Yearly Archives: 2018

Last night (13th December) I was invited to be the speaker the Carol Concert hosted by Honeypot Children's Charity, who , with the support of trustees, donations and the amazing work of their staff and volunteers, provide respite and love to 5-12 year old carers. I thought I would share my talk, relevant to all of us as we approach the Christmas period. I hope you can enjoy it too and reminds us all the real message of Christmas...to give and have.... Rest, respite and LOVE Giving a speech at such an auspicious event, in front of the most amazing…

This time last year I stepped away from business and realised I had some massive healing to go through. 20 years of business ownership, 26 years of motherhood. Many experiences of joys, but many experiences of pain. On the 30th November 2017, I had a huge physical shock in the form of hallucinations while delivering a workshop. The faces in front of me changed into faces from my past, many of them were the trolls that had hurt me deeply. At that time I was putting myself through an insane amount of stress and exhaustion. I decided, with the love…

This is a dynamic Blog in which I will be adding new information in the form of people, websites, articles, TEDTalks etc to add to the content I feel would hep the reders of my book, Business is Personal. I am very keen to promote the information that I learn from and enjoy and therefore the originators of this information. It is in addition to the information I want to reference that is in my book, all captured here Chapter One Update - Business is Personal Chapter Two Update - Being Broken is Personal Chapter Three Update - You are…

  I delivered a talk to an amazing group of Graduates on 26th November 2018. They were graduating from a Further education College called North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College.  Hired as the keynote, I was quite in awe when i arrived at the event and saw the stunning room the gowns and the excited students, parents and teachers. The emotion of the Principal Marion Plant OBE, which was beautiful, reflecting her incredible commitment and passion to her students. After my keynote, I was asked by a number of parents and students if they could have a copy of my talk,…

Below is a list of the Blogs and Podcasts, plus other Media that I would like to share to encourage the readership of other websites and communities that have asked me to write for them. Click on the headings to open the links.   They discuss the business case for love - How we can create cultures of growth, contribution and connection Talking to StartUp Sensations - “Building Community- a focus in emotional intelligence in business” ”Servant leadership and building communities' - with Kevin Thiele and Sales Code Leadership Podcast Building Community - A focus on emotional intelligence in business…

Tonight I am speaking at Google Campus in London about the experience of building a business that I loved and then seeing it die. The event run by Google is called “StartUp Funerals” I am proud to have been asked to do this as the learning achieved when you go through this type of experience helps to propel you onwards and with greater knowledge of yourself and business. Passing on this knowledge adds purpose to the experience. The first observation I made when asked is why does Google refer to the experience as #failure. I guess it is obvious to…

Coming back from being broken.. ... This year I decided to focus on rebuilding myself after years of ignoring exhaustion, stress, loss and disappointment. Overtime, unaware of it, I was losing a lot of confidence and feelings of self worth and so I retreated. I needed to repair, rebuild myself and consider my future. I wrote my book and let go of (for a while) the dream I have of The Business Cafe and decided to stop pushing. Living for income is very different to building an asset. Building a business on the scale that I want to build The…

Be the leader of your life and business If I asked you, “want is the life you want?”, would you be able to answer this? In 2018, I asked myself this, and it was hard I know there are people who are absolutely brilliant at setting out their goals, managing their time, stepping over obstacles, focusing on the vision, always looking beautiful, handsome, eating well, sleeping, meditating, succeeding. Preaching the gospels of their incredible life, we follow them, as maybe there is a chance we can be like them They have and giving us all the illusion of being in…

Recently I was invited to an event to ‘Celebrate 21st Century Women’. This seemed such a powerful and positive statement and event to go to. I accepted the invite with great joy. My thoughts as I drove there on a rainy, windy Friday night was how far we have come as women. I reflected on my own mum and then on my daughter, the life my mum led and the life my daughter lives and will lead, are so incredibly different. I realised that I was part of this change, the channel to a new way of being. All around…

I wonder how often you go online and are left with a feeling of lack. Noticing and judging yourself against all the things that you see online that others seem to be achieving. The emotions can be one of feeling you lack knowledge, skills, relationships, joy, money, beauty? The list can go on and on depending on your vulnerability at the time you see or hear something that triggers this emotion. I have learned that this comes from a need for us all to understand our own personal desires, dreams, ambitions and definitions of success. We need to clearly know…