I was lying in bed in my colonial hotel room in Cuenca, Ecuador in early September last year watching an American young adult drama called Grownish (a spin off from Blackish, an excellent comedy which touches upon genuine issues in the afro American experience but with...

A couple of Friday's ago one of my work colleagues played an evil (yet brilliant) trick on me. This was revenge for me calling him last year (from a bus stop in Catford) pretending to be a journalist from the Stylist (he also proofed this article and insisted I added t...

Do something that scares you

In the last two weeks I’ve been lucky enough to take part in two speaking engagements (thanks to The BNC Event Show and International Confex for the invites) one was a panel talking about my career trajectory to Global Head of Events and the...

New me who dis?

The New Year is often seen as a chance for new beginnings, a fresh lease of life if you like. The typical pattern is we all decide what we want to leave in the previous year: negativity, unsatisfactory jobs, bad friendships, drinking less (dry January),...