03/11/2026
Did you know I’m weird?🤣
Tomorrow I head back down to Coventry for my third awards final in a month.
This time it’s for being Holly and Charlotte and it’s ran by the phenomenal Holly Matthews |Weird AF | The Happy Me Project and
Turns out I’m mega weird coz I’ve made the final in 3 categories.
The Unhinged and Unstoppable award
The Plot Twist Award
The Main Character Award
I know some people think it’s an odd thing to shout out about being weird, but if I wasn’t, I don’t think I could have done the things I have done.
I think you have to be a bit weird to risk everything and start a business.
I think it’s even weirder when you realise that you have no qualifications, no money and no support network and you still do it anyway.
Moving into research when you have no academic background and no clue what you are doing. Yep, totally weird.
Saying yes to everything and just hoping that you have enough about you to not let people down. Risky and very weird.
Weird is what I was called in school.
Bullies don’t like people with a voice and a heart.
They don’t like the people who stand up for others and for what’s right.
I always did, and I got bullied badly for it.
Yes, I probably was weird without realising it.
The thing is, I quite like being weird.
There is no-one else like me.
I don’t have competition because there is only one me.
Nobody has lived my life, nobody has my stories to tell, and nobody has what is in my head.
I will make the world a better place for the next generation.
My daughters will grow up knowing how to advocate for themselves and not get the same push back me and millions of other women have had.
Being different makes us stronger.
I mean, for goodness sake, I’m one woman working from a corner in a room in our house surrounded by my husbands stuff, boxes and goodness knows what else with a vision to create The Sleep Belt Check.
A national campaign that will eventually change how we treat sleep and ourselves.
I want prevention to become the norm rather than waiting for people to break before they seek help.
So if all that means I’m weird, I will take it.
Let’s just see how weird the judges think I am tomorrow. 🤣