Why I Started My Own Virtual Assistant Business
I run my own business that offers virtual assistance for virtual assistants (VAs). Let me explain. A VA is someone who provides small businesses and entrepreneurs with administrative, marketing and PA support...
Working 9 to 5… They just use your mind. And they never give you credit
The hit song 9 to 5 was written for the 1980’s film, starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The song became the ‘women in the workplace anthem’, the theme tune...
Getting In Shape For Summer
Many of us are thinking about getting in shape for summer holidays. With so many things going on at work or in your social life, it can be quite hard to think...
Have I come over all Mary Whitehouse?
In April best friends Mayan Toledano and Julia Baylis launched a line of girl’s clothing and accessories. Me and You. When I read about Me and You in the style press and...
My Yoga Path
I found yoga slightly later in life. I wasn’t one of those people to go travelling around India and become spiritually enlightened. My journey to yoga took a different, more feet-on-the-ground path,...
Solo travel is not ‘brave’
But it is a tragedy to not do something you desire because of fear. I have travelled mostly solo, usually without any connection to life back home, for ten years. Yes of...
Financial Advice for Single Women
We all look to take out the insurances that we know we need, such as car and home insurance. But as a single woman you may be neglecting to insure your biggest...
Stuff your safe places
Situation is this. I’m a woman in my mid-forties, recently divorced, smart, engaged with the world. I’m up for a few more adventures yet before I’m pushing up the daisies. But here’s...
Roll on Sunday
It started as a fantasy crush. Just like my first dreams of the tanned and tight-shorted Andrew Ridgeley. It was 2009 and I was unaware of roller derby’s existence until I watched...
Why it’s now OK to use the “F” word in the workplace
In the world of work, women have always had to ‘play the game’ to get ahead. From using their sexual wiles (or ‘leveraging their erotic capital’, as it might now be known!)...