by Margie | Sep 4, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
This last weekend sixty-four year old Diana Nyad fulfilled a life long dream to swim the 180 kilometres from Cuba to Key West. Having tried and failed four times before, it was no small feat. As she crawled out of the water, her lips swollen, her face puffed up and...
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 | Apr 16, 2013 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
Two of my friends ran in this years Boston marathon. Only one got to finish. I can only imagine the myriad of emotions they and the thousands of other runners and spectators who were affected directly by the blasts must have felt Shock. Horror. Fear. Relief. Anger. ...
by Margie | Apr 2, 2013 | Brave Parenting, Live Passionately
Ten years ago today my son Matthew arrived into the world. As I made the kids a special celebratory pancake breakfast this morning (complete with chocolate milkshakes and a special operatic rendition of Happy Birthday) it dawned on me that it’s also ten years today...
