My story begins the half way through my career. I had proven to the world that a woman could be a respected and successful corporate restaurateur. However, I started to notice that my body was reacting to the extremely long hours of work. I also became psychologically exhausted because of the cumulative anxiety that I experienced worrying about maintaining my success. 

In retrospect, it was clear that I had no balance in my life but only obsessed with working harder. Consequently, I required medical intervention. This meant prescribed medication and counselling to combat the anxiety and depression, as well as, the inability to control my weight. 

Some six months later, I felt worse because I lost the energy, I needed. This turned into a reliance on medications I had to maintain the work, and, hence, the continuing success of my business. After some time, I began to reflect on my life, work, and general health when I had an epiphany that changed me forever.

Successful people achieve their goals in life through hard work or by working smarter. I began to analyse myself and realised that I had proven myself, worked ridiculous hours but at the cost of my health. Proving myself to the work may have been achieved had I not ‘pushed’ my body to exhaustion and ill health. However, simply, may have taken a longer time.