I’ve actually been thinking about this off and on all day but been too busy to sit down.

It’s difficult as I don’t think I really enjoyed my teenage years.

I had a good group of friends but I was always searching for something else.

I think I was lost, I had no direction I just didn’t know what I was good at or what I could do.

I was very good at English and loved drama but there was no encouragement.

The expectation was you left school, got a job, met a boy, got married had kids then moved into a nice semi detached down the road.

If I could turn the clock back I would have started in media that would have been my passion maybe journalism.

Any advice I’d give to myself would be to have confidence.

I had zero confidence and didn’t believe I was good at anything. Believe in yourself.

Be brave as in years to come you will be brave, have confidence in your ability you can do it.

And it will be ok, things that seem awful now will really not be that bad in the future. It will work out. Just have faith in yourself.

I now have two teenagers myself so I will be encouraging them to follow your dreams as if you don’t try you will never know.

Thank you x