Theft of a feather? A life of hard labour for you! — The year is 1615. Queen Elizabeth I of England died 12 years ago. With her, the death of England’s Golden Age. The first Stuart king (of England) sits on the throne. If you commit a crime, beware, your king has authorised the transportation of criminals to the American colonies (later…

Ending and destroying lives for petty crime — England has a shameful history of killing its own citizens for minor crime. Between 1688 and 1820, the Bloody Code represented over 200 crimes punishable by death. Men, women and children (aged 7 and above) were subject to death for as little as cutting down a tree. Sadly, crime was…

How to give yourself career flexibility with transferable skills — This article isn’t about the leadership skills and communications skills. Those articles are plentiful. Generic leadership and communication skills are suitable for most careers and this advice is so often touted it’s become predictable and boring. Be resilient. Listen. Adapt your communication style. BE RESILIENT! …

Your greatest moments deserve the perfect song — The most beautiful and the most tragic moments of our life deserve to be set to music. Songs to take us back. Songs to help us remember. And songs to reinforce the love we’ve felt. Love We are, hopefully, blessed with many types of love as we tumble through life. Parents…

Values, gender, education, and entrepreneurship — Can you pinpoint the reason you chose your career? It’s likely that your childhood experiences heavily influenced you. Parents play a key role in the career decisions we make as adolescents. Importantly, adolescents of supportive parents are more likely to be confident in their own career decisions choosing more satisfying…

How to show up the right way for others — The loneliest I’ve ever felt in my life was going through extreme distress and not getting what I needed from the people in my life. I felt like I was in a rickety boat in the middle of the ocean, waves of anger crashing against me. You should… What you…

The life of Mary Wade — 10-year-old Mary Wade is shocked awake on the stroke of midnight as a bell tolls in the prison tunnels below. The bellman calls: “All you that in the condemned hold do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die. Watch all and pray, the hour is drawing near that you…

Motherhood is not a given for all women — We still see motherhood as the default for women. This needs to change. Little girls need to know that when they grow up, motherhood is an option. …

Put your wants, needs and dreams into the equation — Ask children what they want to do when they grow up and you’ll hear them say ‘Firefighter’, ‘Doctor’, ‘Scientist’, ‘Teacher’, ‘Influencer’ etc. Of course, as children, they have a limited view about what those jobs entail. As we get older, we need to add depth to this answer. But often…