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As my ribs twanged with pain, drawing hard, my lungs desperately search for just a tiny bit more of the oxygen that was so finely laced in the air. With the wind piercing at the smallest bit of my cheek exposed and my toes stinging with numbness I tried with all my might to take just one more step. Just one more. It is in these extreme moments that you learn everything you need to know about yourself. 

 

A week earlier I had been sitting in a lovely warm English pub enjoying a long Friday work lunch, handing over responsibilities to my business partner. He looked at me like I was deranged. “I just don’t get it? How is this going to be a holiday? And why on earth would anyone want to put themselves through that to climb a mountain!?”  Oddly, I had never asked myself that question. In fact, it was a really good question. Why on earth was I going to take my first week off for years, from being a busy mum building a business, to put myself...

An exciting new social enterprise launched at Manchester United and West Ham Utd on the 17th September 2018

Goal 17 Founder, Fran Boorman, could be found roaming the streets of Manchester meeting with homeless people in the early hours of the morning on the 17th September. This was the beginning of a 36-hour launch event for an exciting new social enterprise that is predicted to generate £1m turnover in its first year. The trip also included meetings with senior management from Manchester United and West Ham United, homeless charities and ex-England Footballer, Paul Stewart.

Goal 17 is partnering with Premiership football clubs across the UK and aims to end youth homelessness by uniting vulnerable young people with corporate executive mentors. The enterprise will deliver an innovative corporate events package that empowers companies to get tangible value from their corporate social responsibility.

 

Through its partnership with the West Ham,...

 I was very honored to be invited to represent the 4.7 million UK small businesses at a government round table discussion about the Civil Society Strategy. Whilst it was an incredibly empowering day, it was also a stark reminder of attitudes towards small businesses and how we have a long road to travel together.

What was it all about?

Many organisation, the government included, are awakening to the importance of different stakeholders make a positive impact on society. In a world where technology has broadened but not deepened relationships the need to proactively engage in local communities has never been greater.  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport want to facilitate a strategy to create an environment where businesses, charities, youth organisations, social enterprises and citizens come together for the greater good of our society. At the meeting there were a range of these different stakeholders. We discussed the responsibility of...

Wow, what a week. I am completely overwhelmed an incredibly grateful to so many people for showing such amazing support for the launch of my book, Connection Marketing. The book has rocketed in sales to become a best seller in its two man categories and appears to be holding this position.

I find this so incredibly exciting, but not for me, for us. The book is all about seeing a change in our industry and moving forward together. Each person  buying the book is buying into being part of that change. I am so excited about more and more people joining the Connection Marketing Community so this becomes less and less about me and more about all of us together. Moving forward together.

Thank you so much once again to everyone for their support. Let this journey begin.

Fran xxx

If you would like to buy the book please go to: http://amzn.to/2EJt3F9

As we watch the Winter Olympics in awe this week let us not forget what we are really celebrating… we are celebrating ‘overnight successes’ that took lifetimes to build!

It is easy to feel that what creates success is an athlete crossing the finish line first, but this is just symbolic. What we are actually celebrating is thousands of little things that we never see. Success is not created in front of stadiums full of people, it is created when no one is watching.

I was incredibly lucky to experience this first-hand as a teenager when I found myself in a secondary school class with a bubbly, energetic girl called Chemmy Alcott. Chemmy went on to compete in four Winter Olympics and get some of the best results Great Britain has ever seen in skiing.

On our first day at school, Chemmy wasn’t hopelessly rearranging her new stationery like the rest of us, she was focused on doing some of those ‘little things’ that would...