meeting innovative, energetic and
inspirational people. After eight
porate world to start two companies. I now
help women build profitable businesses.
I also love seeing my clients build home-
based businesses to be genuine financial
alternatives to paid employment.
Northern Scotland. The cook was an old
school friend and I was a uni student with
no money and a summer holiday to fill.
Karen promised good pay, short hours and
a hearty social life. I leapt at it.
assistant actually did: skin rabbits, bone
deer heads. Not such a good fit for some-
one who faints at the sight of blood.
something we didn't even know we needed.
I think of Henry Ford and his democratisa-
tion of the motor vehicle; Bill Gates and his
vision of a computer on every desk and in
every home; and Steve Jobs and the iPod.
ago people thought this lady who sold
beauty products that hadn't been tested on
animals and espoused Fair Trade was mad,
and look what she achieved.
coons but I'd get there faster by employing
school for a year and take them around the
world. We'd spend time in India helping
out at the Bala Gurukulam orphanage and
would champion fundraising for it when we
returned home.
could never get my head around how he
came to be in the cosmetics business and
when he talked about how his parents
couldn't either I laughed so hard there
were tears. I remember leaving the event
feeling so energized a real emotional high
that carried me through a tricky day.