What keeps you going when everything in you wants to stop?

In this week’s Little Rant, I explore the quiet power of hope not the fluffy kind, but the raw, biological, life-saving kind that makes us hold on for one more day.

Inspired by a decades-old psychological study that revealed how belief can change endurance itself, this episode looks at why hope still matters, even when logic says it shouldn’t.

Because when people stop believing things can get better, they stop trying.
And when they stop trying, they sink.

This one’s not about being positive.
It’s about remembering that hope is the proof we still care and sometimes, that’s what keeps us alive.

This week’s rant tackles a word I wish didn’texist in conversations about teenage girls: “slutty.”
It’s not a word I use, but it’s a word a mother used about her own daughter the other weekend, and it opened up a much bigger conversation about shame, conditioning, and the expectations we put on girls before they even understandwhat those labels mean.

In this episode, I talk about:

• the language we still use to police girls’bodies
• how girls absorb shame long before they enter the workplace
• why boys need as much (if not more) guidance as girls
• and how these attitudes shape the adults our kids become

This isn’t a parenting lecture. It’s a reflection on the world we’re creating and the behaviour we still normalise.

Ifwe want confident girls and respectful boys, we need to break this cycle.

Some conversations never happen, not because we don’t care, but because we think there’ll be time.

In this week’s Little Rant, I reflect on the quiet ache of questions left unasked after my dad’s passing 22 years ago, and how those reflections inspired Unplugged Moments: Grandparents Edition.

It’s a gentle reminder that the people we love won’t be here forever but their stories can be.
Ask the questions now.
Listen properly.
Collect the memories before they fade.

If you’d like to start those conversations in your own family, you can find Unplugged Moments: Grandparents Edition here:
👉 Available on Amazon UK

Because one day, you’ll wish you had asked more.

We live in a world where everyone’s talking but hardly anyone’s really listening.
We nod, we multitask, we half-hear the people we love while our brains sprint somewhere else.
And the result? A culture of noise, disconnection, and loneliness disguised as communication.

In this week’s Little Rant, I unpack how we got here, how social media trained us to treat conversations like comment sections, how constant distraction has rewired our ability to pay attention, and why listening, truly listening, has quietly become one of the last real acts of love.

This episode isn’t about being perfect.
It’s about being present.
Because when we stop trying to fix, interrupt, or perform empathy, and actually listen, something shifts in us, and in the person speaking.

So grab a coffee, take a breath, and tune in.
Because if we all listened a little more, maybe we’d finally start hearing each other again.

That awkward moment when the hiring manager could be… you, fifteen years ago.

What do you do when you’re sitting in an interview and realise the hiring manager could basically be you… fifteen years ago?

In this episode of My Little Rants, I talk about that awkward power shift , when you’ve got more experience than the person holding the clipboard — and how to handle it with humour, grace, and just enough inner sarcasm to survive it.

Because sometimes being the most experienced person in the room isn’t the advantage you think it is.

Last week, Amazon announced its biggest round of corporate layoffs yet - 14,000 people gone overnight in the name of “efficiency.”
Not because the company is struggling, but because AI is cheaper, shareholders are impatient, and somewhere along the line, we stopped treating humans as anything more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

This rant isn’t just about Amazon.
It’s about what happens when billion-dollar corporations start calling greed “innovation.”
When the richest men in the world claim progress while creating poverty.
And when society stops asking the question: how many billions does one man really need before decency becomes unaffordable?

Why are we still confusing hours with output?

In this episode, I talk about how part-time workers , especially parents , are still being undervalued in a world that claims to care about flexibility.
Inspired by a post about a single mum who could only do school hours yet became her firm’s top performer, I explore why so many companies still equate availability with ability, and how that mindset is costing them their best talent.

Because it’s 2025 and flexibility isn’t a perk anymore.
It’s the future.

This week’s rant is inspired by Dr Max Goodwin from New Amsterdam , the kind of leader who walks into chaos and asks just four words: “How can I help?”

It’s such a simple question, yet somewhere along the way, we forgot how powerful it is. We got busy managing, fixing, performing. We stopped listening.

In this episode, I explore what would happen if we brought those four words back , not just in leadership, but in life. What if we all started there? With curiosity, kindness, and the genuine intention to make things a little better for someone else.

Because maybe the world doesn’t need more managers or metrics.
Maybe it just needs more people asking, “How can I help?”

We all know the drill. The ping. The mute fails. The wrong screen shared. An hour later, nothing decided and everyone drained.

