Joyce Hardie

I was a committed career girl complete with 5 inch heels and power suits, and I thought that would be the case until I retired. But life has a habit of getting in the way.

I got ill and for a year doctors poked and prodded and took blood trying to work out what was wrong with me. Throughout the year I was given medication to relieve the symptoms and carried on with my career.

A month before I received a diagnosis, my husband took a new job in Dubai and I stayed at home to look after my daughter who was a critical stage in her education. Fast forward two years, my daughter left home to go to University, my condition had deteriorated and I had to give up my job, I couldn’t get medical insurance to go to Dubai and my husband couldn’t give up his job because that was our only income.

I did what any respectable girl would do I opened a wine bottle, I started my own business (which bombed) and I held a self -pity party. I looked online for support but all the life coaches were half my age and couldn’t relate to what was going on in my head. So I started to look for techniques to use that would get me back on the straight and narrow.

Now I run two (successful) businesses, I am a non -exec director for a local development trust, I volunteer and I am on the board of a local charity and I am a best-selling author. I tell you this not to boast but to show what is possible. I was 54 when I lost my job and 6 years on I want to help other women who have lost their purpose to find a new direction for their lives to take.

My mission is to ensure that no woman settles for a mediocre life because they believe they are not worthy of anything better. I will remove the beliefs that hinder them and ensure that in every situation and every conversation they know they are equal to everyone else.