WTF File 002
Pissing in the wind.
Jade, rebuilding with ADHD, autism, perimenopause and piss-all patience.
Make it make sense
I’m doing the work. I’ve pushed through the reluctance to be visible. I’m putting ideas into the world, reaching out and trying to turn what I know into paid work.
I’ve got skills. I’m a nerd who loves work. I’m keen to crack on.
And some days I genuinely can’t tell whether I’m rebuilding or just pissing in the wind.
Money has moved through the cannabis and CBD sector. So who has benefited, and where does that leave the people who built its foundations and are still waiting to be paid?
So make it make sense.
Previously, in the WTF Files
Quick recap, for anyone who missed Episode 001.
I built things. I trusted people. Then I waved goodbye to £4m and my sense of identity. LOL.
Apparently that’s character-building. I now have enough character to open a small museum. Admission is free, obviously. Nobody else is paying either.
Lesson learned? Several.Which brings us to Little Fish Labs. I transferred ownership to VOR Supplements following an offer of support, on a promise that the loans my mum and I had put into the business would be honoured.
I was going through hell, spending my life savings on lawyers fighting to get the money I was owed or my business back. I was in distress, and that offer of support mattered.
Neither happened. I’m just broke now. Fun times.
VOR Supplements Ltd
The Little Fish Labs loans
- My director’s loan to Little Fish Labs £91,842.68 OWED BY VOR SUPPLEMENTS LTD · UNPAID Jade Proudman.
- My mum’s loan to Little Fish Labs £18,526.36 OWED BY VOR SUPPLEMENTS LTD · UNPAID Eileen Biggins. Her money, not mine.
Balances from Little Fish Labs Limited’s management accounts at 31 July 2025. VOR Supplements’ repayment obligation is my stated position from my records of the ownership transfer and the promise to honour the loans. Two separate loans, not one total.
Another insolvency. Another question.
VOR Supplements Ltd
Company number 16026915 · In liquidation, according to Companies House
- Case typeCompulsory liquidation
- Petition1 June 2026
- Winding up began15 September 2026
- Dealt with byThe Official Receiver, Nottingham
VOR Supplements Ltd is now in compulsory liquidation. My position is that it agreed to honour repayment of the loans when I transferred ownership of Little Fish Labs to it. The loans remain unpaid.
A liquidation doesn’t mean creditors get nothing, and it doesn’t mean they get paid. The Official Receiver now deals with the company’s affairs.
Liam McGreevy & Darren Dinnage
Directors of VOR Supplements Ltd, according to Companies House
After publishing my last article, I received a phone call advising me of news that was another kick in the tits.
If you read Episode 001, you’ll know both names. Liam McGreevy signed for VOR GRP LTD when I transferred Little Fish Labs. Darren Dinnage is the person I sent a cease-and-desist notice to about the Little Fish Labs website. Companies House names them both as directors of VOR Supplements Ltd.
I learned about this liquidation while both loans, my mum’s included, remain unpaid. According to my records, VOR Supplements promised to honour them when I transferred ownership of Little Fish Labs. Now I want to know what this liquidation means for repayment.
This is my question, not an accusation. I don’t know where the money went. That’s why I’m asking.
Where did the money go?
Before the cannabis and CBD sector was a pitch-deck opportunity, someone had to build it. Explain products. Earn trust. Support customers. Do the unglamorous work that makes a business possible.
I founded Savage Cabbage in 2016. I put years of work, ideas and personal savings into businesses and brands. A few others I know ran themselves ragged establishing the foundations of the sector too.
Soooooo much money has changed hands.
Who is it benefiting?
Investment announcements, valuations and acquisition prices make big headlines. They do not tell us how much cash reached the people doing the work. A deal can involve shares, instalments or conditions. My own experience is of commitments that remain unpaid.
“The only number that pays a mortgage is the one that lands in your account.”
I don’t have the whole sector’s bank statements. I have my own records, and conversations with other people still chasing payment. These are the questions I want answered:
- Who actually received the money behind the announcements?
- What reached the founders, staff and suppliers who built the businesses?
- When a company fails, who has already been paid—and who is still waiting?
Or, better still, a bank transfer.
Meanwhile, in an actual woman’s life
By now, I’d planned to be medically retired.
Plot twist.Instead, I’m in my forties, rebuilding with ADHD, autism, perimenopause and piss-all patience. I’m back to staring down the barrel of repossession of my home.
I’ve spent months in the house. That doesn’t mean the ideas stopped. I’m a nerd who loves work. I’ve got skills. I’m keen to crack on. Wanting to work and needing work that fits my capacity can both be true.
The life I’d planned assumed I could step back for medical reasons. Now I’m trying to work out how to move forward with the health I have, rather than waiting to become a different person.
During a very difficult stretch, I handed my car keys to my son because I was afraid I might deliberately hurt myself while driving. That was a protective decision. I’m safe now, and I’m being honest about how difficult that period became.
I know others like me. Women doing the maths on health, capacity, cashflow and the roof over their heads. Women who still have things to contribute, even when life has knocked the stuffing out of them.
This is my experience of navigating ADHD, autism and perimenopause. I’m not speaking for every woman. I am asking where women like me fit when we still want to work, but the route back is so bloody difficult.
Still full of ideas.Fresh out of spare patience.
Apparently, everyone else made £50k before lunch
Then I open my phone.
“I made £50k in a day.”
Wonderful. Can you pay my invoice?If that’s true, good for them. But those posts land differently when you’re chasing money, looking for work and worrying about losing your home.
The jobs market is mental. The more people I talk to, the more I hear about invoices left unpaid, unanswered messages and conversations that never turn into anything.
When did payment become optional?
That’s what I’m hearing from people. It’s what I’ve experienced too. You deliver the work, then somehow chasing payment becomes another job—one nobody is paying you to do.
Ghosting gets talked about as a dating problem. In business, an unanswered payment request means someone is still trying to budget around money that hasn’t arrived.
If I see one more “£50k in a day” post, I may fling my phone out of the fucking window.
Its continued survivalis becoming an achievement.
I still want to work
I haven’t lost my appetite for work. I love it. I want to use what I know, help solve a real problem and be paid for it.
I’m good at connecting product to community, supporting founders and leaders, and unpicking the rolled-up ball of mess that a business problem can become.
- Pattern spotting. Finding the connection or problem that needs attention.
- Deep research. Getting into the detail and making it useful.
- Product and community. Connecting what a business makes with the people it is for.
- Founder experience. Understanding the human and commercial cost of building.
- Untangling. Helping someone turn a complicated mess into a workable next step.
Being open about what I’ve lived through doesn’t erase those skills. Neither does having limits on my capacity. It helps me be clearer about the work I can take on and do well.
If you’re a founder or leader with something that needs untangling, I’d like to hear about it. Properly scoped consultancy. Clear commitments. Payment on time.
Wild concept, I know.Rebuilding, or pissing in the wind?
I’m still here. Make it make sense.
Stay safe, kids x
Jade
