The Connecticut Oral Health Initiative, Inc. 

Newly recruited to lead our fundraising efforts to support the mission of advancing oral health equity in Connecticut. I take a relational approach to development, building genuine connections with donors, partners, and community members.

Development Manager

Journaling for Growth

Chief Journaling Officer

CT Library Consortium

Community builder for librarians. First to fill the role of Events & Special Projects Manager for statewide membership collaborative serving ~1,000 Connecticut libraries. 

Known for my personal brand of magic - creating spaces where members felt safe to learn and grow, turning nebulous ideas into concrete programs and services, and planning and executing events so fun they didn't feel like work - I helped members of our community feel seen, heard, and valued, and provided opportunities for them to build skills to better serve their communities. 

Known for being an innovative thinker who imagines creative solutions to problems, often anticipating needs before they arose, I instigated moving our Roundtable program virtual in early 2020, teaching members to use Zoom and modeled how to run an effective meeting. (Librarians went on to use what they learned here to put on programs for their own communities.)

I partnered with the Connecticut Storytelling Center to launch a storytelling training workshop series for librarians. I conceptualized and executed three different vendor expo models, all of which were wildly successful. And I established a new Program Directory to connect libraries with performers and workshop providers. 

I led the national Take Your Child to the Library Day initiative, serving as project manager, growing the program in visibility through projects such as the creation of both community-centric and librarian-centric websites, speaking at the Public Library Association Conference in April 2024, and publishing an article in Public Libraries Magazine in Summer 2024. I partnered with EveryLibrary to create Advocacy Training webinar series to build capacity among children's librarians, and established State Ambassador program to build support and visibility nationwide. I partnered with Demco to create a line of promotional products for TYCLD 2025.

Events and Special Projects Manager

Northwest Village School

I was selected as the first certified library media specialist at this therapeutic day school for special education students ages 4-21.  

Tasked with creating our library media program, I transformed a humble bookroom into a vibrant library ecosystem welcoming and accessible to students of all ages and our teachers and support staff. 

I implemented a new library automation software system, replacing the traditional card catalog, revamped our entire collection of materials, assessing gaps for each section and curating age-appropriate resources, and established new collections of both print and digital resources. 

As the designer of library, information and research, and technology skills curricula that I delivered to students, I was part of our teaching team, delivering instruction to students, facilitating professional development for teachers and support staff, and collaborated with teachers on technology integration and co-teaching classes. 

I created safe and welcoming spaces for all of our students, differentiating instruction, employing de-escalation strategies as needed, and building strong relationships with our learners and instructors. 

I had the joy of surprising and delighting students and staff by instituting school literacy events including annual Read Across America celebrations, coordinated external speakers, and introduced graphic novel collection (our most popular and widely circulated school collection).

Library Media Specialist

Avon Free Public Library

As part of our children's services team, I had the amazing privilege of supporting children and families who came to the library.

While on desk, I assisted children and families with navigation of library materials, equipment and resources; provided readers’ advisory services, connecting readers with engaging materials.

I executed original programming for children including reader’s theater workshops, family thank you letter writing, and thematic creative programs connected to the Amazing Castle™ installation. 

I partnered with Teen Librarian on Book Buddies program pairing elementary school students with middle and high school students to foster reading skills.

And I brought my skills from my experience at Northwest Village School to tactfully manage challenging patrons (i.e. high energy and or poor in-library behavior) resulting in reduction of risk behaviors in the library.

Children's Library Specialist

Self-Employed

Family Sabbatical

Ketchum

At Ketchum (formerly Capital Strategies), I worked with associations such as the North Carolina Economic Developers' Association and NC Go! on events (meetings, conferences, legislative days), editing newsletters, and providing member support. I helped develop communications plans for organizations such as Junior League of Raleigh.

Project Coordinator

Journaling is one of the simplest, most beneficial habits you can use to create the life you want to live. 

And yet something is keeping you from it. 

