MWOTY Social Impact Winner 2022! Why I am still celebrating!

I'm still on a high from the MWOTY AWARDS 🎉

To understand why clearly is to time travel back to December 2020. I had just been made redundant from my role due to the impact of the pandemic and was faced with an important decision:

1️⃣ Apply for a well paid full time job at another organisation

or

2️⃣ Start my own creative business and follow my writing dream

I chose the latter option.

It was exciting and terrifying in equal measure. I used all my skills from my previous positions to make my business and writing career a success; building a community of support and opportunities and linking in my EDI work with Anthony Walker Foundation and my activism with The Period Project Merseyside, The Goddess Projects and Scouse Solidarity Sisters.

Within 6 months I was offered an amazing book opportunity as a children's author and secured a dream literary agent to help support my career.

My business, Skywriters Ltd, has been involved in fantastic projects over the year, making real positive changes across Merseyside. What's so exciting is we have so much more to come!

The final realisation that I made the right decision came on Friday 1st July 2022 when I was crowned Merseyside Woman of the Social Impact Award Winner!🏆

If you have a passion, a calling, a heart project then indulge it with dedication. Create the life you wish to lead and bring others along with you. Centre your community. That's not very business like advice but as I mentioned in my acceptance speech on Friday, everything I have achieved took a village to breathe life into, develop and grow.

I think about where I would be if I went for the easier safer option in December 2020 and I'm so glad I chose the unknown.

My ultimate goal is to make myself redundant, create change in anti-racism, period poverty, the creative world and general society, so that my services are no longer required. That for me is a true measure of success.

I called my business Skywriters as an aspirational title. To lift heads and hearts including my own.

Here's to following our dreams and making the world a little brighter along the way! ✨️

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