Hi; It’s me!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve really introduced myself, Pursuit has evolved into a very different version of what I first launched back in 2021, and I’ve also changed quite a lot in that time. I guess the fun thing about running a creative business is that as you grow and evolve, so does your business.

I wanted to give you a more updated, rounded bio of the woman who’s behind Pursuit, a reintroduction of sorts, so you can get to know me a little better and see the kind of human you’ll be working with if you booked a shoot.

I guess we should start with one thing I tend to hide a little with Pursuit, I’m a horse girl (I’m sorry, I know you’ve all recoiled in horror at that statement!).
My first love in life has always been horses, I was raised in a horsey family, my grandparents were both involved in the equine industry, and my mum rides too. They’ve always been there, so much so that I can’t even remember my first interaction with a horse, let alone the first time I sat on one. They’ve just always been the centre of my universe.
I adore photographing them with my other business SkyLimit Photography, I love to ride (Although I’m on a forced break at the moment whilst I’m trying to find the right saddle for my very sensitve horse, Bull), just going out for a stroll down the lane gives my soul a little bit of peace. But more than anything I love just being around them, training with them, I’m obsessed with learning about how they learn, and despite horse essentially being a second language for me, I never stop learning about how they communicate. It’s a beautiful thing to be a part of their world and to be able to create such special connections with them.

I’m the middle child of 3, having a younger brother and an older sister. Although I grew up mostly despising my siblings (I regularly begged my mum to kick my brother out of the house because he was such a pain in the arse to live with), I’ve become quite close with them as we’ve moved into adulthood (I’m now 27) and really appreciate what brilliant humans they’ve grown into.

Having grown up living in the middle of nowhere, and having a mum who refused to allow us on gaming consoles, computers, or phones too young (Something I’m quite grateful for), we all got quite good at making our own entertainment. I was always either out in the field with the horses, riding around on my bike exploring, or hidden away somewhere with a book to read or a sketch pad to draw on.
I’m very much an introvert who finds peace in nature, so these ways of entertaining myself have followed me into adulthood. I like to be alone a lot, find peace being out in nature or being with my horse, and love nothing more than a rainy day with a good book and a cup of tea (Very much a tea drinker, I only really have coffee when it’s laced with syrup, sorry not sorry).

Powerlifting came into my sights when I was 19. Before that I wasn’t exactly sporty (I have the hand eye coordination of a blind duck), however I was pretty active, having cycled a lot as a teenager to get around (I can’t believe how fit I was!), I also got into doing HIIT training (Who remembers Jillian Michaels 30 day shred?), and outdoor bootcamps, as well as finding a love of running in my late teens.

Early days of getting into the gym!

When I changed employers, my hours stopped me being able to make the bootcamps, so I had to join a gym. Initially I did a bodybuilding split and breifly had the idea of trying out being a bikini competitor (Thank god I didn’t put myself through that), and then one day when struggling to hit depth on squats, a powerlifter came along to help me out and then proceeded to introduce me to this obscure sport.
It wasn’t long before I fell in love with getting strong as fuck and began to figure out how to train as a powerlifer. After 7 years of training, I did my first comp (This was only last year!) and got all the way to worlds.

AWPC worlds - where I proceeded to bomb every bench attempt

I guess I’m fully obsessed with powerlifting at this point. I love how technical it is, the way it forever pushes my limits, the fact that I’m forever learning new things (By this point you’ve probably figured out that I love learning about things I’m obsessed with), it helps make me eat enough even on the days where I don’t want to, my body feels strong and athletic because of it, I’ve met the most wonderful people through it, and also, I FUCKING LOVE the way it makes me look!

I’m a weird mishmash of a lot of different qualities. I’m very detail oriented, a bit of a control freak when it comes to my life and business, incredibly type A (I hard relate to Lesley Knope from Parks and Recreation), and like to plan everything weeks (sometimes months) in advance. If anything happened to my diary, I think I’d have a psychotic break.

But I’m also incredibly sensitive, I feel everything so so deeply (This was a really hard thing to learn to live with growing up), this sensitivity has been essential for working in a creative industry, and interacting with clients.
I’m a slightly chaotic human who likes to live a very intense life (being busy seems to be good for me), but I also deeply crave a simplicity in life which probably explains my love of camping.
I really hate working for other people long term, having worked as groom (A person who looks after other peoples horses for a living) for 3 years before getting into the photography industry, I found that after a while of working for other people I’d start to get lazy, struggle to get to work on time, and generally tended to avoid going the extra mile. Conversely, working for myself has seen me piledrive myself into burnout repeatedly and do ridiculous hours all in the name of moving my business forward and serving my clients to the gold standard.

I feel like there’s so much more I could tell you all, but at this point I’m sure you’ve all had enough of reading and realised that I’m a little….unique. But I hope that you like the weirdness that is me (If you don’t then that’s cool, please feel free to carry on with your day and don’t tell me because the recovering people pleaser in me will start questioning my whole identity), and that you’ve enjoyed learning a little more about the human who likes to make women feel good about themselves for a living.

And if there’s something in this that gave you any questions, my inbox is always open for a chat!