When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of his

garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello, good morning to you all and welcome to episode 48 of Join Up Dot.

We are going global. On a daily basis I wake up and look at the

map of the world and if you're in podcasting you get the kind of vision of the

world and it starts showing where people are listening and every time I look at it

another country has gone green so I'm really proud to say that we are big in France.

Hello France how are you this morning?

It's great to have you listening.

And today's guest is a lady that I should have had on a couple of weeks ago,

but just as we were about to recall, the heavens opened and the storm that blew in just blew out all

our systems so it's an absolute delight to have her back on the show because she is

a lady who has such a towel to tell she is absolutely perfect for a show like

join-up dots. Known as someone who laughs a lot and I've been talking to her

already and she hasn't stopped laughing once which is great. There you go, you can hear her again.

She actually says in her own words that I don't look like what I've been through.

And she's certainly been through a lot, not least becoming a survivor of breast cancer.

Now living in New York she spent the majority of the last 30 years working in higher education

and it's obvious that she is a lady who believes in empowerment

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