She didn’t wait until she felt ready either.
From the outside, Pretty’s story can look like one of achievement.
Three businesses. Keynote speaker. TEDx stage. Community leader. Award-winning healthcare professional. PhD. Mum.
But that’s only half the story.
Behind those achievements have been failures, self-doubt, overwhelming periods, difficult decisions and times when Pretty has had to rebuild and begin again.
She didn’t achieve those things because she always felt confident enough to do them.
Often, she acted when she didn’t.
And that’s what shaped the idea at the heart of her work today.
Pretty doesn’t stand on stage and tell women that fear disappears, failure doesn’t hurt or that positive thinking solves everything.
She talks about what happens when you’re capable of more but your own mind starts giving you reasons to stay where you are.
Because she’s experienced that moment herself. Again and again.
Today, she combines those experiences with mental fitness to help other ambitious women understand what’s happening in that moment… and find the courage to act anyway.