Jessica appeared to work two weeks ago at 9:06 am, a few minutes late. 

She was heavily made-up: bright lipstick, curled eyebrows, new nail paint, mascara, The Full Monty. She was smiley, unusually bouncy and chirpy.

I was called to an emergency a few months ago. This patient I’ll call James had a severe groin infection and it was a sight for sore eyes. Smelly pus was pouring out from his groin onto a makeshift dressing he had used to patch up the gaping hole. And he was in excruciating pain.

It was the year I lost my sister, had a rebound of epilepsy, and lost my job. 

I walked out of my job. 

But it wasn’t for the reasons you might expect. 

I worked with the CEO of a small independent chain of health shops scattered across towns in the Southwest of England.

In these times, we've become obsessed with learning what we think we don’t know. Self-help. Coaching. Continuous Professional Development. Training. Downloading popular podcasts. Books. We are all always striving to be better, learn better, become more successful, whatever that means.

The majesty of these galloping black and white horses symbolises the duality of nature, with their contrasting colours representing opposite forces in perfect balance, similar to life – and suggests how we should embrace our differences with grace.

How do you deal with confrontation? This article examines the two extremes of confrontation: Cowardice and Hypocrisy and suggests the correct way to confront is somewhere dynamically in the middle.

We always think we have more to learn, more to offer, people to look up to, but sometimes we forget that there are people behind us, looking up to us, waiting to jump into our footsteps, just waiting for us to give them a little helping hand…

Many of us are caught between doing our duty and breaking free to follow our passion. This article discusses the realities of both and give thoughts on how to do one without destroying the other.

Life is all about perception. In this piece, I share some powerful stories that inspired me to change my perception on life – the colour of my glasses.

We all have a dark side that we wrestle with that threatens to destroy all that we have taken months, or in some cases, years, to build. This article highlights the fact that everyone struggles with a monster within us, and gives 6 ways we can defeat daily the self-sabotaging habits that threaten to derail us or our ambitions.

All of us have dreams. No matter where we’re from. This article is not an advert for the famous pain-killing gel we see on tv and in media.

Legacy is a strange word. It’s had so many definitions and has been used in so many contexts, that it’s almost lost its original meaning.

Steven N. Adjei is a British-Ghanaian author, poet, healthcare consultant, entrepreneur, and pharmacist. He is the founding partner of BlueCloud Health (part of the Emerald Group), an advisory and consulting firm with offices in London, Dubai, and Delhi with clients all over the world.

15 March 2013. I remember it well. It was 9.30 pm. I was alone at home, upstairs, with the lights turned off. The company I had started, BlueCloud Health, was dead in the water. After over 150 rejections, I felt worthless, tired, and just plain burnt out.

Holly Bradshaw had finally done it. After 9 major global championships, the 29-year-old British Olympian had finally done it, winning an Olympic bronze medal, Britain’s first, in the pole vault in Tokyo 2020.

Diversity. It’s all over the news, media, and socials. Inclusion. Diversity. Equity. Racial Harmony. These are now universal buzzwords. But despite this, we still live in a very tense environment where demonstrations on race, sexuality, gender are on the rise.