{"id":155,"date":"2015-09-28T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2015-10-01T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:08:11","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/preethinair.com\/site\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Speaking<\/a><\/div>

Speaking in Parliament<\/a><\/h4>

October 25th, 2025<\/p>

I had the privilege of speaking in Parliament alongside remarkable women whose journeys continue to reshape what leadership looks like.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMy message: at any point in your journey, you can decide to rewrite your story. You are never finished beco[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Patterns<\/a><\/div>

Patterns In Our Lives<\/a><\/h4>

July 27th, 2025<\/p>

\nFrom Unravelling - My thoughts on patterns in our lives:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEverything in life has a pattern - our own lives are filled with patterns.Patterns give us a feeling of familiarity and safety, even when they are wrong for us.\n\n\n\nPerhaps we repeat the[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Unravelling<\/a><\/div>

Unravelling Shortlisted as Indendependent Book of the Year!<\/a><\/h4>

March 11th, 2025<\/p>

Unravelling Shortlisted as Independent Book of the Year!\n\n\tNo blonde alter-ego publicist this time\u2014just me, feeling incredibly proud (for so many reasons) to share that Unravelling has been shortlisted for The UK Selfie Book Awards 2025 for Best Inde[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Good<\/a><\/div>

Good thing, bad thing, we don't know...<\/a><\/h4>

September 6th, 2024<\/p>

\n\n\n\n\n21 days to launch and behind the glossy photo things have been going wrong. The first advance copies of Unravelling arrived and whilst checking through them, I found a book with the first seven pages missing. You couldn\u2019t make this up\u2026\n\n\n\nTwenty[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\""Your<\/a><\/div>

\"Your heart is broken, long before it's broken.\"<\/a><\/h4>

August 26th, 2024<\/p>

\"Your heart is broken, long before it's broken.\"\n\n\t\"Your heart is broken, long before it's broken.\" I wanted to explore how emotional wounds begin long before the cause of the actual wounds take place. That, sometimes, we are in anticipation of this [...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Unravelling<\/a><\/div>

Unravelling is here...<\/a><\/h4>

August 16th, 2024<\/p>

\n\n\n\n\nUnravelling is here...\n\n🚀 A double life, a blonde alter-ego, signing a three-book deal, blonde alter-ego being shortlisted as publicist of the year! Turning down a fourth book deal to do this myself as myself. The first copies of Unravel[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Doors<\/a><\/div>

Doors Can Be Knocked Down ....<\/a><\/h4>

August 7th, 2024<\/p>

\r\n\r\n\r\nI spoke at Amazon yesterday. Sharing my story of rejection, putting on a suit and pretending to go to work, the book deal I gave myself, my blonde alter-ego alias, signing a \"real\" 3 book deal with HarperCollins, booking a theatre and putting o[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"A<\/a><\/div>

A double life, a blonde alter-ego, and a three-book deal. Sharing my story for South Asian Heritage Month #freetobeme<\/a><\/h4>

July 18th, 2024<\/p>

\nMy journey:\n\n\n\n* As a kid, desperate to be blonde, I shaved off my black bushy eyebrows, coloured them in with a yellow marker, and went to school. Miss Davies, my teacher, was horrified and told me that I would go far in life by just being myself. [...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"South<\/a><\/div>

South Asian History Month<\/a><\/h4>

June 18th, 2024<\/p>

\n\n\n\n\nLoving this year\u2019s South Asian Heritage Month theme, \u2018Free to Be Me\u2019. The irony isn\u2019t lost on me, given my own journey of setting up a double life and creating a blonde alter-ego alias publicist to follow my dreams.\n\n\n\n- My first novel was rejec[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"It's<\/a><\/div>

It's Never Too Late....<\/a><\/h4>

March 29th, 2024<\/p>

It was my midlife crisis... Having never acted before (not even at school), I booked a theatre in Covent Garden, rehearsed for 18 months, and put on a one woman show playing all 17 parts. I did this mostly to get over the fear that had secretly crept[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Following<\/a><\/div>

Following The Thread<\/a><\/h4>

March 21st, 2024<\/p>

Yesterday, I asked\u00a0 myself why I continue to do things that make no sense to anyone else but me. I love it when questions that are posed by myself are answered by the universe. It answered the question this morning, via a poem by William Stafford:\n\nT[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"New<\/a><\/div>

New Story - New Life<\/a><\/h4>

January 4th, 2024<\/p>

\n\n\n\n\u00a0\nI was jobless, putting on a suit and pretending to go to work every day. That suit routine, I\u2019m ashamed to say lasted around 9 months or so until one day, I took out a piece of paper and wrote down my goals. They were as follows:\n\nBestselling a[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Just<\/a><\/div>

Just Begin<\/a><\/h4>

March 8th, 2023<\/p>

\n\n\n\n\nJUST BEGIN\n\n\nIf you have a book, a project an idea for a business but are procrastinating\u2026 👉 Just begin. Beginning is an act of rebellion. Sometimes, just against your small self that keeps telling you that you can't. Then, just keep goi[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"How<\/a><\/div>

How to keep going when all you want to do is give up !<\/a><\/h4>

October 10th, 2022<\/p>

6 years ago, I wrote a one woman show called Sari: The whole Five Yards about a 60-year-old woman who tells the truth for the very first time and in doing so, her life unravels. I was, at that point, safely ensconced in my comfort zone unaware how my[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Rejection<\/a><\/div>

Rejection - Endings or Beginnings?<\/a><\/h4>

June 24th, 2022<\/p>

My first novel was rejected by over twenty publishers. This coincided with me being made redundant from the management consultancy where I worked and getting\u00a0unceremoniously dumped. Unable at the time to deal with the shame of rejection, every day, I[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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