As many of you know, Dan and I recently relocated from London to Charlotte and so far we are loving our new life. Here’s how the ‘Queen City’ compares to the Queen’s home town...

Culture and Community

Charlotte is a city with a small-town feel, and balances the best of b...

Have we said goodbye to good old fashioned manners ? 

I've started reading Bob Burg and John David Mann's 'The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea', which is particularly poignant at Christmas time. We all want to give give give, but these feelings o...

Yesterday I was walking to the station listening to Eckhart Tolle's 'The Power of Now' when I was hit by the full force of the 'now' in motorbike form! I was very lucky to escape with just bruises and a broken phone. Yet it was as if Eckhart Tolle himself had created a...

I underestimated the impact of saying: “I’ve signed up for a stand-up gig”. I suddenly became a figurehead of fearlessness diving into the hardest profession known to man. Forget open-heart surgery or fire-fighting, standing up on stage and trying to be funny is consid...

Training as a yoga teacher in India exposed me to a diverse mix of like-minded people from all over the globe. Throughout the course we shared our experiences and talents with one another, enabling us to gain far more from the month than just a yoga teaching qualificat...

Everything about my time with OBRA Theatre was rich and authentic. The food. The people. The place. But most importantly, the performance. OBRA strips back theatre to its bare bones, creating spine-tingling performance that speaks to the soul. Essentially, they cut the...

Our senses are so much more powerful than we realise. But far too often they are functioning on 'auto pilot': letting the brain pre-empt sounds, sights and sensations, instead of truly realising their surroundings. Our brains are very good at picking out chunks of sens...

I am currently on a 2-week residency with OBRATheatre, set on Au Brana Farm in the South of France.Here’s how I am getting on...

What’s great about the workshop is that it isn’t focused on an end goal. The journey is at the very heart of the process, which encourages th...