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Ros Canter won Badminton Horse Trials in May.
Seventeen weeks after giving birth to her second daughter. Still breastfeeding. On the same horse she won Burghley with last September, when she was five...
You don't get to opt out of your mental health the way you opt out of a Pilates class.
You have a brain. It is doing things whether you "prioritise" it or not. When you say you've chosen not to prior...
Reese Witherspoon turned 50 in March.
I first fell in love with her in the summer of 2001. I was 21, living in New York on the Goldman Sachs training programme, and went to see Legally Blonde at the ...
I don't move through life thinking it's harder because I'm a woman.
It's just not how I think.
So when Cherie DeVaux became the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby this year, the bit that...
Kim Kardashian told 350 million followers she failed the bar exam.
And then she said she's using the failure "as fuel."
I know. It's Kim Kardashian. You might have already rolled your eyes and start...
I've never watched a single episode of Strictly Come Dancing.
Not one. Even though I know it's a national institution. But even from the outside, I can see something remarkable happening on that stag...
I read 46 books in 2025.
I didn't plan a theme. I just followed what pulled me. But when I looked at the list at the end of the year, patterns emerged. Turns out your reading list is a mirror. It sho...
Chill bosses never win.
I know that's not a popular opinion. We're in an era that celebrates "laid-back leadership" and "psychological safety" and "bringing your whole self to work." And those things...
Susie Wolff is one of my heroes.
I interviewed her in person a few years ago when she came to speak at our company, and what struck me wasn't the glamour of her world,Ā it was how utterly professiona...
Goldman Sachs put me through 32 interviews before they said yes.
Mad, I know. But back then, that was standard operating procedure at the world's most prestigious investment bank.
The Gauntlet
Ther...
Ā Last week I had dinner with the most fascinating woman, and it's left me buzzing with excitement about a completely fresh approach to getting things done.

Meet the AstroTwins
Ophira Edut is one hal...
Last month I slept in what can only be described as a coffin-sized bunk above a truck cab.Ā
Five days in a muddy field with my horses and dogs at the final big competition of the year, this is the re...
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