellbeing. Through creating a strong container, your creative spark can flourish.
You’ll begin taking one deeply impactful soul-aligned action each week, not because you “should,” but because you want to. We don’t force, we learn to flow. What a way to be.
EXPRESSION:
Enchant, Share, Integrate
Here is where beauty leads. You’ll explore what it means to share your work with clarity, courage and a sense of magic, or enchantment. We move towards a place where you can be seen in your full expression, without leaking endless energy, forcing, or overgiving. Here, we weave what we have discovered in Medicine into your real, working life.
TANGIBLE:
One piece of soul expression shared (a programme or project, a poem, a new offering - something concrete and so utterly aligned.
A creative rhythm to return to
A softer, sustainable relationship with visibility and voice
A loving manifesto + activation plan for the year ahead
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Why This Isn’t Like Anything Else Out There
Most programmes about work and business will hand you one of two things:
a rigid blueprint to follow, or an endless stream of inspiration with no anchor.
Both leave something vital out.
Business coaching often pushes strategy, funnels and hustle hacks.
You might grow your audience, but it costs you your soul, integrity or sanity.
Personal growth circles lift your spirits, but don’t give you anywhere to take that energy.
Even ‘sacred business’ spaces often end up back at the same formulas, just dressed up in different clothing.
Medicine is different.
Here, we treat your work as a living being - something to listen to, tend to, and be in partnership with.
This is a PHILOSOPHY that, when you start to embody it, can shift the very foundations on which your work is based.
HERE, ceremony is the backbone of our approach…
…a way of recalibrating your nervous system and remembering that your body and spirit belong at the centre.
Here, every ritual is paired with a right-sized action…
…so you don’t just dream, you move forward.
Here, reciprocity is the foundation…
…your work must feed you, not just drain you dry.
Here, we weave community, mystery and pragmatism into a framework…
…which you can return to long after our six weeks together.
This way matters because:
You’ve already tried the hustle, and it burned you out.
You’ve already tried the mindset mantras, and they didn’t change the system.
You long for a way of working that is countercultural, sustainable, and nourishing
You know trust in rest and reverence, integrated with sustainable strategies, not guilt-inducing indulgences.
Medicine is where mission and devotion meet.
Let’s reshape your relationship to work so that what you create is both soul-aligned and sustainable.
““I wanted to let you know how inspiring, supportive, and nurturing Medicine has been. Sister Stories showed up in my life just when I needed it. It was a place to nurture myself as I moved through grief, came back to life and began to dream again.””
IN ADDITION:
Community: WhatsApp (gentle cadence: community and accountability-focused; mute when you need)
Replays: Available within 24- 48 hours; yours to keep, no expiry date.
Accessibility: Camera-off welcome; captions provided; low-sensory participation honoured.
“Not only has Gemma weaved together a programme with stellar holding and perfect invitations for your unique expansion, always respecting your rythm, but doing this with other women has been quite beautiful.”
PRICING
“Business coaching with Gemma was an incredible experience that continues to have a lasting impact on me. Her coaching, wisdom and advice has stayed with me and still guides me in my daily decisions.
Throughout our time together, I felt so held and seen in my vision, my goals, and the work I do. Gemma’s support was multifaceted: from business coaching and mentoring to refining copy, guiding me through moments of doubt, and offering deeply intuitive coaching.
What stood out most to me was how Gemma approached business, especially marketing, with such an intuitive, soulful, and at the same time strategic mindset. She provided powerful frameworks and shared deep knowledge about business and marketing, while always keeping the heart at the center of the process.
I’m deeply grateful for the sensitivity, wisdom, and expertise Gemma brought to our work together. Her ability to support me as a whole person – not just a business owner – made all the difference.
For anyone seeking tailored solutions, compassionate support, and a soulful approach to business – rather than one-size-fits-all strategies – I wholeheartedly recommend Gemma Brady.
Thank you for all the gifts you are bringing into this world, dear Gemma!”
FAQS
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No- the entirety of this course will be recorded, and available to you on Teachable indefinitely. But, the most potent experience will be accessed by showing up live.
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This course is designed for those who want to work soulfully outside the 9-5.
You may already be doing this but find it hard to keep going, or find focus; and if you have a business or soulful work path already, this will allow you to achieve new depth with your work.
It may be that you do not yet have an existing business, and instead are looking for a way to activate an idea or practice and deepen your relationship with it, so that, in time it becomes a reality. You are in the right place! It is worth noting that six weeks is not enough time to get your soul’s work completely up and flying- that takes time, devotion, consistent action and effort. This course will however support you with foundational working practices so you can keep momentum as you move forward.
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This course is not aligned with any spiritual path or dogma. People of all faiths or no faith are welcome. It will appeal to those of you who have an open mind and heart to take guidance from something outside yourself- that might be spirit, it might be a muse- we are open to all possibilities here. We want you to be getting out of your head and into the work of the heart. -
This is not one of those space and to do so would be antithetical to the spirit of the programme.
We are not centred around strategy, we are centered around the process of creating from a place that feels softer, more generative and sustainable in the long term. I have personally seen results from this approach consistently over 7 years; in fact, I don’t think Sister Stories would exist without it.
This is an invitation to develop a philosophy and new way of work that can sustain you for life.
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Our refund policy is in line with your statutory rights- you can receive a refund up to 14 days after signing up.
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No! Although we are a Circle organisation and my primary experience is in running this kind of business and work, this programme is for anyone who does soulful work.