In this rant, I break down the theatre of pointless meetings, why we keep pretending they matter, and what they’re really costing us. Spoiler: it’s not just time, it’s energy, trust, and millions in lost productivity.

If you’ve ever asked yourself why you sat through a meeting that could have been wrapped up in four bullet points, this one’s for you.

We’ve built workplaces where the fastest, toughest, most “always on” people are rewarded and the ones who show vulnerability are told to toughen up. But here’s the paradox: the very qualities that make us human, empathy, honesty, imperfection, are the ones that actually build trust, creativity, and resilience.

In this rant, I dig into how we ended up treating humanity as a flaw in the workplace, what it’s costing us, and why reclaiming our right to be human might be the most radical act of leadership left.

Why do companies keep using agencies they know are rubbish?

In this episode of My Little Rants, I compare bad recruitment to buying sushi from a petrol station, every instinct tells you it’s risky, but you go for it anyway. I get into why businesses settle for sub-standard recruiters, the hidden cost of cheap hires, and what real partnership in recruitment should actually look like.

Short, raw, and maybe uncomfortable if you’ve ever justified a ‘cheap’ agency but it might just change how you think about hiring."

When Trump came to the UK on a state visit last week, the criticism was fierce. The protests, the outrage, the headlines , all of it loud, all of it valid. But sometimes leadership isn’t about what you want to do, it’s about what you have to do.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I talk about the uncomfortable side of diplomacy, why the King probably would’ve rather done anything else that day, and why sometimes sucking it up for the bigger picture is the price of progress.

Five years this week since my mum, my world, my best friend died. I marked it with another tattoo that she probably would have hated, but for me, it symbolised who she was: a warrior. It also made me think about grief, and how workplaces still don’t get it.

In the UK, we’re given a week off. One week. As if grief runs to a timetable. But grief doesn’t end with the funeral, it lingers, crashes in waves, and shows up years later when you least expect it.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I talk about what the workplace gets wrong about grief, why it matters, and what needs to change if we really want to treat people like humans at work.

What happens to a generation that never gets privacy?

In this episode of My Little Rants, I share a personal story about my daughter and the bigger question it raised about the world our kids are growing up in. A world where every moment, even the most painful, can be filmed, shared, and weaponised.

Short, raw, and urgent , this one is about the cruelty of a childhood lived on camera.

Once upon a time, job hunting meant fax machines, red biro circles in the newspaper, and sweating through a polyester suit. Fast forward, and now you can be ghosted by an AI chatbot before your morning coffee.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I look back at the glorious (and occasionally soul-crushing) evolution of job hunting, from the ‘80s to today. After 14 years as a headhunter, I’ve seen it all… and I’m asking: has it really got any better, or have we just swapped old pains for new ones?

We used to sit in silence. We used to be bored. Now? We reach for the phone before we even notice we’re doing it.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I get real about how notifications rewired our brains, stole our stillness, and made us strangers to ourselves. If you’ve ever caught yourself checking your phone without knowing why .. this one’s going to hit home.

What kind of world are our daughters really being raised in? One where we celebrate sisterhood on the surface, but still whisper the old lessons underneath: don’t be too loud, don’t be too ambitious, don’t take up too much space.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I explore the hidden rivalry women are taught from girlhood, the cost of carrying it into leadership, and why breaking this cycle matters for every girl growing up now

What happens when near-perfect isn’t good enough? At 16, I came home with 9 A’s and 1 B — and instead of ‘well done,’ I got the question: “What happened to the B?”

That moment lit a fire of perfectionism that followed me into adulthood, business, and even motherhood. In this short episode, I talk about how that pressure became an invisible handbrake, how it shaped the way I raised my daughter, and how building Unplugged Moments finally forced me to embrace the mess.

If you’ve ever felt paralysed by your own standards or caught yourself preaching to your kids what you don’t practice this one’s for you.

Sometimes it’s not a rant, it’s the stuff that keeps me awake at night , wondering what kind of world my daughter will step into. This week, I wrote a letter to my 14-year-old. It’s about the future she’ll face - tech, climate, work, balance, and being human and the hopes and fears every parent carries deep down.

Do you ever feel like your value is judged by your job title, salary, or status updates? I know I have in the past - many times.

In this episode of My Little Rants, I share a few minutes of honest reflection on why self-worth isn’t the same as net worth and why it’s time we rethink how we measure our value.

Short, raw, and straight to the point. I’d love to know if this resonates with you."