Well, I’m back! The plane landed late on Sunday, although I don’t feel like I’m back on the ground yet. So much has happened to me, I’ve experienced so much that its very hard to describe the indescribable. A large part of me simply doesn’t feel the same as the person that [...]
Thank you 4Networking for giving me the opportunity to talk to the lovely Cambridge group this morning! I know I stepped in at the last moment, so I didn’t get much notice, but actually this was perfect, as it didn’t give me a chance to ‘think’ about why I shouldn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t do [...]
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Tomorrow evening I have been invited to talk in the “Hero” slot before the main speaker at an event in Cambridge. I have mixed feelings about doing this. On one hand I know I have to do this - its part of my mission to raise money and awareness for bowel cancer by [...]
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I’m inspired to write a quick blog as I’ve noticed that the more I share my cancer story with others, the more I’ve noticed how cancer affects everyone, in some way or another. As the date of my charity trek draws closer, I’ve started to speak at my networking meetings, as well as be [...]
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A little blog to say a BIG thank you to my very good friend and Virtual Assistant colleage in Birmingham, Berni Jones (from Bernadette Jones Secretary Services) for supporting my work to raise awarness and raise cash for bowel cancer. She’s put a special page on her website devoted to me & my Machu [...]
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It’s only 2 months until I leave for Peru! On Saturday I travelled to London to meet my fellow Trekkers at a really interesting and informative Beating Bowel Cancer Trek Peru briefing session, not to mention inspirational and motivating! The dream became a reality when we were told about some of the challenges we [...]
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I so love what I do! Just a quick post to share with you a message I received this morning which has made the day for AmazingVA (that’s Amie [my brilliant daughter] and me). We were helping a lovely client with an event in Cambridge last night (high profile event with high profile [...]
Just received a lovely email from a client who is so happy that we were able to deliver her project to her ahead of schedule - exceeding her expectations! She was particularly delighted as she realised that the rest of the working world, it seemed last week (if we believed the news stories), was struggling with [...]
Thank you Star Radio’s Mark Peters for interviewing me this morning on his Breakfast Show, and for giving me the chance to raise awareness (& hopefully some cash too!) for bowel cancer. You can read more about my cancer story in a previous posting, but this morning Mark asked me about why I was trekking [...]
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