Whether you’re completely new to journaling and don’t know where to start, you’ve journaled some but not found what works for you yet, or you’re a seasoned journaler looking for new ways to infuse your journaling with energy to get the results you want, I can help. 

✍️Why work with me?
If you were going to do it on your own, you would have by now. The information is out there. But you haven’t figured out how to make it work for you yet. And that’s okay. I love getting to help folks just like you create journaling practices that help you reach your goals. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach here. We start with you, what you want to achieve, and find simple, sustainable ways to make it happen. 

✍️How to work together
If you need:
🌱A LITTLE BIT OF SUPPORT, check out my curated journal prompt collections through my Substack newsletter. At just $8/month, you’ll receive a daily journal prompt designed to help you get to know and love yourself a little bit better AND solve the problem of not knowing what to write about. (journalingforgrowth.substack.com)

🍀MORE SUPPORT, we'll work together to create your bespoke journaling practice that aligns with your personal growth journey. It’s all about you and what you need to grow. And it starts with a conversation. (tidycal.com/amandastern/strategy-call)

✨ Beyond Journaling—Event Planning & Community Building
Along with my passion for journaling, I bring years of experience as a community builder, event planner, and facilitator. I thrive on creating spaces where people can show up as their true, authentic selves and have real conversations that spark connection, growth, and impact. Whether it’s a small gathering or a large-scale event, I specialize in curating experiences that foster meaningful connections and create positive change. If your organization or mission-driven nonprofit needs someone to plan and facilitate events or build a thriving community, let's talk about how we can make it happen.

✍️ About Me
I’ve been journaling since I was an angsty teenager, and it's my go-to tool for learning and growth. I've used it to uncover what I truly want, make plans to go after it, hold myself accountable, and celebrate success, all while creating a life I don’t want a vacation from. When I’m not journaling, you can find me with my nose in a book, puttering in my garden, laughing with my family, and trying to decide what to make for dinner again tonight.

Amanda Stern ✍️

Pippa Haywood

You’re a heart-led coach who knows you’re here for more...
You’ve done a heap of training, followed the strategies, and poured your heart into your work, but something still feels off.

You crave clients who energise you (not drain you)
You’re ready for more income but only in ways that feel aligned
You feel the nudge to deepen your intuition, but don’t know where to begin
You’re tired of burnout, self-doubt, and advice that disconnects you from your magic

You don’t want hustle.
You want harmony.
And you’re ready for support that feels as good as it works.

I’m Pippa THE Magic Coach
I help soul-led coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs experience energetic shifts that align their business with their newer, higher vibration.

Because when your energy is clear and your beliefs are aligned, everything else flows:
More money
Better-fit clients
Less stress + more joy

With decades of spiritual practice, deep intuitive tools, and an unshakeable belief in your magic, I guide you to reconnect with your power through tried and tested tools from my spiritual toolkit. 

My toolkit includes:
Inner journeys + guided visualisations
Oracle cards + dowsing crystals
Rituals, spells + energy healing
Practical coaching + joyful accountability
 ...and lots of laughter

 Current Offers
Now enrolling: my VIP 1:1 coaching package: a high-touch container for coaches ready to expand both their income and intuition with energetic alignment at the core.
More accessible options available via my website (and a few freebies to get you started)
 What clients say...
“I’ve gained a whole new approach to how I think about money, to how I bring more joy into my life, and to how to truly be myself after years in a corporate box.” Emily E

“Her work has brought more abundance, joy, and aligned momentum into my life (personally and professionally). As a solopreneur, I can confidently say: Pippa is good for business. When your energy is clear, everything else flows.” Shannan S

“Pippa's been leading sessions in my Growth Habit community for over a year. Her work is crucial to helping my clients succeed and get the heck out of their own way. Strategies + tactics are important, but they don't amount to squat if the inner beliefs aren't aligned. Pippa is a master of her craft. She truly delivers magical experiences that can shift you + re-shape you.” Robb G

 Ready to align your energy and magnetise your dream clients?
 Curious about how coaching with me could support your next level?

 Drop me a message, I’d love to hear from you.

