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My Golden Ribbon Moment
The story that changed my life forever
In 2002, at the age of 29, I heard a simple story about a piece of ribbon that would change my life forever.
Before I share this life-changing story, let me take you back, ten years earlier, where, as a university student, I’d already met the first love of my life - business!
I knew what I wanted, or rather I knew what I didn’t want.
I didn’t want to get married.
I didn’t want children.
I wanted a career.
‘Children? No! There’s no way I can have the sort of career I want and have children’. I was so convinced, I bet my university girlfriends dinner at the Ritz -the most extravagant thing I could imagine then as a poor student!
When we graduated, all my friends took a year out travelling.
But not me - I had a wonderful job all lined up and I dived straight into my career.
A meteoric rise
I started work in marketing, in a high-tech company in the South of France, based in Sophia Antipolis – often...
