Marshall Cavendish Author Profile

Name: Carole Ann Rice

Age: Pass!

Birthplace: London

First job: Saturday girl in a hairdressers in W13

Current job: Coach, author, broadcaster, wife, mother

Home: London

Car: Powder blue E type Jaguar convertible (in my dreams)

Favourite book: Other Voices, Other Rooms – Truman Capote

Favourite film: Midnight Cowboy/The Producers (original version)

Favourite music: Sinatra, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, ska, punk and 50s and 60s classics

Favourite gadget: Any corkscrew

Favourite website: www.realcoachingco.com

Best holiday: Hot, white beaches, sunloungers, sunsets, pool, books, chilled white wine, seafood restaurants

Career highlight: Having tea with Terence Stamp in Fortnams and Masons

Career lowlight: Filing flood-damaged invoices in a window-less room at a double-glazing company on a business park in Perivale.

Normal working day: 40 minute run, emails, see clients or coach them over phone, writing, networking or workshops, children, cooking, sofa

Downtime: Running, reading, hanging with the family, friends, meals out, entertaining

Best piece of advice: Apart from watch out for red socks in a white wash? I would say:
Be true to yourself. You are more than enough.