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    #INFLUENCERDRIVE. Well, it’s the series with the biggest hits, so far. Which means, we are picking the biggest hitters, right? And one cannot really get much higher an achiever than an all-round polymath: She’s clever, intuitive, insightful, glamorous, ambitious and fascinating. Queen of Chelsea herself, Christel Holst-Sande Cowdrey. We were lucky enough to be able to pick the lady’s brains on a number of life enhancing topics. Here we go!           1: Plug your latest project(s). What are you up to and when can we see/hear about it etc? In February 2023, my second book, How to Fire Your Husband in Easy Steps (A Miraculous Divorce)   will be launched. Alongside, will be the book of steps and an online course. My first book Imagine A Healthy You went to international bestseller status, which was so exciting (and mind boggling), but then, the purpose of writing a book is to inspire and maybe help another in succeeding ...

We have been paying attention to Women in industries. You should, too. So, this week: let me introduce ANNABEL SCHOFIELD.  Ms Schofield kindly sat down and agreed to collaborate on, amidst her busy schedule.  You are about to read about Annabel's inspirational journey: past, present and future. Beautiful, all of it!  Here. We. GO!.. 1: Plug your latest project(s). What are you up to and when can we see/hear about it etc?  I am in the pre-pre production stages of my first feature film as producer. It’s a script called Schwinn Varsity and I’ve been working on it since 2017. It’s a coming of age, road-trip comedy which will shoot early next year in Los Angeles. Hopefully will be completely finished by autumn 2023.  Set in the summer of 1977, this not-quite coming-of-age comedy centers on two 14-year-old boys who undertake an epic, two-day bicycle trek across suburban St. Louis, finding adventure and peril along the way. Their goal? A legendary motherlode of adult ...

Here we go, as part of the influencer series on inspirational women.  DRUSILLA HARRIS: A name to watch. A talent to observe. A creative drive to learn from!  1:   Musician, composer, dancer, choreographer, teacher: rank those in order of enjoyment, priority and fulfilment. Also, how does one intersect with and drive the other?    The musician and the dancer developed together as a child. My parents were musicians and the whole family had to practice every day. I had weekly dance lessons - ballet from 3 and then tap and jazz as a teen- but I also used to find music to play and dance to as my number one leisure activity from as young as 5, when my Grandma gave me and my younger sister our first tiny little transistor radios.  We would get up early, go down to the basement, find the same station on each radio so it was louder and felt fuller, and dance away together before anyone else was up. We would always dress up for this. Basically, I danced every d...