The Wage Gap Exists

Let’s get this straight – the wage gap does exist.

Chatting with someone this week they said exactly this. I was stunned at first, and then I began to think more about it. When a person burns out, we often think they’ve fallen off a cliff – that is have found themselves unable to work, to show up. Nothing seems to help. They need rest. Often need medical support. I’ve not burnt out to that point myself, and have experienced at different times that feeling of tiredness, loss of concentration, yearning to lay somewhere in the sun or in bed and not move… for days or weeks. This often happens off the back of an extremely busy time. There are degrees of burnout, and I’m wondering if you’ve ever noticed yourself or someone else showing early signs of burnout? What did you do? How did you respond? Let’s look at those early signs of burnout and see if it can liberate you! Symptoms of burnout include; lack of concentration, tiredness, blurry eyes, starting to be critical or feeling cynical about your work, short-fused with work related people, disillusioned about your

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When Everyone Says Yes: What Victoria Beckham Can Teach Us About Leadership

Sometimes success doesn’t fail because of bad ideas — it fails because no one dares to question them. When Victoria Beckham revealed in her limited series that her business once spent £60,000 a year on plants — simply because she liked them — it wasn’t the cost that caught my attention. It was what she said next. Before she brought in her business partner, everyone around her said yes to everything. No questions. No resistance. No accountability. She wondered whether it was a celebrity thing — that people didn’t challenge her because she was Victoria Beckham. The result? A company haemorrhaging money and losing direction. When she finally brought in a partner who told her the truth — and took charge of the areas outside her expertise — everything changed. They went back to fundamentals: she focused on what she knew best, her partner did the same, and the business turned into a success story. You don’t have to be a Spice Girl to fall into the same trap. Every leader, business owner, or professional has blind spots — those

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