Yesterday, I went for my 6th visit to an Acupuncture chap, a lovely man. He makes me giggle as he sees life in such beautiful, simple terms. I am there due to pain in my wrists and back (pandemic desk life). I am also there to calm myself (pandemic work obsession).
Recently, I was interviewed for the Brave New Girl podcast, hosted by artist and author of 'Brave New Girl- How to Be Fearless', Lou Hamilton. Her podcast is a platform for women's voices who are positively impacting the world and Lou invites real life Brave New Girls who are entrepreneurs, creatives, authors, campaigners & thought leaders to share how they found courage, through all of their challenges. We discussed my life and business journey after losing Ecademy in 2012, and the personal and professional tragedies which led to an hallucinogenic panic attack. Happily, we also talked about my current…
So, which person/mentor do you truly trust? (A) This is me, a Penny Power - the winner, the shiny person who has a Number one selling book (fake) the OBE - (true) the founder of a global business (true), the Award Winner, the Entrepreneur who appears to always win (fake) OR (B) This is me, Penny, the emotionally open person who has struggled through business, the person who has had to learn a lot through failure before understanding business, the hard worker who can’t stop trying, the person who has been broken and questioned herself and her abilities. The person…
Today is International Womens Day 2021 and there has never been a year in which it has been more important that we should consider women and how we support them globally. This picture is Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. A brilliant communicator and compassionate thinker. Yesterday, she shared these statistics on Sky News and I felt it was very apt to share them. Today I am delivering 3 speeches to companies about "Confidence, Courage, Resilience" and how I, as a women, had to grow these skills to build my career in business. I…
All my life, as a little girl through to the 57-year-old me, I have been so aware of, and sensitive to, the thought of anyone feeling lonely. I always felt sad for the child in the playground with no friends. We all need to matter to someone and belong to something. It is what motivated the idea of Ecademy back in 1998. Building the first online way for businesspeople to connect as friends, 4 years before LinkedIn, we were driven to connect, care for and create an environment of love. Now, in a world that has never been more connected,…
Thank you to The Business Owners magazine for allowing me to share why I believe "Business Is Personal" in their monthly magazine for Business Owners. https://www.imags.uk/the-business-owner-magazine-feb2021 Pages 18-19 Here are the opening paragraphs... "Do you remember that moment on the film ‘Taken’, when Liam Neeson is searching for his abducted daughter who is being trafficked? He is in a lift and is pointing a gun at the perpetrator? The evil man says, “it was never personal, it is just business” and Liam replies “It is personal to me”. Well I identify with that within the business world. Several years ago,…