by Michele Marius | Dec 24, 2021 | Inspiration
This quote by Brené Brown is one that I encourage you to revisit. Although it is straightforward, it is also profound and its full gravity or impact is not always apparent or felt on the first read. Similar to the contrast between light and dark, which allows us to...
by Michele Marius | Dec 23, 2021 | Inspiration
As children we cannot wait to grow up. However, becoming an adult is only the start of the journey: as ideally, we ought to continue to grow and evolve. For a girl born on the Southside of Chicago, Michelle Obama beat the odds of her circumstances to become a lawyer...
by Michele Marius | Dec 22, 2021 | Inspiration
So many of us are wearing some kind of facade or mask, in order to we project the person who we would like the world to see, and to believe we are. However, in this day and age, when everyone has a personal brand and is on social media, increasingly, it ought to be...
by Michele Marius | Dec 21, 2021 | Inspiration
Parents and guardians do take note, as today’s quote is a sobering reminder of the extent to which your actions shape the people your children become. However, in widening the lens through which we consider this quote, it is also reminder to us adults of the...
by Michele Marius | Dec 20, 2021 | Inspiration
As social creatures we humans tend to care what people think, and for us women, generally, that need is even more acute. When we were young girls, a gaggle of us would go together to buy sweets, or to confront another girl. There was comfort in numbers. Now as an...
by Michele Marius | Dec 19, 2021 | Inspiration
We all know the woman who Iman, model and Founder of Iman Cosmetics, speaks about. She might be the auntie, or the free-spirited girlfriend who does not follow convention and may get whispered about when she is not around. Whilst most of us endeavour to follow the...