Spiritual Life Coach

If you want to boost your manifesting prowess, this surprising tip is for you. 


Switch your manifestation books for fiction ones. 

If you are interested in manifestation, you probably started your manifestation journey with a book; maybe The Secret, Creative Vizualisation or a book by Neville Goddard or Joe Dispenza. 

Then you read another book on manifestation. 
And then maybe another and another. 

You're a switched-on person with more than a 2-second memory, so you probably noticed that every book on manifestation is saying pretty much the same thing - sure, it's dressed up in different ways over time, but it is all very similar. 

So, reading more and more books on manifestation is only going to help you so much, and tbh, it is probably going to get a little boring. 

But something that IS going to help you is to read fiction. 

Reading fiction, especially good fiction, does so many good things for your brain. 

Reading fiction:

🧠 Increases neuroplasticity. 
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to create new neural pathways, and that is exactly what we are doing when we use manifestation techniques such as visualisation, vision boards and affirmations. 

❤️‍🩹 Boosts emotional intelligence. EI is key to being able to observe your thoughts, sit with them and master them, and that is, in turn, key to overcoming limiting beliefs which are holding you back from manifesting your desires. 

🗣️ Improves vocabulary - the better your vocabularly the better able you are to describe and clarify your intentions.

🎨 Amplifies creativity; when we are more easily able to get creative, we are more easily able to be 'in flow', which is the state of mind required for effective manifesting. Creative endeavours also raise our vibration through finding our joy. 

🤗 Builds empathy, which supports emotional intelligence and also helps build within us the understanding that everything is one. 

Do you read fiction?
Drop your fiction book recommendations in the comments. 

🌟 ✨ 🌟 ✨ 🌟 ✨ 🌟 ✨ 🌟 ✨ 🌟 

For more manifesting tips sign up for my (sporadic, you won't get spammed, I promise) newsletter - link is in the comments below.

THE Magic Coach💫Expand your intuition and your income💫Energetic alignment for heart-led solopreneurs💫Spiritual Life Coach💫Business Coach💫Manifestation Coach💫

Guess who’s back! 

Lovely to see you here again lovely fay victoria durrant 

Whether you know her or whether you don’t, give this wonderful human a follow ✨💖🙏

Congratulations 
we survived.

Its official
the darkest days are done for another year

December 16th to January 16th are the shortest days of the year. 
A very tough time for many folks mental health.
Thankfully there is  literally light in sight now

Im slowly emerging from my winter rest cocoon

Im also finally beginning to rebuild my Linked In World after my old account was finally imprisoned for life with no chance of release.  

For a while,  I thought I wasn't going to bother with a fresh one,  but there are  many old friends that Ive missed on here.

If you remember me, my animal gang and my mountain life shenanigans please feel free to re connect . 
If weve never "met" but you like an eclectic mix of posts,  slow living, stress management witchy well-being and off-grid life... with a heavy sprinkling of dog and cat content, then lets be friends. ...

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me a middle-aged blonde lady, in a massive furry coat, with the backdrop of the most incredible sunset on New year's Day, in a port town in the east of England, 
 no filters / quick mobile phone pic...

Some of my clients are surprised when I start talking about the 12 Universal Laws of which the Law of Attraction is just one. 

One of my clients was so excited to learn about the others she began gifting books on the 12 Universal Laws to all her new coaching clients! 👏 Got to LOVE that. 

I use this quote by Zig Ziglar a lot when I am speaking about the Law of Compensation also called the Law of Reciprocity. 

This law is used a lot in sales - the idea that if you give away something for free, it makes people feel the need to give something in return. 
When I talk about it I tend to focus more on the energy of giving. When you give, when you serve, because you want to make the world a better place, through however many actions that comes back to you. 

I was talking to a client this morning, a coach, and when she spoke about the difference she is making in people's lives, she lit up, she sat straighter, her energy changed completely.  IT MADE HER MAGNETIC!

And that's how I know she is going to be so successful. Because she is leading with her heart - she genuinely wants to help her clients to get what they want. 
And - every person she helps to get what they want - is getting her one step closer to getting what she wants. 

