A little about me
I've built three businesses. The first completely burned me out. The second showed me what could change. The third is a whole different story.
I'm Hannah Crawford, and I've founded three businesses: a theatre production company, my coaching practice, and Han With A Van, a removals network for women and non-binary movers.
My story
My first business taught me a huge amount about project management, leadership, raising money and making ambitious things happen. It also completely burned me out. I was trying to save everyone else, be everything to everyone and put far too much pressure on myself to prove I was worthy of having a successful production company.
When the theatres closed during the pandemic, I started coaching. When they reopened, I rebuilt the production company in a far more sustainable way and kept growing my coaching practice alongside it. Coaching other founders taught me an awful lot, and it's where I really honed the way I work.
By the time I started Han With A Van, I had done a lot of work on myself. I could see the fears coming. Fear of making mistakes, being rejected for my prices, trusting people and delegating, expanding, building tech stacks, meeting investors, negotiating influencer brand deals and taking up space in a male-dominated industry.
Those fears still showed up. I just stopped letting them make the decisions for me.
I regulated, stayed curious, sorted things before they became problems and kept moving.
Han With A Van is now rapidly scaling, takes up less than half my working time and shows no sign of slowing down. And it will never be allowed to take over my life. In fact, I'm already sketching out plans for my next start-up.
That difference matters to me because I didn't start this journey with an easy foundation. I came from an abusive childhood home where my self-worth wasn't simply eroded. It was never properly established in the first place. I've spoken about that publicly, and I know what it is to begin this work without the confidence or internal sense of worth that other people might take for granted.
I made mistakes. I figured things out in the slow lane. I learned through trial and error, often without the support I needed.
Coaching has shaped the way I work as much as building my own businesses has. I bring both into our sessions. We look at what's happening underneath your decisions and put practical strategy around the changes you want to make. We work on the emotional patterns and the actual business problem in the same session, so you can make decisions that work for you and your business.
My own business journey has shown me what's possible when I stop letting fear make the decisions and deal with problems before they become bigger ones. That's the kind of work I help my clients do too.
My work as a founder
I've built a business that's getting noticed.
Han With A Van, the removals network I founded for women and non-binary movers, has been featured across national newspapers, magazines and radio.
The coverage tells the story of the business I've built, the problems we're solving and what it takes to grow a company in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
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