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Dream on Dreamer

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Having lived both here in the UK and overseas in Canada and the United States of UhMerrCa, I think it’s fair to say that over here, we’re pretty much a nation of pessimists. That’s a huge sweeping statement, I know, but for the most part, it’s a fair one. We haven’t been sold the American dream. We’ve been sold the ‘get your head down and get on with it’ reality. Oh sure, we’re allowed to dream, just not too big. I feel encouraging people to have goals and strive to achieve is important, but what if someone’s dream has no chance of becoming a reality? Is it ever appropriate to tell someone to give up on it?

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The Right to Choose

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Being that it was Mother’s Day yesterday, I got to thinking. I watched an episode of The Good Wife recently in which a young attorney left the firm because she was getting married and wanted to have a family. This caused shock among the more senior female members of the firm. You don’t have to give this up in order to have a family, they said, with strong undertones of how much she’d set the women’s movement back by making this decision. ‘But I want to be a wife and mother,’ was her reply. It made me think how, for all the advances we’ve made which allow us to have choices, this one is now somewhat frowned upon.

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Introducing Spikes & Heels

Monday, March 12th, 2012

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ve probably noticed me alluding to a little project I’ve been working on for the past few months. Finally, I am ready to reveal it! Today sees the launch of Spikes and Heels, my new fitness site for badass women. I’m really excited about it and I hope you all will be too.

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Work in Progress

Friday, March 9th, 2012

I came across the picture on the left recently, of me after I finished my first half marathon in October 2010. That look on my face is my ‘I can’t quite believe I just did that’ face. The pic on the right is from a shoot I did for Nike a couple of weeks ago. I put the two shots side by side and it was quite literally right there in front of me how far I’ve come. Running has been the propeller component that kick started this particular journey in my life, but it’s become about so much more than the running.

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Bangs Meets Graffiti Life

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

I am lucky enough to be offered a lot of things through this blog, but none have excited me as much as the offer of participating in a private graffiti workshop. When the kind peeps over at Graffiti Life asked if I’d like to do it, my inner b girl body popped and did a windmill. Being somewhat obsessed with the early years of hip hop and films such as Wild Style and Beat Street, becoming a master graffiti artist has been somewhat of a childhood dream of mine. And the workshop did not disappoint.

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Running with Friends

Monday, March 5th, 2012

This past weekend I very randomly ended up in Paris running the half marathon. When my good friend Candie text me last minute asking if I’d like to go, I figured hey, cheering my friend on in a race in Paris – what better way to spend a Sunday? During our journey over, we discovered there was a spare race place going, so, knowing how Candie gets nervous before races, I offered to pace her through. It would be my second time running the Paris Half Marathon, last year I ran it with my first gang of Team Bangs on the Run girls. This time around, those 13 miles taught me a lot.

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The Art of Hating

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

I met up with two of my blog buddies, Sarah Akwisombe and Dewbien last week. We meet to have a bit of a round table, exchange ideas and the like and a number of interesting topics came up. One of which was about ‘hating’. Funny how the idea of simple jealousy has snowballed to such a heavy-laden word as ‘hate’, but alas, that’s where we find ourselves. As we all know, the internet has brought this particular trait out strongly in some. What we found ourselves discussing at this lunch was how to recognise and control it in ourselves.

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Social Media and The Numbers Game

Monday, February 13th, 2012

You’d be hard pushed to find someone these days who isn’t on some sort of social network. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram…the list goes on. People use them for all sorts of different reasons but more and more often the connections made on these networks can lead to work or real life connections that matter. What’s funny is that even as adults, these things can become a popularity contest. Are we forgetting the real life rule that it’s not how many people you know, it’s who you know?

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How to Start Over

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

We’ve all been there, had that stuck-in-a-rut feeling and asked ourselves ‘is this it? Is this life?’ I read a postcard on Post Secret the other day that read: ‘Every single day that I’m trapped in the life I’ve made for myself, I hate it more and more. I’m almost 50 and I want to leave and start over alone.’ To that guy I say, do it. Yeah yeah, sure, I hear your ‘But Bangs! It’s not that easy!’ and I raise you a ‘you couldn’t pay me enough money to live in that kind of misery.’ I’m 30, I’ve started over many times and I’m oh so glad I did. Lord only knows what kind of madness I’d be living in now if I didn’t. So, if you’re teetering on a ledge, wishing you could change it all, here’s some handy lessons I’ve learned:

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Make it Count

Monday, February 6th, 2012

How are you gonna #makeitcount this year?

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