About me
I spent the early part of my career briefly in banking, then in digital marketing — working across ASOS, Topshop, and Vestiaire Collective before building a platform of my own. I started blogging in 2013 with my fashion blog, I Go By Frankie. Over the following decade I worked with some of the most recognisable names in fashion and beauty, ran a workshop series called SHE Unleashed focused on confidence and identity, and in 2018 was named Cosmopolitan's Influencer of the Year.
Hello!
In 2019, at a time when less than 50 Black women had raised over $1m in venture capital globally, I raised $2 million from an all-female investor group to launch RadSwan, an award-winning DTC hair brand built for Black women, and the first premium offer in the synthetic hair market. I moved to NYC and within weeks the pandemic started, followed by a very difficult pregnancy and the worst supply chain delays in history, at a time when fundraising became more and more impossible.
I burned out.
In 2023 I paused RadSwan's sales. What followed wasn't a clean reset. It was slow, disorienting, and at times frightening. The kind of unravelling that happens when everything you've built your identity around stops working all at once. I stepped back from almost everything public. I stopped producing, performing, and instead retreated inwards.
I started asking questions I'd been too busy to really sit with: what did I actually believe? What had I been performing? Who was I outside of what I was building or how I was perceived by the world? Who am I and why are we here in the first place?
That period of deep stillness, what I now understand as a deconditioning, cleared the ground for everything that came after.
Yellow Canaries came out of that. It's a community for highly sensitive people moving through transitions — from hustle toward a lighter, more intentional life — where they can be raw, vulnerable, and met by people who get it without needing the explanation.
A place for women particularly, who've spent years achieving and are now standing in the gap between who they were and who they're becoming, lacking a container to hold and support their deep transformations.
They've written about me
Vogue · ELLE · Marie Claire · Cosmopolitan · InStyle · Grazia · Stylist · Glamour · Essence · Allure · Red Magazine · Sunday Times Style · Nylon · The Huffington Post · Evening Standard · Refinery29 · Black Hair Magazine · BoF · and many more
Previous speaking engagements
Samsung · AllBright · Soho House · Natural Hair Academy · Stylist Live · TEDx Brighton · Elle · Vogue · Tapestry · Unilever · H&M Group · Harvard Business School · and many more
Accolades
Influencer of the Year, Cosmopolitan UK — 2018 Marie Claire Power 30 — 2017 & 2018 Bustle Must Follow — 2018 Create & Cultivate 100, Beauty