Losing a loved one.

I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).

I was never a big risk taker. When I started my first businesses, I really had nothing to lose. I was sleeping on the floor. I had five roommates in a three-bedroom apartment. My car was a junker. I had absolutely nothing to lose when I started MicroSolutions, so it really was never a risk.

Not dying before my wife and kids.

I’ve seen it a lot, I’ve been it, and I’m not afraid of it! You can be a woman on the edge, but also be a soulful woman, a playful woman and a funny woman. You can be all those things at once.

I used to write my own plays. And I’ve always kept diaries, although not for the past five years. I just really enjoy writing and always had a desire to maybe do it in conjunction with directing, but didn’t have the confidence.

I felt very unhinged in my early 30s and kind of mentally not well. There was something very, very sobering about that time and letting go of people that weren’t very healthy for me. Unfortunately, a lot of that has been in relation to men, I suppose.

My mother. She raised four children pretty much on her own. My father was around, but always out at work.

I felt very unhinged in my early 30s and kind of mentally not well. There was something very, very sobering about that time and letting go of people that weren’t very healthy for me. Unfortunately, a lot of that has been in relation to men, I suppose.

My son's second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.