Zoe Cunningham

"I get up at 7:30 am. I do 'morning pages' - three written pages of journaling (a concept from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron). Then ten minutes of meditation and a half-hour walk into the office."

"I'm too busy to check email or social media before work, which is great as I find that checking for updates does not set me up well for the day at all"

"I discovered Todoist through a 'lunch and learn' we did at Softwire where people explained their methods of tracking tasks. It's a fabulous app because it just works."

"I have a fledgling career as an actor and trying to fit both in means I work pretty much all the time, including evenings and weekends. I try not to send emails into the night"

"Once you get into management, it’s challenges all the way up!"

"I would love to live in a world where everyone, including the women themselves, expects exactly the same drive and ability from both female and male employees."

"If you can’t see someone who looks like you doing the job, then you don’t think it’s for you."

"My biggest learning around mentorship is that all of the drive and determination needs to come from the mentee. If you go to a mentor or coach expecting them to wave a magic wand and fix your life for you, it’s not going to happen."

"It looks very glamorous from the outside, but you’re just in some big room in a hotel with lots of boards so it really just feels like a school hall"

"The women’s tournament was much smaller than the main competition and I got lucky to get through the draw"

"You see it in all sports and particularly in those like snooker for example, when you’re about to win and all those thoughts start going through your head you actually play worse"

"It’s just like anything, until you have someone to show you how to play it you won’t pick it up"

"But I think backgammon is even more beneficial because it revolves around managing probability, risk and reward"