Running a small business can be tough. I mean, you're not just the CEO, you're also the marketing, the finance manager and everything else in between.

Technology, however, and digital tools can play a big part in taking on some of these tasks, giving you that much-needed headspace to focus on running your business.

But it's hard to know where to start.

Which tools are right for you?

How do you go about integrating them?

And when is the right time to make the investment?

MasterCard's Drive UK program has been set up to make it easy for small business owners

to access the support needed to digitise,

whether that's incorporating accountancy tools or new digital payment methods.

Through free guidance, helpful tools and personalise one-to-one mentoring,

Strive is empowering small business owners across the UK to succeed.

For more on how Strive UK could help your business, visit mastercard.com.com.

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My search for identity has felt more complex at times. I lost my parents when I was a teenager.

I was a working class woman who moved into the boardroom

with many public school educated men.

And after a lifetime of relationships with men,

I fell in love with a woman.

I was a straight mother of two who then became a gay parent.

There are of course those who throw on identity like a comfortable old sweater,

but then there are others who must locate and reveal their true self by a sometimes painful

and thorny process of elimination and discovery.

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