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Finding Your Passion. Living Your Purpose.
At Passion and Purpose Retreats, we believe every woman carries a unique calling within her a passion waiting to be uncovered and a purpose ready to be lived. These episodes are a heartfelt invitation into the real, raw, and inspiring journeys of extraordinary women who have chosen to honour that calling.
Through honest conversations and shared experiences, you’ll gain insight into how these women have taken control of their careers, businesses, and lives. Many have navigated significant health challenges, relationship changes, and moments of uncertainty. Some have travelled the world in search of fulfilment, only to discover that their true passion and purpose were always within them.
Be informed, ignited, and inspired as they share their stories of courage, growth, and success. Drawing on the principles of our Award-Winning Career Development Programme, these episodes are designed to encourage reflection and empower you to reimagine what’s possible for your own career and life.
This is about taking control becoming more confident, ambitious, and intentional in how you grow, advance, and excel in a career that truly aligns with who you are. It’s about making your career work for you, not the other way around, and creating a meaningful work-life balance that nurtures your wellbeing, purpose, and joy.
Because when women live in alignment with their passion and purpose, they don’t just change their own lives they inspire others to do the same.
Finding Your Passion. Living Your Purpose.
With another chance at love, what could possibly go wrong?
Frances Mensah Williams CBE
In 2015 Frances’s acclaimed first novel From Pasta to Pigfoot was published by Jacaranda Books and selected by WH Smith Travel as one of the top 25 of its 100 Summer reads. Frances is also the author of the novel Imperfect Arrangements, published in 2020 and described by bestselling novelist Dorothy Koomson as ‘a brilliantly written novel’.
Frances is a passionate advocate for skills and capacity building in Africa. She leads training and talent management projects and delivers management coaching to an international client base. In the UK, she has developed coaching and employment programmes to support the careers of Black and ethnic minority employees and create inclusive workplaces.
Selected as one of the Top 20 Inspirational Women from the African Diaspora in Europe, Frances has received several commendations and awards for entrepreneurship and skills development in Africa and was presented with the 2017 Community Pioneer Award by the African Diaspora Awards.
Frances was awarded a CBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List for services to the African community in the UK and in Africa.
7 books later Frances shares her love for friends, life and writing. Hear about her latest new novel ' The Second Time We Met' hitting the top spot as the number one best selling book on Amazon!