Business Fit Magazine January 2020 Issue 1 | Page 50
Interview
with our business circles, which take place every
other month, in eleven cities around the world.
This will grow in 2020 and we will have more
cities involved with some exciting new ventures
for this year. sales. I know it is a challenge nowadays to have
a magazine, but I am very committed to this part
of my vision. One of our main aims this year is to
increase our readership and our advertisers and
create business with purpose.
Relationship Capital is very
important to you, tell us why. Also we want to reach out to more entrepreneurs,
to help those who need to grow their business
and to inspire them to do so and encourage
them to greater things.
For me, Relational Capital is about our human
ability to relate to others with openness, trust
and joy. I love people and I like to relate to
people. It doesn’t matter where I am, in the past
five years I have proven to myself how wonderful
it is to find people who also have this relational
capital. We can achieve so much more with
laughter, joy and meaning and we can expand
more by supporting people who do not already
have the same qualities. For me it’s such a joy to
have this quality as it becomes much easier for
me to relate to people.
Over 80 years ago, scientists at Harvard began
tracking the health of 268 Harvard sophomores.
They hoped the lengthy study would reveal
clues to leading healthy and happy lives. What
they found was that close relationships, more
than money or fame, are what keeps people
happy throughout their lives and that embracing
community helps us live longer and be happier.
They also found that “loneliness kills”.
I believe we need to take care of our energy
and ourselves and not get stopped or blocked
by negative people. I feel we should surround
ourselves with people with positive perspectives
on life, who encourage us, respect us and
therefore lift us up. It doesn’t matter how short
or long that journey is together. Happiness is
about managing a balance in life, learning how
to be with the right people to be able to fulfil
our dreams and our duties towards our family,
our communities and the planet. My relational
capital has helped me to achieve all this.
How do you plan to grow
Business Fit Magazine in 2020?
We will be celebrating our fourth year of Business
Fit Magazine this year. We have a precious
magazine which we will continue to publish every
other month, hardcopy and online. We strive to
continue to bring informative, inspirational and
creative articles to our readers around the world.
I loved magazines in my youth and I worked for
almost 15 years on two magazines where I started
as a secretary, later becoming the director of
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We write about mindset, body, spirituality,
business with purpose, marketing, financial
freedom, travels, environment, and much more.
We have five main pillars of the magazine:
Business, Body, Mindset and Emotion;
Environment and Spirituality. We also have a
Business Fit Features section and cover other
subjects like Fashion, Travel, Recipes and Art.
presence and attention to our conversation. I
send her photos, I send her recorded messages
so she can hear my voice and of course to my
husband too. I am one of those lucky women
who has a loving partner who is also an amazing
father.
As you know my motto in life is Together is better
in family and in business.
We are always interested in hearing from new
contributors and receiving articles from those
who have written for us before, so if you have
an idea you would like to put to us for an article,
please get in touch with our editor, the contact
details are at the front of the magazine, we would
love to hear from you.
How do you combine business
and family?
This is always an interesting question for
professional women, who, like myself, are also
mothers. It is interesting because it appears
men are not asked the same question and yet
they too have families. So this question always
reminds me there is still disparity between
the genders. Why is this still the case? Women
continue to ask themselves, should I be a mother
or a professional woman? Some women are
actually not having children, so they don’t have to
make a choice. Why can’t you have both? I hope
for future generations this will change.
I believe that many around the world still find
it difficult to find that balance. Maybe like me,
they feel a need to be perfect in everything
they do and therefore spend a lot of time trying
to achieve this perfectionism. When we do not
manage to achieve it in all areas, we may feel
guilty or not good enough. This is what I am
working on at the moment in my life, to get more
balance inside of me because actually, I am more
than good enough and I am sure you are too.
For me balance is when I am with my daughter,
I am there 100 percent. When I am travelling, I
make sure to talk to her every day with a lot of
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