Goreti

I spent fifteen years in premium estate agency, most recently with Fine & Country. The brochures make it sound like champagne and kitchen islands. The reality is that expensive houses are often sold because something has ended. A divorce. A death. A downsize after forty years, with a garage nobody has sorted since 2009. I have sat at many kitchen tables with people making enormous decisions during some of the most difficult months of their lives.  That work taught me how to listen properly. How to read a room. How to remain calm when someone else is overwhelmed. How to handle difficult conversations, competing priorities and the endless practical details that multiply when life is already complicated. Most importantly, I learned that people don't need advice as often as we think. They need someone beside them who isn't flinching. Someone who can sit through the difficult bit, help make sense of what needs to be done, and then go for a coffee afterwards and perhaps talk about something else entirely. But I am more than the job I have done. I raised my son as a single parent and now have the privilege of watching him make his own way in the world. Life has taught me about responsibility, worry, resilience, letting go and finding your feet again. I have a long-standing interest in psychology, personal growth and wellbeing, including plant-based nutrition and the changing landscape of my body through perimenopause and hopefully beyond. Not as someone claiming to have all the answers, but as someone who is curious, learns, questions and pays attention. I have also always been the person people come to for a wise word, a different perspective or simply someone who will listen without immediately trying to fix them. And I know when the most useful thing I can do is nothing at all, except sit beside someone and listen. That is what I bring to this work: experience, perspective, practical capability and a genuinely interested human being beside you when something feels harder to face alone.