Gregory says, ‘Atlas Accessories got started because at 55 I decided I wanted to do something for myself’. It brings together his love of jewellery design, interest in meaning and symbolism and enjoyment of storytelling. In fact as soon as he’d...

Robert says, ‘I love getting to impact people’s lives and being able to share nuggets of gold and clues I’ve learned from travelling around the world and being able to train people’. He’s been lucky enough to travel around the world and taught ...

Jennifer is a financial wellness expert who started out helping people with their retirement plans. What she realised was that people struggled with it because, ‘they didn’t have the money management today to begin to focus on bigger things lik...

Klaudia is a mindset and success coach for women. She says, ‘You will find plenty of people who will talk about mindset recently, and say you need to be constantly happy to attract positive things and you know what that’s ok but that comes late...

Denise started making granola and muesli for her family during the pandemic in 2020. She explains, ‘It started out of pure necessity just for my own consumption and my families’ consumption – we love to eat granola and muesli’. After getting th...

David works in financial services, but he says, ‘outside of my 9 to 5 I spend as much time outdoors on the water doing whatever that I possibly can’. He is also the County Training Manager at South London Scouts and I wanted to talk to him abou...

When Wishes Change is about how Tricia and her family navigated the miracle birth of her daughter Annabelle and her death 6 days later. It’s about grief and about how life can change but it is also about hope. After falling pregnant Tricia and ...

Maria is a relationship coach who coaches codependents, ‘women and men that are in recovery from codependency to attract and manifest that relationship’. And by that relationship she means helping them to find, ‘a healthy loving relationship’. ...

What is ‘My Black Dog’? Niki says, ‘it is a peer-to-peer support service for people who are struggling with their mental health’. With two big differences, ‘all our volunteers have a lived experience which means they’ve been through it before -...

Petter Erik and Maria set up AweSM to help ‘freedom-seeking coaches, consultants and experts reach millions of people, and grow their business with the Nordic No-Nonsense Approach’. Maria says for them the pandemic was a blessing ‘because what ...

Kirsten set up the personal and business advisory service The Next Half in March 2021 after she saw a need that she knew she had the expertise to fill. ‘This one person had a great business model, but she didn’t have the confidence to present i...

Pauline is an editor and historian, part-time tour guide and single mother of three young children who is based in Reims France. I wanted to talk to her about what the past 18 months have been like. France has had much stricter restrictions tha...

Sam is a textile artist and designer who has been working in the creative industry for 25 years. Three years ago, she decided to start ‘Child Of Project’. Sam says, ‘It was born from grief, from the death of my father, but it’s kind of turned i...

Tom is Head Coach and founder of Be Fearsome an outdoor fitness company based in central London with an online arm developed over the last 18 months helping those who live further afield. BFO, as it is known by those that go regularly, offers a...

In July 2019 Bethan walked out of her job wanting a new challenge. Fast forward one month later and she is on holiday sat in her Mum’s favourite bar Erics in Marbella surrounded by beautiful displays of bottles and colour plus lots of macarons....

Maria decided to change her life in 2019. She says, ‘I felt that I really need profound change in my life. I felt like my soul was screaming for change’. Initially, she had no idea what she wanted to do so turned to astrology because she wanted...

Javier is a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade and a personal trainer specialising in outdoor training. I wanted to talk to him about training to be a firefighter during the pandemic. When he first applied to be a firefighter, it was 2019 a...

Charlotte @funkymakers is a multi-crafter and has crafted since she was knee-high. She comes from an Irish family of crafters who taught her to knit and crochet. Charlotte recently coordinated the family to create a heritage blanket as a weddin...

Huia lives with her partner Sander, their two children and a dog in Marlborough where 75% of New Zealand’s wine is produced. She’s busy working as a naturopath specialising in herbal medicine as well as doing several forms of massage and being ...

Tanvir lives in Corsham, Wiltshire and is an author, researcher and disability activist. She currently works as an associate research fellow for D4D (http://d4d.org.uk/), which is a project exploring disability ...

Thessa lives in Amsterdam and works as a digital marketeer. She’s also a keen traveller and surfer. I wanted to talk to her about how the pandemic had impacted her life in Amsterdam. From photos on social media it looked like life was good full...

Flora owns Flora’s Food and Kitchen which is a catering business based in Exmoor on the border of Devon and Somerset. She caters for ‘lots of lovely celebrations’ weddings, dinners and parties as well as doing work for holiday let companies goi...

Amy Stevens is a Canadian but has lived and worked abroad as a hotelier for many years. For the last 7 years, she has been based in UAE and more recently moved from Abu Dhabi to Dubai. Ironically, she chose to live in the UAE as it is an easy s...

Esther is a frontline worker who works as an occupational therapist so has a unique perspective of the pandemic and how working on the frontline impacted her and her family. She also has a special interest in mental health and is a wellbeing pr...

Jana Bakunina is an inspirational go-getter, writer and intrepid traveller who doesn’t allow much (except total lockdown) to get in the way of her love of travel. When she is not travelling she is always busy cooking up delicious food, feeding ...