13/05/2026
Last Friday at the historic London Stock Exchange, I got to be a part of the inaugural Disruptors Festival, created by Sophia Ukor, Founder and CEO of .
There are moments in our lives when our past catches up to the present.
When who we were, and who we are meet in the NOW time register.
And when these parts of us meet, there is a reconciling.
A kind of integration.
A new sense of wholeness that happens.
I sat on stage with two other incredible women, Emmie Wills and Poppy Delbridge, and in conversation with a room full of people willing to look at life differently.
To talk openly about subjects that want speaking to precisely because we don’t have the answers. Or at least we’ve not lived the answers to the questions on our heart fully yet.
Questions like:
“What is your current relationship to change, and where does it challenge you most right now?” As we live in uncertain times.
Questions like:
“When is ‘doing it on your own’ an affirmation of our strength, or a suit of armour that keeps us from loving another?” When we have choice in how we’d like to live.
Questions like:
“Why is it that empathy and compassion are the hallmarks of a healthy human, and so many ‘successful’ leaders in business are quite the opposite?” When the world we see around us doesn’t seem to reflect or support our values, what do we do?
We sat in the unknowing together. And in that space we began to craft the world in which we’d like to live.
The world of today. And of tomorrow. And perhaps, even of yesterday.
I hope for many more opportunities to sit in circle as I did at the Disruptor’s Festival with leaders like the ones I met throughout the day.
Together we rise.
Huge thank you to and for inviting me in. And to who introduced us.
And for beautiful conversations with Cath Kirchmann, Michele Paradise, , , Petrina Montrose, Aiko Sato, Dhruti Shah, Harsha Harjani James, Usha Kong, Arber Shining Ismaili 💫🌟💖🔥🌎 and so many more.
And those there in spirit Julia Streets, MBE. : )
