Polly Arrowsmith is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom.
I am a qualified accountant, whose business turned over £60m in 15 years.
I am in three start-ups so I am business-focused and provide business advice.
My areas of knowledge are:
My professional areas of knowledge are:
Accountancy
Audit
Running a business
Marketing
Economics
Inflation
Investment
High Court justice
Banking
Short term thinking in business
Management
Culture, values
Business planning
Finance
Personal finance
Appendices
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My personal areas of knowledge are:
Shopping
Getting great deals at supermarkets
Being a woman in IT
Sexism
Sexual assault
Addiction- alcoholism and other substance abuse
My ex-partner's mental health- depression developed paranoid schizophrenia, and I was the center of an 18-month manic episode.
Long term sick
Having a chronic lung condition and Covid
Charity- I run my own small project
Teaching
Fashion
Environment
Racism in the UK
Menopause
Relationships
Sami, racism in Finland, history of Sami (my great grandparents were part of a human circus in the 1920s), prejudice
Abuse- sexual ( my mum and her siblings) neglect, physical
Coercive control
Being deaf until I was 5
Moving education system three times, from Wales, Scotland to England
Moving about as a child
Suicide
Resilience
Ecology
