Tell me about your vision.
My vision is to stop women working like men and then broaden it out to everybody having
their own aligned way of working.
Many women or women basically entered the workplace which was designed and created for
and by men and we proved ourselves and have proven that we can work just as well as men
and now I believe that many successful women are on the verge of burnout and not only do
they need to realign themselves for themselves but also acknowledge the need of the next
generation so there's not such a huge gap between successful businesses now and what
the next generation want and how they want to work.
I love that.
In fact, my hope, my grand hope now is to see somebody like Malcolm Gladwell or some
fantastic researcher write a book on the effects that burnout has had on men over the last
200, 300 years.
That would be fascinating to see and learn about and what amazing wisdom to recognize
that women are now heading down that path by adopting a lot of the same pace or same
principles or desires.
I need to go meditate on that for a while.
That's huge.
How did you get started on this?
I have had a career in fashion and business.
I've worked at senior leadership levels.
I then have had my own business for well over a decade with working with my sister and she's
actually located in another part of the UK.
And then I think basically it was a catalyst from the pandemic which I'm sure many people
have had that I had stopped learning and I basically reopened my brain to knowledge because
I felt like I was burning out and needed to re-educate myself or bring more knowledge
in and all of the books and the learnings that I was coming across were very male-orientated
and I just found that there was this need for us to sort of just re-align ourselves
and create curiosity as to why we are doing what we're doing.
I am the person that I'm talking to.
I went back to work when both my children were three months old and I fought for my
career.
I wanted to, I don't know who I was proving to something to, but when I wanted to be a
career person and a mother and try and create it, balance it all and have it all and I now
realise that you can have it all but not necessarily at the same time but businesses can support
that way of thinking hugely.
How do leaders lean into funding their vision?
What resources can help them do so?
Okay.
I believe that from a female perspective the financial element is kind of a, there's a
diversity within female leadership and funding their vision.
I think that women are definitely scared of going to the next level and making that quantum
leap.
They need to have this old adage and research of that women need to tick all the boxes or
feel that they need to tick all the boxes rather than men will kind of go, oh, I can
do that one thing so therefore I am going to do it.
We are pretty dumb about what we think we can do.
It's confidence.
So I personally believe that from a female…
And arrogance.
We use some of that too.
Yeah, fair one.
However, I'm all about creating rhythm so from a female perspective I think that we
definitely need to have more confidence in our abilities of our vision to be able to
make the… from our imagination to it being tangible but also there's a huge area of
education on finance from… like I know from a personal point of view and also from other
leaders that I've spoken to that money and finance is… it's a power game that we're
quite scared of and we've not actually entered yet and we need to… that educational piece
needs to absolutely happen.
And I think once you draw out the curtain actually it's not that scary.
So from my point of view I think that female leaders definitely need to get more confident
about what they want to do in creating their vision.
Don't be afraid of failing because actually you learn from your failings and educate yourself
on finance.
It's not actually that scary.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
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I hope you're having an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro
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