The Italian Essence

I cannot believe that I am in my mid 50s and am suddenly in front of the camera all the time having my photo splashed all over my social media and articles. I used to HATE having my photo taken and in fact up until about 6 months ago, there are hardly any pictures of me at all in our family! One thing about dressing for photos on a regular basis is that I have had to have a really good look at my wardrobe and I soon realised that there is a lot that comes out time after time

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Last week I did a "soft launch" of my online course. This brought on all sorts of "imposter syndrome" issues as you can imagine! I was worried that it wouldn't look professional enough, that the platform it was on wasn't high tech enough, that I sounded stupid, etc, etc, etc - the list goes on! Then I took myself to task. After all, I am a 56 year old woman, trying to cope in a digital age, which quite frankly I didn't sign up for in 1964! So what if it isn't high tech - no