There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.