Journal · Franziska Iseli

‘Look I’m a girl and I’m also a boss!’ The girl boss movement has become a social media sensation generating nearly three million mentions on Instagram alone, including…

I feel a little bit light-headed and dizzy, maybe my brain is re-wiring or was it the red wine I didn’t drink all week? It’s day seven of…

Friendships  As the mountains fade into the distance, my tears slowly stop running down my cheeks. I’m sitting on a plane back to Australia via Kuala Lumpur to…

Don’t follow your passion! Nicholas has been a waiter for almost three decades and he so incredibly proud of his work. Seeing him in action at a Greek…

“Don’t hire your friends!” This is very common advice in the business world. Since I like being a bit of a rebel and proving things wrong (sometimes unsuccessfully),…

Sunday morning, my phone rang. It was an unknown number. Must be one of my overseas friends, I thought. It was my brother. He had to make one…

Did you know that a human being in modern society is exposed to over five thousand pieces of marketing every day? We live in a very cluttered world…

Isn’t it interesting how some words and expressions become fashionable for a period of time? It always makes me wonder how this occurs. One of the latest linguistic…

A few years ago I was having coffee with a friend who ran a successful business. He was on a high, riding the wave of success. A few…