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Billionaires secretive networks

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A seat inside The Global Family Office Community (GFOC), one of the most discreet and secretive networks in the world, where community of families that control fortunes worth billions of pounds is effectively a floating private members’ Clun for the world’s  wealthiest families meeting around the world at  private dinners, retreats, seminars and conferences. Over 2, 500 families are now members of this elite exclusive club. They are not chasing the next big deal, but advice, perspective and this is one place they discuss the problems money cannot solve, “No one is pitching anything at them, it’s a safe place where they can come … Continue reading Billionaires secretive networks

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Retrain your brain to stop limiting your full potential

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If your new idea or a goal that excites you but no enough time to execute it what will you do?  What about a goal you really want to accomplish but can’t because instead of taking action, you procrastinate? Do you feel like the only way things are going to get done is if you do them? But what if it wasn’t that way? What if you had a team of people around you that helped you to accomplish your goals ( while you helped them accomplish theirs?) When we want something done, we’ve been trained to ask ourselves: “How can … Continue reading Retrain your brain to stop limiting your full potential

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Personal rediscovery, pursuing passion to recapture a lost love on an impulse

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How do we lose touch with things we love? And is it possible to find out way back to them? These questions drive professional writer and managing editor of news organisation Coda Story, Nadia Beard on a quest to reclaim the dreams of her childhood for her adult self. Swimming and cycling once you learn you never forget is the same true with piano? Beard frames her musical homecoming as a journey of personal rediscovery after turning away from music following university. Until them, “playing the piano and cello was the core of my life” Nadia remembers. Growing up in … Continue reading Personal rediscovery, pursuing passion to recapture a lost love on an impulse

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Dolly Parton: Her legacy

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Dolly Parton, the country singer from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, died aged 80 after a brief battle with cancer,  will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories so honestly, such as Coat of Many Colors, Jolene and Will Always Love You. In her seven-decade career, Parton won 10 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and wrote in excess of 3, 000 songs. Dolly Parton in1980 was filming her first Hollywood movie, 9 to 5, her idea for the tune title song that would become the movie’s theme song. Her guitar was banned from the set, … Continue reading Dolly Parton: Her legacy

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Devastation of separation and the pain of betrayal

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Avni Doshi, the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar  comes a fascinating novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family, her betrayal, renunciation, and renewal, who swims to the other side and comes up for air. When my husband comes into the bedroom we have shared thirteen years and tells me he doesn’t want to be married anymore, I reach for my neck. My head is missing. A husband announces he is leaving, that he was never happy. A woman is left behind with their two … Continue reading Devastation of separation and the pain of betrayal

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Oppression turns into rebellion as children stripped of their innocence

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Tahmima Anam’s Uprising reveals a group of children witnessing their mothers living lives of cruelty and servitude on a desolate sinking island off the coast of Bangladesh. Bought and sold by Amma, the ruthless madam who was once herself sold into slavery, as the victim becomes the perpetrator, the women have accepted their fates as sex workers. Yet their children weave fantastic tales, imagining that someday they will escape the island and enjoy a life of freedom.  When Kusum Khan, a young educated woman from the city, is brought to the island, she too is subjected to Amma’s violent induction. … Continue reading Oppression turns into rebellion as children stripped of their innocence

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Do we have the courage to learn amid “Existential risk”?, a survival kit for the gloomy world

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Award-winning journalist, John Kampfner travel to ten countries confronting our shared challenges with bravery and imagination provides a “survival kit” for a world enveloped in gloom. Kampfner’s Braver New World reveals ground breaking exploration of the countries solving the world’s most pressing problems differently and the lessons for the rest of the world. Democracies often gets paralyzed by fear and populations are turning inward. In Japan, he discovers inter-generational care homes ensuring dignity in later life. He visits Vienna’s century-old housing projects where 60 per cent of resident live in subsidised accommodation without stigma and communities thrive. Taiwan’s health system … Continue reading Do we have the courage to learn amid “Existential risk”?, a survival kit for the gloomy world

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A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

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“Every Successful marriage has its own private language.” So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London life. It is for spiky millennial screenwriter Phoebe and her charming loafer of a partner, Tony. John Lanchester, a former restaurant reviewer, brochettes the pretensions affluent, middle-aged metropolitans when architect Jack says at a Notting Hill dinner party that Yotam Ottolenghi had destroyed British cooking and “done more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe”. Jack’s wife Kate, who is one of the novel’s two narrators, finds him dead from … Continue reading A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

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Don’t give the customer what they want, give them what they don’t know they want yet

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Gene Pressman’s memoir of his time working for the legendary New York Department store Barneys founded by his grandfather, comes when the authors helps open its vast new outpost on Madison Avenue in 1993. The luxury store, complete with mosaic floors, custom-made furniture, saltwater fish tanks, a restaurant and floors of beauty, jewellery and clothes. Pressman writes “ The store is amazing. It’s hard to be humble knowing stores just didn’t look like this – not anymore”. Barney’s had, he says, “gone back to the past to the grand  department stores just didn’t look like this – not anymore. Barney’s had … Continue reading Don’t give the customer what they want, give them what they don’t know they want yet

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Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle

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“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. The class system in England reveals deep-seated societal values and prejudices, often influences opportunities and lifestyle”-V.S. Naipaul Bridget Maeve Phillipson, the current Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, since July 2024, who was on free school meals, working class northern England, from single parent family who had grown up in poverty in council accommodation on benefits but defied her deprived background to … Continue reading Defied her deprived background to get into Oxford reaching the pinnacle