XMAS ISSUE – Stellar Woman Magazine

The Holiday Reset Journal – Cristal Johnston

23Dec

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Christmas Issue, ISSUE 13, Issue One 2, Mind & Body, Wellness

The Holiday Reset Journal – Cristal Johnston

The Holiday Reset Journal is your simple, supportive companion to help you stay grounded, energized, and in control through the busiest season of the year. Inside, you’ll find daily prompts, reflection questions, hydration + habit trackers, and simple mindset shifts that make navigating holiday stress and food choices feel easier and more intentional. This journal helps you stay connected to your goals, listen to your body, and build momentum one small win at a time - without perfection, pressure, or restriction. It’s designed to keep you focused, confident, and consistent so you step into the New Year feeling lighter, clearer, and proud of yourself. A perfect starting point for anyone wanting healthier habits, better blood sugar balance, and a calmer, more joyful holiday s...

Building Equity, Leadership, and Belonging – Dr Joanna Abeyie MBE

23Dec

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Christmas Issue, Cover Story, ISSUE 13, Thriving

Building Equity, Leadership, and Belonging – Dr Joanna Abeyie MBE

Stellar Woman Magazine | Christmas Issue: Radiance Reborn Christmas is a season of reflection. It invites pause, honesty, and renewal. For Stellar Woman Magazine, this Christmas issue is shaped around Radiance Reborn. Not radiance as performance, but radiance as renewal. The kind that emerges when women continue to lead, question, and rebuild themselves and their work, even when the journey has been demanding. Dr Joanna Abeyie is a leader shaped by education, advocacy, and lived experience. Her work sits at the intersection of inclusion, leadership development, and social impact. In this conversation with Stellar Woman Magazine, she speaks candidly about her journey, the systems that shaped her, and why equity must be intentional rather than performative. QN. WHO IS DR JOANNA ...

23Dec

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Mind & Body

Radiance Reborn in Business: Why Brand Clarity Must Lead in Uncertain Times

In today’s volatile business environment, many coaches, consultancies, and professional service providers are reacting rather than leading. Offers change every few months.Avatars shift with market trends.Messaging adapts to whatever appears to convert. What is often labelled as “agility” is misalignment driven by fear. The cost of this is not innovation -it is confusion. Ask yourself: Am I adapting to my market, or am I losing myself in the noise? When Survival Thinking Replaces Brand Leadership Periods of uncertainty trigger survival behaviour. In business, this often looks like: Constantly reshaping offers Chasing new audiences Diluting expertise to remain relevant Abandoning long-term vision for short-term traction The result? Prospects struggle to u...

23Dec

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Christmas Issue, Cover Story, ISSUE 13

Chief Editor’s Note – Radiance Reborn

Radiance is often mistaken for something loud, youthful, or effortless. However, the women in this issue remind us that true radiance is forged over time. It is shaped through service, loss, courage, restraint, and compassion. It is not rushed. It is earned, sustained, and shared. In this Radiance Reborn issue, we feature three women whose lives illuminate what it truly means to lead from within. Dr. Joanna Abeyie shows us that leadership rooted in equity is not performative, it is lived. Through education, inclusion, and intentional action, she reminds us that leadership is not about status, but responsibility, and that creating belonging is daily work. Her radiance lies in her clarity of purpose and her refusal to accept systems that leave voices unseen. Hon. Victoria Sek...

Identity Is the Greatest Gift You Can Give Yourself

22Dec

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Cover Story, ISSUE 13

Identity Is the Greatest Gift You Can Give Yourself

Radiance Reborn There is a moment many women reach that is rarely spoken about openly. It is not a dramatic breakdown, nor a visible failure. From the outside, life appears to be moving forward. Responsibilities are met. Roles are fulfilled. She is doing what needs to be done. Yet internally, something feels profoundly disconnected. She feels lost not because she lacks direction, but because she no longer recognises herself in the life she is living. This is the quiet identity loss many women experience. During the Christmas season when the world speaks of light, hope, and renewal that absence can feel even louder. When Identity Slowly Erodes Identity is rarely lost all at once.It erodes gently, through years of adaptation. A woman becomes what is required of her: ...

Radiance Reborn: A Life of Service, Focus, and Humanity – Hon. Victoria Sekitoleko

21Dec

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Cover Story, ISSUE 13, Leadership

Radiance Reborn: A Life of Service, Focus, and Humanity – Hon. Victoria Sekitoleko

This Christmas issue of Stellar Woman Magazine invites reflection. In this conversation, Hon. Victoria speaks openly about identity, leadership, loss, purpose, and the quiet wisdom that comes with time. What follows is her story, in her own words. WHO IS HON. VICTORIA ? “Thank you very much. It is really a pleasure to be here. I am happy that as we talk now, I am not only a mother, I am a grandmother. But I think the role I have learned to enjoy most is being a foster mother. It is interesting how we all love that mother figure wherever we are. One of my greatest joys, which I cannot put in my CV, is being a foster mother. Besides that, the fact that I am retired but extremely busy is something I would like to share with others. Because if you want to know the most difficult part ...

