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Nearly ten years ago, on an ordinary work trip, I crossed paths with an extraordinary woman. She lit up the room with her energy, charm, and that unforgettable smile the kind that makes you feel like you’ve known her forever. By the end of that trip, she had offered me a job, and just like that, she became my boss.
From that moment on, Kirsty Danks-Brown wasn’t just a leader in my career she became a source of inspiration in my life. Her positive attitude, unstoppable drive, and generous spirit left a mark that time and distance can’t fade.
Today, she’s back in her native Australia, but I know it’s only a matter of time before our paths cross again.
I’m a ridiculous animal lover and my pets are there to prove it. I currently live in the wellness hemisphere for mind and body and I’m absolutely loving it.
I’m the Director of Sales & Marketing for luxury hotels. I love the variety that the job brings, access to travel, constant learning, and keeping up with new ways of working in revenue, marketing, and sales. The role is dynamic and always changing.
My manager at the time channeled me into sales and marketing, believing I was better suited for it than my previous HR role.
I either wanted to be the Prime Minister of my country or a housewife I couldn’t decide which.
I’m up at 5:30 a.m., walk my puppy, feed the cat, and grab coffee on the way to work. My mornings start with meetings, often with the Executive Committee, and the rest of the day is a mix of team coordination, client events, and travel for tradeshows. I finish around 6:30 p.m., then it’s home to more puppy walks, cat care, and life admin before bed at 10:30 p.m.
The travel is exciting it gives me a sense of freedom and space not always having to be in the office. The biggest challenge is managing people; everyone is unique, and channeling their motivation effectively is key.
Rebellious, self-centered, independent, bulletproof, and convinced I knew everything.
Yes. I often felt I wasn’t intelligent, pretty, or slim enough. My approach was to be brutally honest with myself know my strengths and weaknesses. If you are not good at something be honest and ask yourself why. If it is because you are too lazy to change that issue, then be honest with yourself and move on to something that is important and motivates you. If something mattered, I worked on it; if not, I stopped beating myself up and accepted who I was.
My GM once told me, “You are not saving the world, so stop acting like what you do is the most important thing in everyone’s day.” At the time, it felt harsh like he didn’t see the effort I was putting in. But looking back, I realize I was making those around me miserable with my demands. The truth is, you’re not the most important person in the world you’re simply one of many. And that perspective changes everything. It felt harsh at the time, but it made me realize I needed to change my approach and not make others miserable in the process.
You are 100% responsible for who you are. You make or break who you are, and you choose to accept or deny influences and experiences. You have the ability to be whatever you want to be personally. Don’t blame your parents, your lack of advantage, your education level. There are so many examples in life of people who have come from nothing and are amazing. Those examples are people who didn’t play the victim and actually made a difference for themselves.
I wanted total freedom. I’ve achieved it to some extent, but freedom still comes with the reality of needing to work to live and travel.
I make myself do the thing I fear. Time isn’t infinite, so I push through, knowing the experience will teach me something valuable.
You better ask me How Many times. There is no such thing as failure, consider it learning but be honest with yourself and dissect why you failed. It is only failure if you don’t learn from the experience. Sometimes you only realized you learned something years and years later. I honestly believe that everything happens for a reason.
I take care of my health both body and mind, and stay disciplined about habits like limiting overconsumption of food, drink, and social media. I have been very guilty of doing this and had to become disciplined and structured to change habits.
Success is contentment.
Success is when my head is quiet and my body relaxed.
Success is not being worried about not wearing the right clothes, going to the right places and being seen by the right people. When I am not comparing myself to social media influencers and knowing that my life is not the same and I should do me.
I think this perspective comes with age. You stop aspiring to be what you are told is fashionable or what is important for people to think you are valuable as aperson.
I’m a total introvert, though people rarely see me that way.
“Non, je ne regret rien” by Edith Piaf,French or English, at full blast.
I didn’t really have one to be honest, closest would have been my older sister. I liked bits and pieces of lots of men and women and my direction changed so often and so quickly that not one single person signified the total role model.
That I’m not Prime Minister and that being a stay-at-home mom wasn’t fulfilling for me.
Get out of your own head. You will never be enough, enough is relative. Start looking at all thethings you are to begin with, don’t compare yourself but be honest. You will find the list of things you are, is likely much longer than the list you aren’t…honesty is the key here. Don’t be a victim when you write the list and don’t be too harsh on yourself, find your inner Goldilocks.
Exercise, eat nourishing food, educate yourself on many topics, and keep exploring your passions.
At this stage of my life my ambition is self-care/or doing what makes me happy (never at the expense of anyone else though, that is important), I wish I was focused on this earlier in my life.
Educate yourself, find your passion, follow yourself, respect everybody’s opinion and point of view, you don’t need to agree with them to listen and understand that the world has so many different points of views, you may learn something.
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
