{"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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The Sleeping Man<\/a><\/h4>

June 26th, 2026<\/p>

\n\n\tIn the middle of a keynote, I spotted a man sleeping in the front row. Not nodding off but fully committed and unapologetically asleep.\n\nI spent the rest of that talk trying not to focus on him, which made me focus on him more, ignoring the hundre[...]<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"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><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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