Radiance Reborn: The Rebirth of Inner Authority – Divya Parekh

21Dec

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Celebration, Christmas Issue, ISSUE 13, Issue One 1

Radiance Reborn: The Rebirth of Inner Authority – Divya Parekh

Every December, the world glows. Lights appear on rooftops, trees sparkle, and for a few weeks, everything feels brighter. But beneath the shimmer, something quieter stirs. This is the season when the light we see around us asks us to remember the light within us. Most of us don’t realize how often we dim it. We shine for our teams, our families, our clients, our causes, until the very thing that once felt alive feels heavy. We spend so much time giving light that we forget what it feels like to be lit from within. Christmas, at its core, is about rebirth, not of a new identity, but of the truth that’s been there all along. The light never left; it only waited for us to stop running long enough to notice. This is the invitation to Radiance Reborn. It isn’t about fixing what’s bro...

Leading With Compassion, Equity, and Courage – Jessica P. Hansen, MSW

21Dec

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Celebration, Christmas Issue, Cover Story, ISSUE 13, Thriving

Leading With Compassion, Equity, and Courage – Jessica P. Hansen, MSW

For over two decades, Jessica P. Hansen has worked at the intersection of humanity’s deepest needs and its highest potential. From refugee camps and rural villages to global nonprofits and corporate leadership spaces, her work has centered on dignity, protection, and access. In this conversation with Stellar Woman Magazine, Jessica reflects on who she is, what shaped her, and why compassion remains at the core of everything she does. WHO IS JESSICA HANSEN?“That is such a huge question,” Jessica says. “What comes up for me immediately is a quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He talks about having two purposes in life. One is to understand more about the world today than you did yesterday, and the other is to ease the suffering of others.” She explains that if she had to capture her life in a f...

Reborn on the Run: How I Became a More Optimistic, Happier Runner

21Dec

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ISSUE 13, Issue One 1, Wellness

Reborn on the Run: How I Became a More Optimistic, Happier Runner

Christina Collison shares how she has let go of fear, embraced joy, and rediscovered herself with every mile. Running didn’t just change my body – it has transformed my mindset. Running is one of my favourite activities. It brings me true happiness, a freedom I don’t feel anywhere else. The mental health benefits are endless. When I run, my busy mind quietens, my body feels alive, and my confidence lifts. On a good run, I feel unstoppable. On a tough run, I find resilience I didn’t know I had. Every time I push through the moments I want to quit, I’m reminded that we all have far more strength than we give ourselves credit for. Running has taught me one of life’s greatest lessons: keep going – the reward is worth it. In the past two years, running hasn’t just strengthened my mind...

Every Day and Season Are New for You – by Ann Justi

21Dec

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ISSUE 13, Issue One 2, Thriving

Every Day and Season Are New for You – by Ann Justi

Every year there is a new year and that gives way to reflect on the past year and deciding on how we want to spend the new year, like new year resolutions. The intention is to reflect on the ending of one year and plan for the new year. A chance to begin again reigniting your passions, dreams with personal rebirth and reinvention. Most plan big and fall short of the annual delivery. It does not have to be that way. Every day is a new day. A chance to take a step towards what you want in the new year and learn from the past year. Take inventory every season not just at the end of the year. Adjust as you go. Consistency and vision are key. Don’t let that you may not have had the year go like you wanted it to be. Small steps even if you are discovering what you want to do or achieve can ha...

Reflect. Reset. Renew – Dr. Catherine Jackson

21Dec

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ISSUE 13, Issue One 2, Wellness

Reflect. Reset. Renew – Dr. Catherine Jackson

2025 has been one heck of a year with many ups but far more downs. Personally and professionally I had goals that while started, were not completed. Things like reading a certain number of books this year and on the professional side creating more products and services to serve more people, slowly faded more as the year went on. Sure I started the year out strong. Like many of us do, I got and set up my planner for success. I am a planner girl! Not the digital kind, while there’s nothing wrong with it and if it works for you that’s great but I am an old school paper and pencil planner girl. I look forward to selecting and creating my planner every year and creatively setting up every page in a way that keeps me engaged in the planner month after month, week after week and day after day. Pa...

21Dec

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ISSUE 13, Issue One 1, Thriving, Wellness

My Festive Reset- Monica Bradley

Here’s how Monica Bradley, Founder of MB Associates, plans to use the festive season to recharge and reawaken her goals. It’s the same every year. Christmas is portrayed as a season of joy and togetherness – and this can be true. But it can also be a time when we’re most depleted after a busy year. As a business owner, I know this only too well. After 12 months of managing the needs of clients, colleagues, family and friends, the festive season arrives. Instead of resting, I find myself racing around ensuring I have everything I need for festive gatherings at my home. As the managing director of MB Associates, a thriving mortgage brokers in Surrey, I spend most of the year with a hectic schedule. My role entails helping clients, managing my team, leading the business, attending event...

Radiance Reborn: Reinventing Ourselves Through Perimenopause – Theresa Russell’s

21Dec

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Celebration, Christmas Issue, ISSUE 13, Issue One 2

Radiance Reborn: Reinventing Ourselves Through Perimenopause – Theresa Russell’s

There is a moment in midlife when everything shifts. Our bodies change, our emotions rise and fall, and the roles we’ve carried for decades begin to evolve. Perimenopause sweeps in like a surprise plot twist — uncomfortable, unpredictable, and often misunderstood. But what if this transition isn’t a decline… but an awakening? Radiance Reborn is the celebration of this powerful turning point. It is the truth that midlife is not the end of anything — it’s the rebirth of everything. As the holiday season arrives — with its glow, reflection, and promise of renewal — we are reminded that light always returns. Christmas isn’t just about traditions and gift-giving; it symbolizes hope, joy, and miracles born in the quietest moments. Just like the twinkle of festive lights brightening the dar...