Self-promotion is an art I'm not very good at, truth be told, for while I love to share information and inspire people to make more of life, I shy away from sales pitches in waiting for something to happen that fits with my experience. In tandem with introducing you to a fleeting opportunity to see me on TV, therefore (follow the link behind the pic for the whole show), I'll let you in on the story so far.
In 1997, it all started to get weird. I met a married man who I thought could talk directly to my mind, and unbeknown to me, someone else I'd always loved (but was also married) was also looking for a doorway to my mind through his penchant for cyber-stalking. Between them, these two people created a situation in which my mind was literally blown, and through the smoke, lightning and bits of brain came a couple of entities I couldn't see, but came to trust over time. These unseen influencers drove me to the computer every morning at 6am sharp and told me to research things I'd never heard of, in very specific terms. Thus I came to learn about quantum mechanics and a host of spiritual principles that had never crossed my path before. And of course, my mental state got itself on the official record.
In 1997, it all started to get weird. I met a married man who I thought could talk directly to my mind, and unbeknown to me, someone else I'd always loved (but was also married) was also looking for a doorway to my mind through his penchant for cyber-stalking. Between them, these two people created a situation in which my mind was literally blown, and through the smoke, lightning and bits of brain came a couple of entities I couldn't see, but came to trust over time. These unseen influencers drove me to the computer every morning at 6am sharp and told me to research things I'd never heard of, in very specific terms. Thus I came to learn about quantum mechanics and a host of spiritual principles that had never crossed my path before. And of course, my mental state got itself on the official record.
In 2004, I qualified as a Life Coach after four years' study and completed a programme delivery to Corus Steel that resulted in record-breaking achievements by participating teams. Then my life changed again, not for the better, and a period of down-time left me bereft of the springboard I thought would come from the incredible success of the Corus programme.
So I fell into depression, and if you've been depressed, you'll know how hard it is to get out of that state of mind. Qualifications don't help in the navigation of life.
So I fell into depression, and if you've been depressed, you'll know how hard it is to get out of that state of mind. Qualifications don't help in the navigation of life.
In 2014, Quantumology was published, and I delivered a copy hot off the press to the person whose door I'd knocked on every decade or so for more than 30 years - to my surprise there was no wife to prevent me from having a cup of coffee and opening that portal up again, the one I didn't know was there, the one that would lead me into his workshop to watch an edition of The Chase he had carefully edited in advance so that I would get to see all the Chasers, before he told me that the chase was over and took up with someone new. In the resultant heartbreak (through which my partner stood by me all the way), I came to like The Chase enough to apply for a place on the show, and although I got through the audition I'd given up on making it to the studio when they called me in with a week's notice. This was it - I was going to Elstree.
2018; Elstree, London. On the way there, I sat on the train thinking I ought to have scanned a couple of encyclopedias for this show - I'd done not one scrap of research. A familiar voice then popped into my mind - I looked around to see if anyone else had heard it, but no....
"There will be a question on the Monopoly board, and the answer will be Mayfair."
I was pretty taken aback by that, but not until I was in the studio did the message prove its own credence. More proof, if any were needed, that there are many things over which we have no control at all. More irony would follow.
Kissing Bradley was something I knew in advance that I had to do. I couldn't have lived with myself if I walked away and hadn't kissed him. To top it all, on The Chase Bloopers he told viewers I'd left with a restraining order!
"There will be a question on the Monopoly board, and the answer will be Mayfair."
I was pretty taken aback by that, but not until I was in the studio did the message prove its own credence. More proof, if any were needed, that there are many things over which we have no control at all. More irony would follow.
Kissing Bradley was something I knew in advance that I had to do. I couldn't have lived with myself if I walked away and hadn't kissed him. To top it all, on The Chase Bloopers he told viewers I'd left with a restraining order!
2019. One of the respondents on Twitter said I looked like Taylor Swift. My love had led to a love of Taylor since Blank Space hit the charts, and so for me, this was another cherry on what had proved to be a most uncertain, chequered trail to the TV studios and beyond, to where I sit now sharing this with you, while we still have time, while you can still watch it and wonder whether I can really say it was all true......
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