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Jennie Lightbourne comes from a line of pharmacists. Despite strong urging from her father and grandfather, she wasn’t drawn to the profession. Both were pharmacists who owned their own pharmacies in Ireland. Mrs Lightbourne took a different path. “I...

Thirteen years ago Richard Harrison was earning a lot of money as a systems analyst in London. It wasn’t enough. He quit his job with one of the world’s pharmaceutical giants and bought a ticket for South Korea. His plan was to spend a year there he...

Valentina Holland isn’t ashamed to call herself a dance fitness junkie. She got hooked on Jazzercise classes in the US more than 20 years ago while trying to get into shape after years of smoking. She moved to the Island and found there were only a...

A year ago Amy Da Ponte felt overweight, unfit and stuck in life. She was always tired and struggled to motivate herself, even when it came to individual workout sessions with a personal trainer. Then she tried running. Since then she’s dropped...

A couple hit hard by cancer are giving back to the community that helped them through their illnesses. Jenna Martin, 41, spent eight months battling ovarian cancer. Her 36-year-old husband John was diagnosed with a brain tumour only two days after...

Tali Gabai-Maiato will never forget the day her life changed forever. It was December 28, 2013 when she got the call her younger sister Kaelenne had committed suicide. She was completely shocked. “Kaelenne was amazing, funny, outgoing and outspoke...

If there is one thing Fajr Bashir knows, it’s how to get people moving. The 29-year-old is a fitness instructor and an aspiring singer. “With fitness training you have to know how to motivate people to feel enthusiastic and keep moving,” she said. “...

Alexis Bean reached a crossroads somewhere near the end of her university years. She’d excelled in track and field but decided to turn in her sneakers to focus on a career in the corporate world. “I was sitting in my university counsellor’s offic...

Lorrie Peniston has a master’s degree in happiness. It’s not something she pulled out of thin air — she earned it from the University of Pennsylvania. Technically, it’s a master’s of applied positive psychology; the scientific study of the strengths ...

What woman wouldn’t want to drop three dress sizes in a flash? Tannel Lambe knows the secret. It’s not a diet, but a garment called the Ardyss Body Magic Shaper. It’s an all-over body sleeve that helps to tuck in the stomach, pull up the bum and st...