Deborah Meredith - Artisan:  a person who displays great dexterity and employs creative thinking and manual dexterity to produce their goods [sic]. (Wikipedia)

She's also described as versatile, tenacious, professional, dedicated, experienced, diverse, driven and courageous (or as having balls).

I'm Deborah.  A number of years ago I started my own business.  It called upon all of my expertise as a fomer Executive PA with 17 years experience at Senior Executive level in FTSE 50 companies within Cardiff and the City of London.

All was going very well and the Company I founded was regarded as a leader in its field until disaster struck - our 3 largest clients were late paying their invoices and the Company couldn't pay its salary costs for that month.  The business was therefore insolvent and I had no choice but to close it.  That was New Year's Eve 2008.

I lost everything - husband, home, son, not to mention the business, my confidence and the will to live.  I ended up living back with my parents at the ripe old age of 38 and I was bankrupt.

Fast forward a couple of years and I'm back, having spent far too long in the shadows licking my wounds.  I have a number of new skills to bring to the table and one heck of a lot of experience I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy but I'm more than happy to share it to help others avoid what I went through.