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Evie Brockwell

Sharing my life lessons, product tips & overall useful gems of inspiration. I'd love to have you on this journey with me.

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Can you ever truly switch off from work? 👩🏽‍💻 🌶️

Idk about you Reader, but I had the craziest summer (and not always in a good way..) My closest point to a meltdown was in August.. I was fixing furniture in my flat until 10pm (f*ck knows what my tenant did in there), getting the 5.30am train to run a client workshop in London & then flying straight to Berlin. It was intense. I'm not really sure how I made it all happen. Product Management often looks like this. A rollercoaster of planning, launches, fires to fight, targets that are falling...

How often do you step out of your comfort zone ? When I was working 9-5, I actually didn't step out of my comfort zone very often. Maybe I'd do the odd presentation that would scare me, or have the odd meeting with the CEO - but it all started to feel kinda normal. The truth is, that most of the time we only make change when things get that bad. We don't make changes based on the potential of how good it could get to be (I mean think about that average relationship that you stayed in for far...

Reader did you know that the average salary increase when stepping in to product leadership is 26%?! It's one of the most lucrative career moves that you could make. Stepping in to product leadership is one of the best career moves you can make. More time to spend on strategy, actually getting to lead & inspire teams and really driving the direction of a company. But... many struggle with confidence, imposter syndrome, and knowing how to lead and inspire others. & don't even get me started on...

Ocho - Hola de Chile 🇨🇱 Life lessons, Product & the Podcast. What a couple of weeks it's been. A busy week at Manchester Tech Festival, and then a busy few days getting ready to leave the UK & finally flying to Chile! Views in Santiago I feel like I'm an absolute travel expert now. From packing and getting everything for 6 months to fit into a backpack in the first go, to spending our first day landing in Chile and getting up with SIM cards and exploring the local area. The transition of my...

SIX! From a cold, but sunny UK 😅☀️ Life lessons, Product & the Podcast. This week I worked from 6 different countries 🤯 Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, & now the UK! It's been a whirlwind. Hence the Sunday post of this newsletter instead of Friday. I absolutely loved it though. So much time to think, be inspired and appreciate everything. This week I'll share where my head is at! Life Lessons Have you ever sat on things, for a long time, because you’re in your comfort zone...

Mambo no. 5 (greetings from Zürich) 👋🏼 Life lessons, Product & the Podcast. I can't believe it's already newsletter time again! I walked home today, stepping on the crunchy autumn leaves. It's definitely cosy season, so grab a brew and enjoy the updates ☕️ 🍂 Life Lessons Last time I sent this newsletter - I was in Malaga for my brother's wedding, and what a wedding it was! 🥰 It was absolutely incredible to have all of my family together and be able to spend a whole weekend celebrating the...

Numero cuatro (enviada desde España) 💃🏼 Life lessons, Product & the Podcast. Hey Hey, & Happy Friday! I hope you've had the most amazing week. I can tell you, mine has been amazing, but also a little damn stressful. Read on to hear about the highs and hard work of van life, + loads of info on high performing Product teams. & a juicy little bonus - one of the projects that I had the joy and honour of working on this year. Life Lessons Here's a little reminder on why we need to take care of...

Newsletter 3 - Great to have you here! Life lessons, Product & the Podcast. Sipping some Rosé in the Champagne region! Welcome back to the latest in life & Product. I have a LOAD of thoughts that I want to share today - there's been a lot happening this week! There's also a lot of feeling in here, so I hope the lessons and musings resonate with you and each one of you can take something inspiring from this week's edition. PS. I'm back on the road! Skip to the end to find out where! Life...

Life, Lessons, Product & the Podcast. Thank you so much for signing up joining me on this journey, as I write about everything about Product & words of wisdom for life. I really hope you enjoy this and find it valuable - Evie. Life lessons... As much as Product is interesting, I also wanted to share some of the highs and lows of (nomad) life. I love talking about more than just work, as I think it is so important to remain human and remember what matters most - everything else that is going...

Welcome to the first edition of Life, Lessons, Product & the Podcast. I am sooo excited to welcome you to this little community of thoughts. I've been really inspired to start writing again recently, and I have had the most insightful conversations that I've wanted to write down anyway and thought that more people would benefit from hearing these words of wisdom - so here we are, the newsletter is happening! Hopefully you'll find it insightful, it will put a smile on your face & there will be...