Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
WHERE PREMIUM BRANDS COME TO GROW
Summary Twenty-one years ago, heavily pregnant and launching her first business from her kitchen table, Catherine’s old boss told her she’d never be successful working from home. In this personal episode, she shares the sliding doors moment that followed – and the honest truth about what actually made her first business, Cushie Tushies, work. Because […]
In early March 2026, Meta restructured its entire attribution model – and the change has disproportionately punished premium ecommerce brands because of the way considered buyers actually shop. In this episode, Catherine unpacks what happened, why premium brands got hit hardest, and the strategic foundation shift that lets premium brands stop chasing platform updates and […]
Why You’re Working Harder Than In Your Old Job (And What Actually Builds Freedom) The trap almost every premium brand founder falls into If you’re running a premium eCommerce brand and you’ve quietly noticed you’re working harder, longer hours, and with less freedom than you used to have at your old corporate job – you […]
You started this business for two reasons – meaningful work, and more freedom over your time. Somewhere in year two or three, that deal stopped working. You’re working harder than you did at your old job, for less money, with less time on the parts of the business you actually love. Drowning in marketing decisions […]
Marketing is the hat that doesn’t come off. If you’re running a premium eCommerce brand and you’ve been quietly burning out – not from the hours but from the cognitive weight – this episode is for you. We explore three structural properties that make the marketing function qualitatively different from every other hat a founder […]
Why eCommerce Founders Are Quietly Burning Out On Their Own Marketing (And What To Do About It) If you run a premium eCommerce brand and you’ve been quietly burning out – not from the hours, but from a kind of cognitive weight you can’t quite name – you are not alone. You’re also not failing. […]
If you’ve worked with ads agencies before, you’ve probably clocked something most of them won’t say out loud: Meta and Google weren’t built for premium brands. They were built for the masses. The optimisation algorithms, the campaign structures, the bidding logic – every bit of it is engineered around volume. Which means when you run […]
If you’re a premium eCommerce founder and your Meta ads aren’t converting the way they should, I want you to read this before you fire your agency, redo your creative, or pay for another expensive course on hooks and angles. Because in my experience working with premium brands every day, the reason your ads aren’t […]
Facebook Ads Not Converting? The 2026 Diagnostic for Premium eCommerce Brands Hands up if your Facebook ads have stopped converting and you’re quietly losing your mind… Look, using Facebook ads has been a tried-and-true growth lever for eCommerce brands for years now. But it’s never without issues along the way. I often joke that a […]
Everyone in Australian retail right now is having one of two conversations: “it’s quiet” or “what sale should we run next?” Our clients are having neither. They’re up year-on-year, they’re not heavily discounting, and they’re not throwing more money at ads. This episode unpacks exactly why – and what the brands who are quietly winning […]
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