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Over the years I have had several mentors. They have almost always been people outside of my social enterprise and especially people who aren’t afraid to give voice to their own opinion. I know where my skills lie and that I don’t have all the answers, and readily seek advice from people I have come to respect. To me it is important to run ideas past my mentors and I have different mentors with expertise in different areas. If the issue I want to discuss is work related it is important to me...

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This morning I was one of two speakers at the WIRE conference at Worcester Race Course. The keynote was Karen Hardy from Strictly Come Dancing, followed by a break, then me, then my workshop and then lunch. Unfortunately Karen was delayed by traffic and so I took her place – not literally of course – I can’t dance as well for one thing. I spoke to a very receptive audience of 120 business women, some (they told me) had come to find out more about social enterprise -  I had b...

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