Products from SCL for living your best life in your mid-life
Step-by-step guides to help you navigate mid-life with a spring in your step
Lou’s Mid-life Income Kit
£33
Lou’s Master Product Directory
£197
I built a global business from my sofa during surgical menopause – because I had to.
My life, and my sense of self, fell apart after an ovarian cancer diagnosis – the same disease that had taken my mum. A radical hysterectomy plunged me into a brutal surgical menopause, and the ‘Louise’ I’d known for 50 years was gone.
I was still a wife of 30 years, a mum to three, but I felt utterly lost. The brain fog was so thick I’d forget words mid-sentence. My confidence was on the floor. I felt invisible.
But here’s the part the gurus don’t tell you:
You don’t need to be ‘healed’ to build something. While I was navigating that chaos, I was also quietly building Formula Careers – I built and run it solo, and it’s now a global platform that helps thousands of people find their path to a career in motorsport.
I did it because it anchored me with something positive while my life was swirling with chaos.
I did it without face-to-face meetings, without a single Zoom call, and without ever dancing on TikTok. I valued my sanity more.
I found a way to build a business that felt safe. A way to turn my wisdom into a real income stream that worked around my energy levels and my anxiety.
Now I’m showing you the exact, gentle steps I took – so you can do it too.
From surgical menopause to sofa projects:
The real-world results
127,537
LINKEDIN FOLLOWERS
Built a global community through clear guidance and low-cost digital resources.
72,287
NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS
Thousands supported through a project that was created and is run solo.
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/formula-careers-news-6927210139510824960/
2,500+
DIGITAL PRODUCTS SOLD
An introvert with social anxiety = zero calls, no face to face meetings, just a project built around my own nervous system and it’s limitations.
“I’m not some guru promising you millions from a rented Lamborghini. I’m a real woman who built a real business in the real, messy world of mid-life.”
-Lou
My revenue when I launched my digital products:
And then there’s this feeling…
It’s not about the money, not really.
It’s about the ping.
That little notification that says, ‘You’ve made a sale.’ It’s a quiet, fist-pumping, ‘I bloody did that’ moment, all to yourself.
It’s the feeling of waking up on a Tuesday morning, not to an alarm, but to the proof that you helped someone while you were sleeping.
Another person sorted, another few pounds in the ‘happy’ fund.
It’s the pride in saying to my daughter, ‘I’m taking us to Rome. And I’m paying for it with the thing I made.’
It’s looking in the mirror and knowing you’re not done. You’re not invisible. You built something from scratch, and it matters.
The money is lovely, but the feeling? That’s the real prize.
