Since meeting Sophie via LinkedIn, I have been overwhelmed with her kindness and supportive nature to help others through her Village Creative community. During Lockdown, this provided an essential and very welcoming focal point of the week. An opportunity to discuss our mental well-being, work situation and network with like-minded creatives was essential to get through this tough period.

Having experienced low confidence during lockdown, Sophie offered one-on-one confidence building sessions. Her passion for helping the creative freelancer industry is inspiring.

I first came across Sophie in the summer during lockdown. On LinkedIn at the time there was a thing called ‘The Daily Brief’ set by and open to all creatives. Both Sophie and I amongst many others regularly submitted our solutions to the briefs - we only 10 minutes to come up with our ideas. It was a great way to get some exposure and meet other creatives. And this is how I ended up joining Sophie’s Village Creatives with weekly catch ups during the summer through Zoom chats hosted by Sophie.

Sophie is not only passionate about everything creative and branding in particular but has an interest in all other creatives whatever their industry and specialities. Every week then and monthly now Sophie would send out Zoom invites and then host the meetings which would usually focus on a certain subject, for example; coping with working from home during lockdown - great therapy.

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