by Margie | Nov 20, 2013 | Build Resilience, Lead Purposefully, Live Passionately
We live in an era of entitlement, blame and finger pointing. Too few people are willing to take responsibility for the state of their lives, too many are happy to lay it at the feet of others (or hire a lawyer to sue the pants off them!) While there are some things...
by Margie | Oct 7, 2013 | Build Resilience, Speak Bravely
Twenty years ago tomorrow I got married (yes, a child bride!). Two decades on I’m still married… and to the same man no less! Better still, I’m as happy to be his wife as I was when I walked down the aisle – white veil on my head, red roses in my hands – to...
by Margie | Aug 5, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately, Speak Bravely, Work Courageously
In late 1996, when I was nineteen weeks pregnant with my first child, I found myself in the midst of a violent armed robbery in Papua New Guinea. With a gun thrust into my forehead, I was commanded to open the company safe where the robbers (or ‘rascals’ as they are...
by Margie | Jul 17, 2013 | Build Resilience
I’ve just returned from two weeks travelling through Vietnam and Cambodia (with Intrepid Travel) with my family (Click here for my favorite travel snaps). In between lots of wonderful family fun and adventurous ‘firsts’ (“Crispy fried crickets anyone?”), I had...
by Margie | Dec 18, 2012 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
The tragedy of so many innocent lives lost so brutally last Friday in Newtown Connecticut has dimmed the festive spirit for many people this week. Trying to comprehend the mind of someone who could commit such a barbaric act is impossible. Trying to imagine the raw...
