“You only discover what you can do when you don’t have a plan B.”– Dr Victoria Stakelum Would you have the courage to walk away from a well-paid corporate job without a backup plan having just had a baby and moved house? Especially when you’re the breadwinner? That’s exactly what Dr Victoria Stakelum decided to…
Advertising for periods likes to paint a picture that your ‘time of the month’ is no bother at all. Except anyone who has lived with the reality of heavy periods knows what a nonsense this is. Excruciating pain and leaks from gushing/flooding events that no sanitary product can prevent make you either fearful of leaving…
Have you ever dreamed of going on Dragons’ Den? And have you ever wondered what the process is really like? One woman who knows what it takes to do a deal in the Den is Laura Harnett, who dug out a pair of Bridget Jones-sized brave pants to pitch a business that the eco-conscious among…
What would you do if you faced a career-interrupting health challenge? For Georgina Colman, a life-changing MS diagnosis has been the catalyst for a business that is making a difference to the lives of disabled people around the UK. Purpl, named after the colour representing the disabled community, was born from a simple yet glaring…
Be prepared in an unprepared world. This is the advice from Avneet Sachdeva, who believes women shouldn’t rely on a single source of income and has been able to rebuild her career after moving from India to the UK via Germany and experiencing redundancy not once but twice. Because even when ‘being let go’ felt…
As a World Champion rower and three-time Olympian, decorated with a silver medal at the Athens Games in 2004, Cath Bishop spent nearly 10 years embedded in a high-performance winning culture. Thinking she’d leave that world behind when she moved into diplomacy, Cath discovered that whether you’re in the classroom or the boardroom, the world…