In October 2020, the pandemic gave me the opportunity to pivot my career and start ZEST OF: YOU so I can focus on my dual interests of health behaviour change and gender health equity.

The goal of this edition of my life is to provide all women and girls, whose voices are often under-represented, over-looked and under-valued, access to ZEST OF: YOU’s creative, engaging and motivating health and wellness service and experience, so they can make sustainable behaviour change that leads to improved physical, emotional and mental health and well-being for themselves and their families.

However, to start off with I’m focusing on supporting midlife women like me, who want this stage of their life to be one where they strive to achieve their health and wellness goals, so they can live a more purposeful, peaceful and pleasurable life as they age. 

N.B. Please get in touch if you would like to talk to me about supporting your midlife employees or users of your community services. 

As well as over 20 years in marketing research and behaviour change,  I have obtained relevant qualifications and training (see column on the left).

I’m also volunteering as a trustee for Sheffield Occupational Health Association, helping people with long term, progressive and terminal health conditions to stay in work, on the Findacure Patient Engagement Committee (a rare disease support organisation), as a Macmillan cancer well-being coach supporting the well-being of people living or caring for someone with a cancer diagnosis; encouraging women and girls to get more active, as a member of Sheffield and Hallamshire Football Association Inclusion Group and as a This Girl Can Ambassador co-leading a women’s couch to 5K jogging group.

The last thing to say is, I’ve been where you are, I’m not super fit, I love cake and I sometimes have low emotional well-being.