Nobody talks about men and portfolio careers. So we asked three of them. Ask what's happening with men and portfolio careers and the trail goes cold. The pandemic pushed women out of broken systems and into consulting, founding and freelancing, and the data on that shift keeps growing. On men building the same kind of life? Silence. So we skipped the data and went straight to the source. Quickfire questions. No filter. Turns out it was never about escaping ambition. It was about refusing to...
7 days ago • 4 min read
I want to tell you something I wish someone had told me years ago. Not about what a portfolio career is. Not about why it matters. You already know that part. You’re living it. I want to tell you what happens when you finally know your type. But first, here is what I mean when I say type. Most of us have taken a personality test. Myers-Briggs. StrengthsFinder. The Enneagram. You probably remember your result. You probably still use the language. And there is a reason those tests spread the...
14 days ago • 7 min read
Let me rewind, because many of you have joined recently and we haven't properly met yet. And before I tell you what we're building, I want to tell you why I'm building it. Eleven years ago I started living a portfolio career without knowing that's what it was called. There was no name for it, no framework, no audit, no map. There was just me, saying yes to everything, trying to make it all add up financially and emotionally, without a single tool in the world designed to help me do it. I had...
21 days ago • 6 min read
Last week I told you the story is the thing. A lot of you hit reply and told me you already knew that. You just had no idea how to find a new one. So today, that is exactly what we are doing. Whether you are still in the corporate job mapping out your exit, or already living the portfolio career you designed, you have probably felt this. You have the title. The salary. And a growing sense that none of it describes you. Or you have clients, projects, board seats, the speaking, the thing on the...
28 days ago • 4 min read
When was the last time someone asked what you do and you answered without qualifying it, without the long exhale before you start, without "it's a bit of a mix," without the two minute explanation that ends with the other person nodding politely while you're still not entirely sure you said the right thing? I'm going to guess it's been a while. AI didn't create portfolio careers, it just removed every excuse we had left for not building one. The infrastructure is there. The tools are there....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
SXSW LONDON . A PORTFOLIO METHOD CONVERSATION What if I let go of the title, the salary, the certainty, and the thing I actually want never arrives? That’s the fear. The quiet one. The one the most accomplished people in the room never say out loud. It’s rarely said at dinner parties or on LinkedIn. But it’s the reason brilliant people stay in roles that stopped fitting them years ago. It’s the reason they say yes to everything the moment they leave, “just in case.” It’s why the leap can feel...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The State of Portfolio Careers 2026 The only dataset of its kind. Built by portfolio professionals, for portfolio professionals. 500 of you have found your way to The Portfolio Method Notes, practical notes from inside a portfolio career on pricing, energy, visibility, and building work across multiple roles. That happened in a week, with zero paid marketing. That tells me one thing: there is a real hunger for honest data on portfolio careers. Not inspiration content. Not hustle culture....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
The first advisory role I took was £500 a day. They said yes too quickly. That was the sign. It was meant to be 2 days a month. It crept to 4. I didn't clock it at the time but that moment taught me more about pricing and scope than anything else. Today I have the receipts and the data. We are talking at least £2,500 a day. I keep hearing people use fractional, advisory, coaching, and portfolio career as if they all mean the same thing. They do not. And the reason this matters is not...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Most people don’t have a money problem. They have a structure problem. Whether you are charging by the hour and wondering why you feel exhausted, accepting whatever rate someone offers because you never decided your floor, or running three income streams with no idea which one is actually making you money, the problem is not what you are earning. It is that nobody ever told you how to build it. The 3 Revenue Rule After running workshops and audits with this community, a pattern emerged. Not...
2 months ago • 2 min read