by Eugenie Verney | Feb 5, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
We’re on to Day 7, I’m a third of the way through my 21 Days of Courage, and I’ve turned on the radio… It’s Sunday morning and that meant just one thing when I was growing up — The Archers Omnibus. Nothing much was sacrosanct in our house, but suggest to...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 4, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
On Day 6 of my 21 Days of Courage, I’m looking at my family’s line of business… My parents did not enjoy their work. They really didn’t. Neither of them had envisaged ending up doing what they did for a living, and this made for a somewhat skewed...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 3, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
It’s Day 5 of 21 Days of Courage and I’m back at the kitchen table with my parents… There weren’t many subjects that were taboo around the kitchen table when I was growing up — in fact, I struggle to find much of consequence my parents weren’t prepared to...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 31, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
For Day 4 of 21 Days of Courage, I introduce you to someone who had a big impact on me, professionally and personally… There are not that many people about whom I can say it was a privilege to have known them, but I can when it comes to Sam Lesser. Unequivocally...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 30, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
Day 3 of 21 Days of Courage… My mother’s default response to most things she couldn’t instantly fix and that were not actually down to her anyway was: ‘It’s not my fault. I can’t help it.’ I don’t recall when I first became consciously aware of this but I...
by Eugenie Verney | Jan 29, 2020 | FAQs, Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
On to Day 2 of my 21 Days of Courage writing challenge… It’s a question I have asked myself for what feels like forever: ‘Do you have the courage of your convictions?’ And the answer is, yes. Or rather, it’s yes when I’m viewing the world through the lens of...