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 50 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 51