Want to work with the Universal Laws to become more magnetic to your clients and create the life you want? 
Drop me a DM and let me know what that looks like for you.

When you are choosing names for your programs, containers or courses here's a little magic you might want to consider.

Ever heard of Lexigrams? 
This little-known form of divination can reveal surprising truths about who you are, hidden right within your name!

The term lexigram coined by the amazing astrologer, mystic and author Linda Goodman, and desrcibes a method of divination through the creation of anagrams. 

They are quite simple to use and I have found them to be amazingly insightful over my life. My mum taught me about lexigrams when I was a child and she learned from Linda Goodman’s book Star Signs. 

✨ All you have to do is take a name and see which other words, phrases or even sentences come to mind from that name. 
✨ Write down all the words you can see and then use your intuition to guide you to form sentences. 
✨ You can use letters more than once in a phrase or sentence, but not in the same word. 
✨ Don’t choose a phrase or a name that has more than 15 different letters in total (repeated letters are fine) or more than 4 different vowels. This is just because you would then be able to make too many words and therefore it wouldn’t reveal any insights. 
✨ You can also do this exercise with words and phrases others than names of people. Although doing it with names is so fascinating - there’s a certain orange person - ‘he who must not be named’ that when I did a lexigram of his name I only got two words MAD MAN. 

I always loved that what first popped out of my own (full) name when me and my mum sat down to do mine when I was about 11 was ‘wild child’ followed by ‘lippy, hippy, wild-haired’ - totally accurate then and now 😂 

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that when I got married and took my now ex-husbands name the only three letters that disappeared from my name were W A Y. 
I literally lost my way and only found it again later when long after we had separated I opted to change it back. 

Linda Goodman herself said of lexigrams that they can be ‘silly, trite, serious or sacred’ and so I invite you to look at them with this in mind and enjoy seeing what insights you can glean from them.

Is it just me?


I use Zoom a lot for my work, for 1-1 sessions, groups and for recording content for YouTube, Instagram and other bits and pieces too.
 I know not everyone loves paying for it when some similar things are free, but for me it's super easy to navigate and I understand it, I don't always love learning how to work software so sticking with what I know is good for my stress levels 😅 

I use it on the app and in my browser. 
But whenever I open it on my browser and it welcomes me with 'One Platform to Connect' my brain immediately follows with 'one platform to rule them all, one platform to find them, one platform to bring them all...'

The majority of issues people have in their business aren't actually business problems at all. 


At their core, they are most commonly problems with confidence, fear and self-belief. 

And they manifest as poor or delayed decision-making, imposter syndrome, and money-mindset blocks. 

This leads to stress, anxiety and burnout. 

These problems don't go away unless you face them. 
Until you get to their roots, bring them into the light and heal them. 

People often come to me with their personal issues - they want reduced stress, to sleep better, to feel less fearful and more confident. 

And what they get is that and more, their businesses become more successful, their bank accounts start to look healthier, and their client lists fill up with more of the people that they really, really want to work with. 

It's a natural effect of the work I do. 
More joy. 
More ease. 
More clients.
More money. 

If you are thinking that you can't afford to work with me. 
Maybe it's time to switch your thinking...can you really afford not to?

DM me today and tell me where you'd like more ease in your business and your life.

Thought I'd take a little peek at what Favikon makes of my 2025 as a creator - I actually loved it (ummm I got a #1 what's not to love 😂 )

Have you taken a peek at your Favikon story?

Favikon Rewind

5 Reasons why you aren't wealthy...yet


And how you can change that today.

Money, Money, Money

Just 10 minutes a day of abundance affirmations can make a HUGE difference to your money mindset. 

Listen to this for 21 days and FEEL the difference!

Any likes/comments/subscribes on my YouTube channel are SO welcome. 

Thank you and have a fab weekend x

Open video: Money Manifestation and Wealth Activation Affirmations on youtube.com

Money Manifestation and Wealth Activation Affirmations

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