Welcome to High Flying Design, the online magazine for women in business, and the ones ready to start.

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We launched as a solely digital platform in 2025. Within months, we were ranked #8 in FeedSpot's Top 50 Women's Magazines. Our library of Founder Stories and practical Business, Mindset and Lifestyle articles now reaches over 3,000 monthly readers.

High Flying Design is about growth, the business kind and the personal kind, because building something turns out to involve both. There's a lot to learn about running a company. There's just as much to learn about yourself along the way. You learn it here from women who've actually done it: sometimes a practical how-to from someone who's been there, sometimes just watching a real woman build the thing first and realising you could too. Our founder, Shannon Kate Murray, grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, a town people don't tend to associate with careers or success. What changed things for her was seeing it was possible, then learning how.

No "here's how I made my first million." More "here's what actually helped me."

Shannon supports Kurandza, a non-profit funding girls' education in Mozambique. Investing in a girl's education changes what's possible for her, which is the belief this whole magazine runs on.

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Meet Shannon Kate Murray

FOUNDER AND EDITOR

Shannon Kate Murray is the Founder and Editor of High Flying Design, the online magazine for women in business and aspiring female entrepreneurs ready to start.

Alongside running High Flying Design, Shannon works one-to-one as a marketing consultant for founders and small businesses, helping them look as brilliant online as they are in person.

She appears in the 2026 Blatella Film’s documentary about redefining the Essex Girl stereotype, and regularly contributes to Over The Edge magazine. Before founding High Flying Design, she was the Assistant Director of Marketing and Operations at ThoughtLDR.

Shannon graduated from the University for Creative Arts Fashion Journalism degree with a first class in 2017 and is based in Essex, UK. She started High Flying Design because she didn't have it when she needed it.

Get in touch: hello@highflyingdesign.com