How do you feel when someone says to you, 'What's your story?' 😬 Do you try to rack your brain for the best parts to show your success in life? 💪💪💪 Or do you reach for the humour? 🤪 Or do you just start from the beginning? I’m currently refining (articulating/splurging/rewriting/cringing/rewriting) my story for an upcoming speaking engagement [#watchthisspace SUPER excited about this one 🤩] I decided to take more risks… And now it’s so tempting to just OMIT here and the

When I worked on the trading floor, I KNEW certain things were 'unhealthy…’ 🥴 Redbull for breakfast 😶 3-4 hours sleep a night. On a quiet week… 🍟The food I ate regularly. If I could get to actually eating… What wasn’t so obvious were the many layers of mental stress, that you simply didn’t have time to process. In such an environment of stimulation and pressure, your brain does adapt. Oh it does! No sooner is one loss down than another is being fought against. But the mind

Is that a fact, or a belief? 💭🧠 The risks we choose to take are, amongst other things, about our beliefs (conscious and subconscious). Beliefs like: ‘Property always goes up.’ 📈 ‘The pension system will be there for me.’ 👵🏼 Or our favourite right now: ‘there are few repercussions to lockdowns and endless money printing.’ 🙄😬 And beliefs like 'women are better traders than men.' In this case, it's backed by research (although I'm sure I could have said it 😉) according t