With blonde hair and red boots to match her lipstick, Shonette Bason-Wood is a force of nature.
After raising four children as a single mother, she quit her teaching job to set up a motivational teaching company which quickly turned over up to £250,000 a year and employed eight staff.
But then the pandemic hit and turnover dropped by two thirds. My business went from thriving to literally full stop within a matter of five days from the first lockdown, she explains. I felt like everything I built - that baby that I had grown - had all gone and I did think about the end, I genuinely did. And I ve got four children who I absolutely adore, who are adults and that s what brought me back - and my dog as well.
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