Hello everyone! Since the wedding six weeks ago, life has been wonderfully busy with some exciting social activities. I had an amazing time at the Pink concert, enjoyed the elegance of Royal Ascot with Proximo, and so far I’m thrilled at the Euro 2024 Football Championships. It’s been lots of fun socially, and now I’m… Continue Reading
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Year End Posts
I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of 2023 already! So much has happened for me this year, indeed for disabled people, and disability inclusion in general. For those who knew me and followed me before the Purple Goat tsunami hit the world in 2020, you’ll remember me being in a different country each… Continue Reading
Change Makers Assemble
I’ve been wanting to share a few thoughts on making change and those who drive it. The change makers. So with the disability power 100 event taking place this week, straight after Purple Tuesday, there couldn’t have been a more perfect time to publish. Firstly I want to congratulate the Purple Tuesday and Shaw Trust… Continue Reading
Life update to flow state
One way or another I’ve felt very blocked from a writing perspective. Which is always doubly frustrating thinking back a few years when I literally couldn’t stop myself from publishing. The reasons vary over time from doubling down on Purple Goat, having some non work priorities to focus on, to more recently just overthinking and… Continue Reading
Disability and Identity
I haven’t talked so much lately about the disability side of my life, and specifically any stories as a ‘disabled’ entrepreneur/founder. Partly it’s because I’ve always wanted balance between the disability side of my identity and the many other elements that makes me me. Partly it’s because I’d written and spoken about the disability perspective… Continue Reading
Purple Goat update
Another big week at Purple Goat Agency! I’ve continued my weekday livestreams, interviewing leaders in the disability world. I’ve also continued my daily Disabled Founders Journal podcast, alongside some of the livestream interviews on my channel here https://open.spotify.com/show/5or9a7baTKyL7NZDv37qET?si=sRgRDBCDTxCsjZFOUhOkTw. Three of my favourite Daily Sib interviews include: 1) Elizabeth Ransome-Croker and I discussing the founding story of… Continue Reading
Sir Bert Massie – A life without limits
Over the years I’ve totally geeked out on both disability rights and civil rights. There’s nothing better than a leader building a movement, defying the odds, and beating Goliath. A big reason for me wanting to learn about this subject, is to inform my disability activism today. “We have to understand the past to shape… Continue Reading
Sparks of Change
Peaks and Troughs. Ebb and Flow. However much I strive for consistency, it always seems to evade me. Partly because I guess ‘that’s life’. Partly because I seem to like to mix things up! I tend to regularly kick off new challenges. From finishing 2014 tired, living back home, and struggling with a deterioration in… Continue Reading