In a world that feels increasingly unpredictable, your network isn’t just helpful—it’s becoming everything.

I thought networking was a room full of people trying to sell to each other… I was wrong. Here’s what changed my mind — and why it matters more than ever in today’s world of work.

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon talking with some truly incredible women at the LuxeLoop event. And as the conversations unfolded, a very clear theme kept surfacing. So many women are in a new season of life — but their careers haven’t quite caught up yet. For many, their youngest child has just gone to intermediate (middle school). They’ve got a bus card. They can get themselves around. There’s no longer the same need to be at the school gates, organising pickups, structuri