The Informal Bio

What I want you to know about me is…

I passed my 11+ at 9 years old and went to a grammar school before my 10th birthday. (Only Brits will know what I’m talking about here.)

I took the New York Bar as a mental challenge and passed first time. Boom!

I married the love of my life at 45 and now split my time between London and New Jersey, which shows you really never know where life will lead you.

I was asked to speak at the IFASIC conference in Dubrovnik on Motivating Employees Post-Pandemic. I opened with a Stalin quote!

My long-term goal is to open a school for young parents who think they have few options and no route to a successful happy life.

I have worked with some of the wealthiest, most intelligent and theatrical lawyers around the globe. (Spoiler alert — they all have the same insecurities and fears.)

Taking this leap is the most exciting, terrifying and rewarding thing I have ever done. To make a difference to lives in a time full of anxiety, fear and loneliness.

What I don’t want you to know about me is…

I am an introvert. I love people but I get very excited when plans get cancelled.

I have had to deal with negative narrow-minded opinions for most of my life. Despite it being almost 30 years later, some still really piss me off!

I hate my photograph being taken! I understand most women have to do some body-image work as we get older, but photos of me tend to set me back a step or two. Doesn’t seem worth it.

I have had my heart broken, felt lost and been treated badly (by those I expected it from and by those I didn’t).

I have felt powerless, afraid, scared and hurt. Sometimes all at once.

I get botox.

I’ve had a nose job. (If you don’t like it, change it.)

I’ve spent my whole life looking for somewhere I could be seen, heard and loved. I wanted to belong.

I have a weird addiction to TV crime dramas and still find rewatching episodes of Murder She Wrote oddly comforting.

Somehow this list was much easier to write than things I do want you to know.