In a nutshell, the difference between following your passion as a hobby… and following your passion as a business… comes down to financial transactions. In the six years I’ve been self-employed, I’ve logged 700 incoming financial transactions. That’s 700 times when a person has decided to pay me for a service I offer. These single [...]
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What is your approach to turbulent times? What do you do when things go pear-shaped? Many of us have been feeling an abundance of challenges lately with the recession and with environmental and societal crises. There’s a lot that doesn’t feel safe about our world and it can be tempting to withdraw and struggle along [...] We often stay where we are because we fear firsts. I’m leading my first teleclass series at the moment. My experience before the first class was decidedly uncomfortable; I was full of nerves and a torrent of concerns; Would the conference line work? Had I given everyone the right number? What if my phone battery [...] Everyone has a weak spot. Mine? Things breaking. When a piece of equipment fails or some software doesn’t work properly, a button of mine gets pressed. Some old pattern of not feeling safe in the world gets triggered and I utterly freak out. I have tears, I punch pillows, I tell the world how much [...] I’ve just watched the most amazing BBC documentary, A Farm For The Future. In the documentary, Rebecca Hosking takes a thorough and honest look at our food chain and how the end of cheap, abundant oil will affect what we eat. Her explorations take her to peak oil experts, a Soil Association conference, and permaculture-designed [...] This is Global Entrepreneurship Week and to mark its start, I volunteered at the first day of Chain Reaction, an event which saw 700 people gather to explore how entrepreneurship can be a source of social good. There was a variety of inspirational speakers including Tim Smit of the Eden Project, Sophi Tranchell of Divine [...] I’m delighted to be showcasing one of my favourite ever ventures: Morsbags. The story is – an inspirational young woman named Claire Morsman realised the devastating impact of plastic bags on marine animals. Rather than starting a campaign to stop people using plastic bags, she decided to create an alternative and came up with ‘social [...] |
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