As a parent of both a teenager and a young baby, I can tell you from personal experience that children will drive you to the brink of insanity. The naughty step has long been a parenting tactic either used to teach children ‘a lesson’, or to find a moment to calm down in the wake […]

What’s this? What’s this? Halloween is here!  Or, as I like to call it, ‘National Eat Your Child’s Halloween Candy After They’ve Gone To Sleep Day’!  Whether you have spent the past week immersed in scary movies, elbow deep in pumpkin guts and frantically decorating your house to resemble a haunted mansion or are simply […]

I was recently invited to read Happy Healthy Wealthy Entrepreneurs by the HHW Mastermind Group, which was founded by James Ker-Reid. The book sheds light on how many of us poorly manage our work-life balance and focuses on teaching the reader how to shift priorities in order to become successful in business whilst making time […]

The term othering is used to describe prejudicial actions towards a specific individual or group of people who do not fit in with one’s own social norms. Simply put, it describes the formation of majority and minority groups. As quoted in an article by Other Sociologist Dr Zuleyka Zevallos, Polish sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman […]

Lava Bombs: Truths Behind The Volcano, a GeoTenerife and New Light Studio production directed by Alexander Whittle and produced by Sharon Backhouse, is a powerfully emotive new documentary film which tells the devastating story of the 2021 Tajogaite volcano eruption in La Palma. Famous Publicity has supported Sharon and GeoTenerife for the past eight years. […]

Happy Healthy Wealthy Entrepreneurs by The HHW Mastermind Group provides a thought-provoking framework for successful entrepreneurialism. Unlike many other books in the genre, it does not focus on generating as much cash as possible in the shortest amount of time, but rather delivers a sobering reality about the way we prioritise elements of our lives […]

We have all heard about feminism, sexism and racism, but a new ‘ism’ seems to be emerging… ableism. Ableism is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as discrimination in favour of able-bodied people. The term was most recently used to describe offensive song lyrics containing an ‘ableist slur’ derived from medical terminology that is still widely […]

Whilst many of us are privileged to work in a job role that we dearly enjoy, for others work is simply a means to an end. Either way, the responsibilities and pressures of work – married, for some, with the stress of parenthood – can weigh heavily on your mental health if you have no […]

In a society suffering from social media-fatigue, one that is always ‘on’, WhatsApp is perhaps the most notorious time goblin. Much like its parent app, Facebook, WhatsApp seems to have taken over our personal lives. But it won’t stop there – it’s coming for our professional lives too. WhatsApp is widely successful with around two […]