Hello , My fellow brave humanI have just launched Brave Conversations which can be found on Spotify, apple and Acast. This series is going to be fairly ad hoc rather than one out each week, but I’ll let you know when each episode launches - I am so l...
Hello , My fellow brave humanDid you know that I’ve run 60 miles since I started training 9 weeks ago? I’ve been musing on the Nike strapline this week and realise how apt it is for me just now. With the storms at the weekend, and the resulting sleet...
Hello , My fellow brave humanHow are you feeling?This has been a bit of an overwhelming start to the year if you are an avid follower of news. Actually I don’t think you need to be avid follower to be aware of what is happening.I have to say my engin...
Hello , My fellow brave humanCan I just say a huge thank you to you all for being on this journey with me over the last year. It has been so lovely to be writing and seeing that people are actually reading them! And it’s especially lovely to get resp...
Hello , My fellow brave humanWhat a hideous last few weeks.Covid (or flu, or both – who knows). At one point, I genuinely wondered if I'd ever feel normal again.But here I am, back out running. Marathon training resumed. Energy restored. And honestly...
Hello ,Now I can articulate my Theory of Brave, I’ve started having a play with different angles. Emerging from different conversations are some common underlying assumptions that often prevent us from choosing to be brave. Over the next few weeks I’...
Hello ,“You can do so much better than this…”When you hear those words, what do you feel? Ouch?I found myself saying this to someone the other day and realised how harsh it sounded. But it came from absolute love. I can see in people what they're cap...
Hello ,Last week I wrote about my Theory of Brave. And what better way to test a theory than to put yourself squarely in the firing line?Last week I signed up to do a marathon stretch of Run Across UK in aid of Down’s Syndrome Scotland in March. My s...
Hello ,A question for you. Is where you are right now, where you want to be?Have you resigned yourself to ‘this is it’?Not because you want to. Not because you have to. But because every time you dream of what could be, the voice in your head shouts...
Hello , my fellow brave humanDiscovering my mum’s cancer had returned coincided with my discovery of ‘the sketchbook project’, a programme run by the Brooklyn art library in New York. It was a global project that gave a series of titles to choose fr...
