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AI Generated Image - Women In STEM By the time they reach 35, half of the women who start careers in STEM have already left . That’s a stark number — but it’s also why I believe so strongly in telling these stories. Because behind every statistic are women who’ve carved their own paths, challenged cultures, and built careers in spaces not designed for them. And every woman who stays and thrives makes it easier for the next one to do the same. Over more than two decades in eng

Yaowarat Road, Bangkok, 2025 After over six years of living between China, Italy, and Vietnam, I’ve learned that moving to another...

Chat GPT generated image of Tracy with possible career directions In Part One of this post, I shared the stories I wish someone had told...

AI Generated Image of Tracy blowing out candles on a 21st birthday cake My family had taken me to the train station in Edinburgh and...

Hong Kong Big Buddha 2015 A couple of weeks ago, I received a message in my LinkedIn inbox from a colleague from my time living and...

Photo by charlesdeluvio  on Unsplash In 2021 I jacked it all in. Walked away from a 15+ year career in engineering. Just like that. Done....

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin  on Unsplash I’d been working with a female founder for a few months. At the beginning of our sessions, we’d...

Photo by Burst on Unsplash If you work in a technical field, you've probably faced the question at some point: should you move into...

Photo by Raquel Moss on Unsplash I’m getting a bit tired of hearing stories of women in STEM being passed over for promotion — or...

Photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash Over the past few months, I’ve had mentoring conversations with professionals navigating career...

It was a hot, sunny day in Shenzhen, 2020. I’d gone to a pool with my friend Laura, who was reading Designing Your Life  by Dave Evans...

6 years ago I was sitting on my sofa in Shenzhen. I had worked hard my whole life to get to this moment. I had a beautiful apartment with...

Let me know if this sounds familiar. You go to school and you do well in certain subjects, therefore you elect to study this further at...

I never wanted an ordinary life. I never wanted to 'make do' with what was given to me. I grew up in a crappy council estate in Central...

In 2021, my life changed overnight; on a Monday I was suspended from work and escorted from the premises and two weeks later I was fired...

I didn’t realise what kind of trouble I was in until I had to buy new clothes. My weight naturally fluctuates throughout the year, but I...