When I was 14, I decided to become a confident person. As a younger child, I was often described as quiet. Studious, perhaps. Shy. As I grew older, I didn’t like that about myself. I saw other people being loud, confident and assertive. I wanted to be more like them. I wanted to speak up […]
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Before I ever went freelance, before I had any kind of plan for working for myself, I knew one thing: I was interested in writing and communication – but I didn’t know what to do with that. So, I started doing something quite simple. I read the job pages in newspapers. Not because I was
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If you’d met me at school, you wouldn’t have thought of me as ‘sporty’. I took part in things. I turned up, joined in, did what was required – and even enjoyed it well enough sometimes. But I wasn’t particularly good at it. I wasn’t quick, and I wasn’t competitive. And that was fine. Sport
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