October 2026 | Hair Chair Diaries Nobody really wants to talk about insurance, do they? Life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection. It's hardly the most exciting conversation, especially when you're busy living your life, working, raising children and paying the bills. But something has really stayed with me following two recent conversations on Hair Chair Diaries. I sat down with two incredible women, Mel and Helinka, who both experienced bowel cancer. Two dif

There are some conversations that stay with you because they make you realise how much women have been expected to carry quietly. The first two Hair Chair Diaries episodes have made one thing really clear to me. Women are not dramatic. Women are not lazy. Women are not “just getting older”. Women are often uninformed, unsupported and left to work out huge changes in their bodies, brains, careers and relationships on their own. And that is what I keep thinking of as the menopa

A personal reflection on motherhood, confidence, legacy and the quiet power of letting our children watch us become.

Community, courage and why sometimes you have to build the space before you feel ready.

A reminder that our children do not just see the result. They see the studying, the trying, the pressure and the rebuilding too.