What's your purpose? I’ve been thinking a lot about my purpose in life lately. I’ll tell you about mine in a sec, but first, why is it even important? You might have noticed this basic fact – with your friends, kids/partner if you have them, colleagues, employees – if someone knows why they are doing something, they’re more likely to do it. In my previous role as an HR consultant and trainer, I used use the example of a factory production line. If you say to an employee “put this bit of metal...

5 ways I avoid burnout Life can be so exhausting, right? Between family commitments, work commitments, general life admin, spiralling costs of everything, perimenopause, the state of the world, and general life and house admin, it’s no wonder almost 30% of women say they’re burned out. I’m going to share my top 5 tips for avoiding burnout – but first, here’s my story. I burned out hard in April 2021. I’d been expecting to leave my HR business in 2020, with Shine already being in my mind as my...

Testing times What a difficult few weeks it seems to have been, for everyone. The weather is mostly miserable, the world seems a very sad place, and not one person I’ve spoken to in recent days seems to be having it easy… It seems that a lot of us could do with a pick me up. With that in mind, I’m planning a little evening retreat for a small group of women. You’ll wear your cosiest outfit and drift away as we take part in a relaxing meditation to soothing sounds. Amid twinkling fairy lights...