Fun Friday: The influencing moment

The business channel frequently does “Fun Friday” posts that you can see all over the channel. Last Friday I participated, but forgot to tag it as a Fun Friday post because I was busy doing blog off stuff.

This week, the question is: your business epiphany – what one moment influenced your career or business more than any other?

I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to figure this out. Finding just ONE moment is difficult, and to add to that, I’ve changed careers slightly. If I were to tell you what influenced my PR career, it would definitely be meeting a woman who did PR and spent time telling me about her job, and encouraging me to go and play in the world of PR.

If I had to choose the one moment that influenced my current career, I think it would have to be sitting down and talking to my friend Lisa about the English Civil War.

Somehow, and I can’t remember how at the moment, we got onto the topic of my life. and what was bothering me at the time (and that’s probably how we got on the topic of my life), and Lisa started to explain the concept of the Salonnieres to me.

She’s reading this book called the English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Whitchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. It discusses these women, who were, essentially, the connectors. The women who had a large network, brought people together and connected the dots for each other.

Lucy Hay is the one that Lisa is particularly referencing me to. The book describes her as:

Lucy Hay was England’s salonniere, a beautiful woman who enjoyed politics, intrigue, plots but also intellectual games, poetry, love affairs, (intellectual and probably occasionally physical, fashion, clothes and admiration.

The full explanation is here. See, it’s hard to pick just one moment! Think about it – what would your moment be?