nicole calder

1. No one cares about your future as much as you do. Be your own advocate. 2. Team trainings are not enough – deliberate practice is a must. 3. Find what works for you – gym, pilates, swimming, boxing, yoga, tennis, etc. 4. Keep your name known. Look up ‘The Matthew Effect’. 5. Loyalty comes at a cost (literally, it’s called ‘the loyalty tax’) 6. No journey is linear. Popcorn pops at different times despite the same heat. 7. Intent. Intent. Intent.

in football. in sport. in general. this is a known fact, but do we know why? we’ve hypothesised many reasons – some of which include the cost of coaching licenses being too expensive, the lack of financial and job security, and the conflict between women having and raising children alongside a very demanding job. let me add another hypothesis – the systems aren’t designed for women to even consider coaching. i’m not talking about making coaching courses specific to co

This concludes our Europe trip. Seven weeks, six countries. There’s a lot we learnt which I’ve tried to capture in these blog posts. The main learning: less is more. I think we had a good balance of being busy, but not exhausted, and the latter end of our trip allowed us to relax so we actually felt refreshed coming home. Whereas the first three weeks had us moving around every few days, Greece only had two islands in 10 days, two of which were travel days. I would definite

Onto our last (and potentially our favourite) country, Greece! Our flight from Palermo to Athens was with Volotea which we again only paid for two checked bags at 20kgs. Our bags weighed 20.4 and 20.1kgs and they didn’t even bat an eyelid nor did they weigh our carry-on either. As an airline, they had a disclaimer when purchasing tickets that due to the situation in the Middle East, they might have to change the ticket prices to cover the cost of fuel, which they ended up nee

Time for the famous Amalfi Coast! Because we booked the train ticket last minute (literally), it cost us about $130pp to travel from Florence to Salerno (a four-hour train journey). I’m sure if you booked it in advance, you could save some money, but we weren’t sure how long the car return would take and/or what we’d be doing for food so opted for flexibility at an expense. When we arrived in Salerno, our Airbnb host recommended we pay for a private transfer to the accommodat