I was recently interviewed for The Escape The Rat Race podcast where I talked about my career, my book and why content is the key to so much of what we want from our lives. Actually, a lot of that podcast ended up being about the period in my life after I sold my business.…
I’m not a mad fan of poems BUT this one landed on my Facebook feed a few days ago, and I thought it was perfect for welcoming a new year. Whether you’re a she or a he, it’s all about dumping all the baggage and nonsense that holds us back from our grand plans! …
When I worked for national newspapers, I used to go out and about up and down the UK, interviewing all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. Over the years, I’ve sat and I’ve listened to people from the most diverse of backgrounds, who live both the most chaotic and privileged of lives, and…
When it comes to online success or online visibility for a personal brand or business, most people understand what the big picture looks like. They look at what their competitors, or those they admire the most and want what they’ve got. Those building personal brands say things to me like: ‘I want webinars, and online…
Creating topical content for your website and social media feeds is really important, because it helps you position yourself as being on the ball and on top of what is going on, and also, because it helps you attract journalists who are always looking for experts to comment on topical matters. PLUS, if you want…
I loved a recent article by the Daily Mail’s columnist Jan Moir about the X factor. She essentially wrote how it’s cliched, tired and has had it’s day. BUT there was one line that really jumped out to me, and that was ‘Especially when smart kids today don’t actually need a creaky-kneed croaker to discover…
Oh, how I do feel a twinge of envy for the ‘happy’ women currently enjoying their ‘happy’ lives at the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. How lovely it must be to be motivated not by ‘vertical ambition’ but an intrinsic, circular ambition to be happy, in which one no doubt walks in circles chanting ‘Am…
I loved a presentation by Trendwatching last week about ‘betterment’ and how betterment in our lives is the thing we are all doing now. Trendwatching monitor global consumer trends (and sell this information to big brands) and they are seeing that in general, people are moving away from consumerism and pursuit of wealth to the…
Yesterday, Business Secretary Sajid Javid announced an investigation into non-compete clauses in employment contracts which prevent employees leaving their job from starting their own rival firms. This is part of Javid’s long term goal to support entrepreneurship in the UK.
When you’re raising your profile or using the internet to build your business online and give you increased flexibility in your life, it’s only natural to want quick results. And as humans, I think we have a natural tendency to want immediate results!! And so if you write a blog post or get a piece…
Join me to hear about turning your passions into pounds I’d love to invite you to join me, PR expert Jessica Huie MBE and prolific mummy blogger Vicki Psarias, one of the UK’s most successful bloggers, on Friday 18th of April at the British Library for a talk on how to turn your passion into pounds, leverage the…
I’m getting quite into these philosophical posts, even though I’ve never really ‘got’ philosophy and some philosophical questions just end up with my brain disappearing down some sort of strange rabbit hole where I realise there is no answer which then totally does my head in even further. But this is something I’ve been thinking about…
A quick screenshot from last night, when I was invited to sit on a panel talking about female entrepreneurship for European Commission Startup Europe Week 2016. One of the great messages came from my fellow panelist Yasmina Siadatan, who won the Apprentice but also happens to be (randomly) one of my brother’s friends sisters! She…
I always like to imagine what exactly the HMRC online bank account looks like at this time of the year as self-employed people across the country finally cough up what we owe. Is someone sitting there hitting refresh watching the numbers get higher and higher and nearly fainting with delight, or do they have a…
There are many industries that have faced dramatic digital disruption and yet still, the changes they are enduring remain only in their infancy. While we are all, for instance, stunned at the growth of Uber and the disruption to the black cab and minicab industry, with driverless cars on the horizon, the disruption has not…
Get yourself to Bristol for 1.45pm on October 22nd, as I’ll be discussing Turning a Blog into a Business at the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs. I’m one of four lovely ladies with knowledge (and an opinion!) on this topic sitting on the panel on the Keynote Stage at 1.45. Amongst other things we will be…