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Every year on 4 August, International Owl Awareness Day celebrates one of nature's wisest creatures. Owls have long symbolised wisdom, intuition and the ability to see clearly in the dark. Perhaps that's why they make the perfect mascot for career change. 🦉 The wisest of Owls. Many professional women spend years looking after everyone else's careers, families, teams and ambitions before pausing to ask one important question: "Is my career still right for me?" The answer isn'

Have you ever noticed what happens when you have too many browser tabs open? At first, everything works perfectly. You barely notice the extra tabs sitting there. Then a few more appear. A work document, an online shop you meant to come back to, a recipe you saved, a news article you wanted to read, something you need to remember for later. Before long, the computer starts slowing down. Not because one tab is the problem, but because they are all competing for attention at th

The British weather has a reputation for being unpredictable. You can leave the house in sunshine, encounter a sudden downpour before lunch, experience a dramatic gust of wind by mid-afternoon, and then wonder why you ever packed an umbrella in the first place! ☔ Interestingly, our careers can behave in exactly the same way. Changing weather results in changing landscapes! Recently, I found myself organising a large public event for a club I had only been involved with for ab

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and yes, I know I'm a little late to the party. In my defence, I was busy celebrating my 50th birthday in what can only be described as spectacular style. I headed off to an amazing music festival completely on my own. 🎶💃 And before you ask, yes, it was absolutely fantastic. My butterfly costume looked fab in the breeze! At some point during the weekend, after a conversation with a lovely woman in the toilets at 4am, I somehow managed t

If AI were a colleague, it would be that wildly efficient new starter who can draft meeting notes in 12 seconds, reorganise a spreadsheet before your tea goes cold, and still leave everyone slightly suspicious about what exactly it is planning next. For professional women in the UK, artificial intelligence is not some distant sci-fi plotline . It is already shaping recruitment, job design, promotion pathways, skills expectations and, quite frankly, the mood music of work itse