Crafted by Heart

Crafted by Heart: Living and Leading with Love

What if leadership, in life and work, didn't demand performance, perfection, or burning yourself out just to belong?

"Zoe is a true visionary, with feet firmly on ancient and intuitive soil. She is a fire starter in the most healing of ways."
- Donna Ashworth, Sunday Times bestselling poet and author

Crafted by Heart is a bold reimagining of women's leadership in life and work. Inspired by Saint Brigid-the flame keeper, well tender, and guardian of creative life. Zoe invites readers to meet Bridget: the quiet, courageous leader within us all.
Through seven grounded invitations, intimate storytelling, poetry, and reflective practices. This book reframes leadership as something lived and deeply human, rooted in courage, compassion, creativity, truth, and the joy of being fully, fiercely yourself.

This full‑colour paperback is infused with vivid photography and unmuted, spacious pages designed to help slow down, breathe, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. More than a book, it is an energetic experience - a luminous gift to yourself to return to again and again, each time meeting its wisdom in a new way.

At the heart of this vision is Zoe's experience founding her charity, Silk Elephant, during the COVID pandemic. She honours the remarkable women who stepped forward-women who stitched comfort into care, turning their homes into hubs of fierce generosity and shared strength. Their hands and hearts transformed a time of fear into a circle of community, reshaping Zoe's understanding of true leadership.

Crafted by Heart is for women leading teams, families, communities, organisations-or their own lives-who seek clarity, conscience, strength, softness, conviction, and care.
From boardrooms to kitchen tables, moments of grief to acts of everyday bravery, this book meets you where you are and invites you to rise and embrace your wholeness with love.

The fire has already been lit.
This book shows you how to tend it.