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Get The BookHer Wisdom is the business education platform, founded by Chloe Ndaya, designed to help women build and grow with structure and direction.
Discover Our StoryChloe's conversation with Abbie on JA Social Suite's show is officially live, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts now.
Read MoreChloe has been named a finalist for Young Visionary of the Year at the CCC Awards 2026, recognised alongside HSBC, John Lewis, and the Financial Times.
Read MoreChloe spoke on the panel for Do You Hear Me Too?, a student-led event at the University of Leicester, on being shameless, being overlooked, and becoming the woman you want to be.
Read MoreUnfiltered conversations with founders on what it actually takes to build, scale, and sustain a business.
Award-Winning Doctor and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honouree, Khadija Owusu breaks down the realities of entrepreneurship. From understanding your purpose to overcoming internal blocks like fear, perfectionism, and waiting for permission.
Community Leader Serena Miller, Serial Entrepreneur Georgia Jasmin, and Psychotherapist Vanessa Boachie break down what really moves a business forward. From why delegation is the shift between five and six figures, to how undercharging repels your ideal clients, and why passion alone will not sustain you without support.
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Her Wisdom is for the woman who has done the hard part.
She's already built something real. This isn't day one.
But somewhere along the way, the business has hit a ceiling, and the ceiling is her. Every customer, every decision, every late night. If she stops, the business stops.
The way through isn't more effort. It's recognising exactly where the business is actually stuck, and having a structured, honest way to work through it.
We help her grow through four things:
Most of what stops a woman from scaling isn't the market. It's how she thinks about money, about being seen, about charging more, about being in charge. We help her work through what's actually in the way.
Most women in business look the same as everyone else who does what they do, so customers compare them on price and little else. We help her get clear on what makes her different and why someone should choose her.
Knowing how to make money isn't the same as knowing how to keep it. We help her set a real revenue number and reverse-engineer the plan to hit it, while understanding what it actually costs to deliver what she sells, what it costs to earn a customer, and how to price and reinvest so growth adds up.
A business that depends on the founder doing everything will never scale. We help her build the routines and structures that let the business run consistently, so growth becomes something she can repeat.
The woman already running a business who has hit a ceiling and needs to scale without doing more herself.
The woman building alongside a 9 to 5 with paying customers and a plan to go full-time.
Before founding Her Wisdom, Chloe Ndaya spent years in the corporate banking sector, working her way up while quietly building something on the side. When she made the move from hospitality into finance, she was vetted and chosen by three leading banking institutions, HSBC, British Business Bank, and Metro Bank, all at the same time. She started her business while still in her nine to five, balancing both without a clear model, just a clear conviction: she wanted to build something that could serve women at scale, not just reach a few.
In that first year, two things became obvious.
The first was what she was consuming. Business education (the podcasts, the frameworks, the conversations about scaling) was coming almost entirely from men, and almost entirely from America. The advice wasn't wrong, but it wasn't built for her. Not for a woman in the UK, not for the specific mechanics of building a business that lasts, and not for the stage she was trying to reach.
The second was what was missing from the conversation entirely. There was plenty being said about content, visibility, passion, and the promise of making money. But almost nothing about how. Nobody was talking about business models, about the structures that actually create scale, about what it operationally takes to grow a business past the point where the founder is doing everything herself.
That gap became Her Wisdom.
But Chloe made one decision early that shaped everything: it wouldn't just be her voice. Because scaling a business isn't one-dimensional, and one person's experience, however real, is still only one perspective. Her Wisdom was built to be multidimensional. Different women, different industries, different paths to growth, brought together so that the woman learning from this platform gets the full picture, not a single playbook.
The focus has since shifted to match who the platform was always attracting: not the woman just starting out, but the woman who has already built something real, has paying customers, and has hit the ceiling that comes next. The one who needs structure, strategy, and the right expertise to break through it, not more motivation.
That's who Her Wisdom is for. And that's what it was built to give her.
Brand news, recognition, and appearances, updated as things happen.
Chloe's conversation with Abbie on JA Social Suite's show is officially live, listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts now.
