I went feral in my sixties.
THE BACK STORY
Five careers. Built and lost businesses. Trashed and regained my health. Married, divorced, been heartbroken and raged at life. Now, in my seventies, I’m happy, healthy, working at my highest level and loving everything life throws at me.
Happy, healthy, and just getting started
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Nothing I didn't learn the hard way
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Five careers, one thread
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Happy, healthy, and just getting started ✦ Nothing I didn't learn the hard way ✦ Five careers, one thread ✦
I don't do therapy-speak, toxic positivity or victimhood.
I've spent thirty years studying how the mind works, alongside a working life spent running real things with real money on the line. The two were never separate. They're the whole point.
Five careers. One thread.
Qualified in Glasgow, the only woman in the year. Learned early what it costs to be the exception, and what it’s worth.
1973
Civil engineer
Taught Maths and Physics when the kids were small. A new skill and a future-proof for the uncertainty of life
Then
Head of Physics
Retrained into financial services, scared myself shitless with how awful the industry was, so set up and built a wealth management firm to £500m under advice over two decades. After exiting, I spent a couple of years running a global headhunting group through the 2008 crash. Interesting times.
21 yrs
Founder & CEO
A portfolio across fintech, healthcare and asset management. Counsel to chief executives and boards. Good in bad situations: turnarounds, business crises, CEO meltdown.
Now
Board adviser & NED
A life long writer, from The Kama Sutra of Work to, now, FERAL - teaching women what they made sure you never knew is my legacy.
Now
Author and Speaker
Given up for adoption as a toddler. A history of loss, mistakes, getting back up again and sheer bloody luck.
WHY TRUST IT
My own story isn't separate from the work. It's the raw material. There is nothing here that I didn't learn from scratch the hard way. My mission is to save you time and pain.
