What happens when near-perfect isn’t good enough? At 16, I came home with 9 A’s and 1 B — and instead of ‘well done,’ I got the question: “What happened to the B?”

That moment lit a fire of perfectionism that followed me into adulthood, business, and even motherhood. In this short episode, I talk about how that pressure became an invisible handbrake, how it shaped the way I raised my daughter, and how building Unplugged Moments finally forced me to embrace the mess.

If you’ve ever felt paralysed by your own standards or caught yourself preaching to your kids what you don’t practice this one’s for you.