Read MoreChloe has been named a finalist for Young Visionary of the Year at the CCC Awards 2026, recognised alongside HSBC, John Lewis, and the Financial Times.
Read MoreChloe spoke on the panel for Do You Hear Me Too?, a student-led event at the University of Leicester, on being shameless, being overlooked, and becoming the woman you want to be.
Read MoreChloe recently joined Abbie for a conversation on JA Social Suite's show, a step outside Her Wisdom's own studio and into a genuine partnership with another founder building in this space.
The conversation covered Chloe's debut book Be So Good You Can't F*cking Break, and dug into what it actually takes to master consistency and discipline in business. They also spoke about stepping into true leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome, and owning your power as a woman in business, while staying grounded in profitability rather than passion alone.
The episode is officially out now, listen or watch below.
Chloe Ndaya was named a finalist for Young Visionary of the Year at the CCC Awards, held in February 2026, out of hundreds of nominees.
The award recognises young people demonstrating a bold vision for themselves and the work they're building, and celebrates the drive, clarity, and long-term thinking behind that vision, not just early traction.
The CCC Awards are headlined by HSBC, with John Lewis, the Financial Times, and Mastercard among the event's partners, recognising community, corporate, and culture achievement across the UK.
Being named a finalist is a meaningful marker of the work behind Her Wisdom, and what it represents: a woman of colour building something in this space that hasn't existed in this way before, with the intention of creating lasting, structural impact for the women who come through it.
Chloe spoke more about what being named a finalist meant to her in a short reel posted on the CCC Awards' own page. Watch it on Instagram.
On 7 October 2026, Chloe joined the panel for Do You Hear Me Too?, a student-led women's panel and mentoring event at the University of Leicester. Students attended, and the event was hosted by Chelsea Aifuwa.
She spoke alongside Dipika Mistry, Family Law Partner at Weightmans; Ilouno Cyntha, Business Analyst at Bournemouth University; Henrietta O'Connor, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leicester; and Leena Sodha, Deputy Head of the College of Science and Engineering.
Chloe spoke about being shameless. It means not being afraid to say or do the thing you want to, being okay with getting things wrong, and learning from it. When you allow yourself to make mistakes, you stop seeing them as failures and start seeing them as a learning curve. That builds confidence in your path and lets you step into who you want to become.
She also spoke about being in rooms where you can be overlooked, spoken over, or underestimated. Starting out as one of the youngest people on a corporate finance team at HSBC, she was told by older colleagues that she would need about three years in the role before moving up. It gave her more fuel to prove them wrong, and to prove herself wrong too, because she had been conditioned to believe it. Doubt from other people can shape how you see yourself and your path, so you have to believe you can do it.
Her one piece of advice for the room was to visualise the woman you want to become, and work backwards. If you want to earn a certain amount, ask what you can do now that moves you toward it. If you want a circle of successful people around you, ask who you need to network with now. If you want a certain kind of home, spend time in places where you can feel what that is like, so you condition yourself to believe it is possible. The same applies to self-esteem: create the identity in your head first, then work backwards from it.
Thank you to the University of Leicester, to Chelsea for hosting, and to every student who came.
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Unlearning, rebuilding, and becoming the strongest version of yourself.
This is a direct confrontation with the habits, beliefs, and patterns keeping you stuck. Chloe Ndaya doesn't hand you a formula. She hands you the actual process, mindset, environment, discipline, identity, that took her from stagnant to unshakeable, and shows you how to walk it yourself.
Not a book for passive growth. It's for the reader who is tired of shrinking, doubting, and settling, and ready to rebuild from truth instead.
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Success starts with your mindset before it starts with your business. Unpacking how your past, your self-talk, and your emotional intelligence quietly set the ceiling on everything else.
Who and what you allow into your life will either expand you or anchor you. On letting go of people, spaces, and habits that no longer match who you're becoming.
Motivation comes and goes. Discipline is what's left when it does. On consistency, sacrifice, accountability, and doing the work nobody sees.
Embodiment, not achievement, is the final stage. On relationships, health, money, and what it actually feels like to become the person you set out to be.