I have played many roles throughout my life: daughter, wife, mother of four, WAG, sister, friend, businesswoman, author, speaker, podcaster, coach and now grandmother. Each have shaped me in a different way, some through enormous joy and others through challenge and hardship, but together they have formed many chapters of my life.
For more than two decades, I lived within the world of elite football. From the outside, my life looked successful, exciting and complete. Yet beneath the surface, I had become emotionally depleted and disconnected from my own sense of self. When my marriage ended, I was forced to look beyond the titles and ask a question many women eventually face: Who am I now?
Rebuilding taught me that status, relationships and the many hats we wear do not define us. Who we are lives beneath all of that... in the woman we were before life made us question ourselves, doubt our abilities and sabotage our dreams.
The most important journey is the one that leads us back to her.
And although our lives may look entirely different from one another, our deepest human needs are fundamentally the same: to love and be loved; to feel seen, heard and respected; and to feel connected and fully alive.
This is what drives me. I want women to know that whatever their age, background or circumstances, they are more than the roles they perform, and it is never too late to rediscover themselves and imagine something more.