I am a Gen X gal and spent my thirties working my way up the corporate ladder. It was a slow and painful process but I never questioned what I wanted. I'd started my career working in McDonalds as a Saturday job, then moved onto retail- working long hours on the shop floor in Habitat. When I finished university I thought about TV (for all the wrong reasons - it sounded glamorous and exciting) but in the end I applied for a job in a global market research agency based in Chisw

Last Thursday evening I chaired an event at The Cuckooz Nest working space. It's a pretty cool concept whereby you get to rent office space and get access to a nursery at the same time. It's perfect if you're in the early phase as the nursery goes up to age two and also gets you out of that isolation that can come with being stuck at home and still having to work from your kitchen table. Annie Ridout (The Early Hour), Kelly Ford (Book of Mum), Candice Braithwaite (https://www

(Image of Elizabeth Moss in 'Mad Men') First off let me tell you that I'm a big fan of Emma Gannon. I first met her when I was in my old research job and she appeared on a panel we were running all about 'The Imposter Syndrome'. I was bowled over by her confidence. She made me feel a bit insecure but she was positive, had great advice on how to battle inner demons and I came away thinking WOW that woman is pretty cool. Fast forward a bit and I've bumped into her a couple more

So Thursday 7th June I'll be chairing an event with a bunch of fabulous women including Annie Ridout, Lisa Williams, Candice Braithwaite and Kelly Ford and we'll be talking about all the challenges of the freelance life. It'll be at this cool, new working space called The Cuckooz Nest and kicks off at 7pm (think tickets have sold out so sorry this is a bit late in the day to flag it up). I have mixed feelings about it (not the event but freelancing generally). The thing is I

(Image of me starting out in market research back in the day) So for ages I've stopped and started when it came to having my own website. I spend a lot of time working on Selfish Mother and The Hotbed Collective and I kind of questioned whether I needed a site myself. Then people kept asking me WHAT DO YOU DO? And I quickly realised that it wasn't clear what I did (not even to myself really) so I've put a pretty damn BASIC thang together just so I can give some sort of cohere