I first met Louise in 2019 while completing my final-year dissertation, which explored the barriers elite athletes face when building themselves as personal brands. At the time, she had just moved to Los Angeles to launch her boutique training facility in Hollywood, and I remember being in awe of her bravery - choosing entrepreneurship in a foreign country when London wasn’t ready for her vision. Writing this feature years later, her journey resonates so deeply. At 19, during

Bessie Coleman never set out to be a trailblazer, but history made her one anyway. Born in 1892 in Texas to an African American mother and a Native American father, Coleman grew up during the Jim Crow era, in a society structured to exclude her on the basis of both race and gender. Discrimination and segregation were not abstract concepts; they shaped the reality of her everyday life from an early age. In 1915, Coleman moved from Texas to Chicago, joining the Great Migration

When Dr. Nike Folayan MBE talks about her childhood, she doesn’t begin with titles, accolades, or the corridors of influence she now frequently walks. She begins with service. As a pioneering engineer who “saves lives”, her career journey has been shaped by variety, curiosity and resilience. A Childhood of Curiosity Born to Nigerian parents in London, Dr. Nike says she grew up in a home “that really valued giving back.” Her father, a mechanical engineer, encouraged curiosity