The hardest lesson Zoë Foster Blake has learned about business.

Zoë Foster Blake is what you’d call a textbook overachiever. The former journalist (and blogger), the author of six books (one of which was made into a TV series – The Wrong Girl, anyone?) and is now killing it with her skin care brand, Go-To.

To us mere mortals, going from writing about beauty products to making them seems like a pretty huge step. A giant leap, even.

But as the 36-year-old explains in an interview with herself (yep) in the December Christmas issue of ELLE magazine, the two things aren’t all that different.

“At its heart I think ‘business’ is creative,” she writes.

“Seeing gaps, making useful products, earning permission to sell to your customers in a way that is fun and resonates.”

While Foster Blake is the first to admit she's not a classic businessperson (a statement with which she says her "accountant would ardently agree"), it's that passion for innovation that fuels her entrepreneurial spirit.

"It's the creation bit I love," she writes in ELLE. "The spark of a good idea, then acting on it. I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most. I wish I could do 50 projects a year." (Post continues after gallery.)

Of course, being a self-taught, self-starter means there are plenty of lessons to be learned. For Foster Blake there was one particularly potent one:

"'Faking it till you make it' is not as hip and cool as Instagram quotes would have you believe: it's a bit terrifying," she argues.

"You're making huge calls about how the products should feel and look and smell in the hope your taste is universal, and then guessing about huge, non-reversible and expensive matters like manufacturing and volume.

"I'm deeply indecisive, but there's no time for that in business."

As a young boy raised by goats, I never thought I’d be on the cover of a magazine, and a FASHION mag at that. Well slap me down and call me stinky, because next month I'll be on the cover of ELLE’s December issue! I KNOW. I know. It’s outrageous. Trust me, I really, really know. The beautiful cover above is not the one I’m referring to, however. This one is an EXCLUSIVE limited edition cover just for you guys, featuring an adorable intruder named Sonny. (He was a terrific mentor on the shoot, he really knows how to move his body.) (To the catering.) You can pre-order this cover - which you can't buy in shops or even from my car boot - today until November 3, and well you should. Delivery is free, ELLE is always great, and it’s fun getting mags home delivered, and first. Link to buy in my bio! Love, Gigi. #toomuch? #DecemberELLE @wolganv @elleaus

A photo posted by ZOË FOSTER BLAKE! (@zotheysay) on Oct 18, 2016 at 2:03pm PDT

What there is plenty of time and opportunity for is failure. But Foster Blake sees that as a positive.

"It's a chance to learn and grow, and is never a coincidence," she wrote. "Failure for the win. Or something."