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, structuring life around...

I’ve just returned from a New Zealand history tour I’ve been wanting to do for nearly 15 years. I still can’t quite believe it took me until my late 40s to finally visit Waitangi. To stand where early settlers arrived. To learn more deeply about the resilience, wisdom and whakapapa of Māori. To better understand the Treaty of Waitangi and its ongoing significance in shaping who we are as a country. It was an extraordinary trip. A whistle-stop 5-day trip. We ate at the award-winning...

The past couple of weeks have stretched me in ways I didn’t quite expect. If you’ve been in my world for a while, you’ll know I’m generally someone who can hold a lot — family, work, clients, commitments — and keep moving forward with a fairly steady rhythm. But recently, life handed me a cluster of big, beautiful, meaningful things all at once… and the emotional hangover caught up with me. A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated my eldest daughter’s 21st. It was a huge out-of-town event: 80...