I love being creative and I use this to explain my colourful career path.As a youngster I wrote songs, poetry and made music to play at family ceilidhs, concerts and folk clubs. I spent my formative years at Dundee University studying medicine and partaking in a thriving folk music scene! Medical school allowed me to learn about people and how good communication can make all the difference in difficult circumstances. This study period included a year at the Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic college on the Isle of Skye. My passion for my culture and learning is strong.After graduating and finding my place in the medical world, I began to divide my time between the A&E 'shop floor' and creating things. I toured Europe extensively with my music, made a short film about mental health, played Burns suppers from Glasgow to Iraq and co-wrote/musically directed a poetry theatre show about Paisley's Mill Girls. These were an incredible few years, allowing me to combine my love for creating, learning and people.As I gradually began to spend more time in the creative side of my world, the gap for working with and assisting people was filled by Play for Progress(PfP). My co-founder @Alyson Frazier and I won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises and set up PfP, a charity that taps into the healing power of music, the arts, play, and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships which nourish, support, and amplify the voices of unaccompanied minor refugees and asylum-seekers. My experience with people makes my role as Head of Relationships a challenging and fulfilling post. My academic background means that my position as head of Education is one that I enjoy immensely- We just sent our first young person to University!To ensure I continued my link with my Scottish culture I co-founded The Association of Exiled Scots (TAoES) with @Ainsley Hamill. TAoES is the number one global provider for authentic Scottish Cultural Entertainment. Based in London, we teach Scottish music, language and culture via our Culture & Music School, as well as platforming Scottish Talent through performances, exhibitions and bespoke in-conversation events. We explore Gaelic and Scots Language through TAoES Productions in an entertaining and thought-provoking manner to widen the common usage of both. I am always looking to make connections. If you are a member of the Scottish Diaspora, work in the charity sector or are looking to make a career change and need some advice. Drop me a line.