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5 things I learned riding side saddle
5 things I learned riding side saddle
Like my bio says, I never quite grew out of the pony-mad stage. I’ve ridden since I was five and I’ve been riding side saddle for the last…
Gemma Teed
Mar 25
5 things I learned from living life as a solo, bus-dwelling, nomadic woman.
5 things I learned from living life as a solo, bus-dwelling, nomadic woman.
I’ve lived in a bus — as a single woman, travelling almost exclusively alone — for over three years. Here are 5 things I’ve learned.
fee plumley
Mar 28
5 Things I’ve Learned Managing A Youth Football Team.
5 Things I’ve Learned Managing A Youth Football Team.
How a rash decision in the pub one lunchtime made me friends, forced me to get fit, made me rage against the FA and means I play a small…
Jem Stone
Mar 25
5 Things I Learned from Running Away to Russia
5 Things I Learned from Running Away to Russia
Once, the Soviet Union burned darkly in the subconscious of every American man, woman and child. It was the evil empire, an ever-present…
Jacob Kiernan
Mar 21
5 things I learned doing an MBA
5 things I learned doing an MBA
I’m writing these reflections as I approach the end of a two-year Executive MBA. In some respects, doing so before I graduate seems…
George Walkley
Mar 18
5 Things I learned Working in Second-Hand Record Shops
5 Things I learned Working in Second-Hand Record Shops
From getting a part-time job emptying bins after school at long defunct Note For Note record shop in Walthamstow, to day-managing one of…
Martin Belam
Mar 15
I See Dead People. 5 Things I Learned From Being Bereaved
I See Dead People. 5 Things I Learned From Being Bereaved
Just under ten years ago, my dad was admitted to hospital. He’d been at work and suddenly lost his voice. Then he’d gone home and…
Alice Bell
Mar 14
5 Things I learned about life and work, working as a teenage radio DJ.
5 Things I learned about life and work, working as a teenage radio DJ.
I’ve just started reading ‘Sick In The Head’ by Hollywood filmmaker Judd Apatow. When he was fifteen Judd began working at his high school…
IanSanders
Mar 6
5 Things I Learned Working as a Short-Order Chef
5 Things I Learned Working as a Short-Order Chef
I was once in a workshop for senior managers at a major UK media company. Nobody really wanted to go and the workshop was flat as a pancake…
Matt Locke
Mar 4
5 things we learned… from The Story 2016
5 things we learned… from The Story 2016
The Story is a one-day conference about stories and storytelling held at Conway Hall in London each year. Nigel Smith, our Head of Content…
FutureLearn
Mar 3
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