facepic (2)Hello, I am Lee-Ann Bed­ford (you can call me Lee) and this is my BLOG.

I am a mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sional, with a wealth of knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence from over 20 years mar­ket­ing expe­ri­ence across many sec­tors. I work as a Con­tent and Social Media Man­ager for a finan­cial ser­vices com­pany in London.

I am a pos­i­tive, proac­tive per­son who never gives up on dreams or stops try­ing to improve my knowl­edge. I have taken a ‘life is too short’ phi­los­o­phy after los­ing my mother within weeks to a rare brain dis­ease and believe things hap­pen for a reason.

My BLOG is about mak­ing a dif­fer­ence by help­ing peo­ple in the way that I can: through knowl­edge. The Theme is based on the rip­ple effect of drop­ping a peb­ble in water. Aqua Peb­ble Blog is an opin­ion blog on focus­ing on social media and shar­ing some of my knowl­edge and learn­ings with oth­ers, but occa­sion­ally touches on other top­ics that I find myself ques­tion­ing or think­ing about or inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion I come across.

I have a pas­sion for help­ing other peo­ple grow and develop to their full poten­tial. I also have a huge per­sonal inter­est in devel­op­men­tal and behav­ioural psy­chol­ogy and help­ing learn­ing dis­abled chil­dren reach their poten­tial by devel­op­ing under devel­oped areas of the brain. I have seen fan­tas­tic results in this field.

Fur­ther­more, I believe in look­ing after the envi­ron­ment. I want my chil­dren and their chil­dren and… to expe­ri­ence the beauty our world has to offer. I love the feel­ing of being one-with-nature and feel recharged when walk­ing through wood­lands and forests. I also find Water­falls quench my thirst for tranquillity.

I started writ­ing my first novel, but while I develop my busi­ness it is on hold. It is a science-fantasy genre novel (a genre I love read­ing). My hus­band and I have cre­ated a world with cul­tures, polit­i­cal and social struc­tures and he has drawn some great maps for me. Writ­ing a novel is more chal­leng­ing than I ever expected, but great fun. I love the cre­ative side of devel­op­ing the story but some­times I get stuck try­ing to find ‘the word’ that says what I want to say. I bought a big fat dic­tio­nary and the­saurus to help – and that they do.

I also love tak­ing a walk to exer­cise the stiff limbs (sit­ting all day is not good), read­ing a good book or watch­ing an excit­ing movie. Occa­sion­ally I like to exper­i­ment with my culi­nary skills oth­er­wise, a good healthy home cooked meal is the order of the day.

I am com­mit­ted to mak­ing a dif­fer­ence to those I works with and pro­vid­ing a high qual­ity expe­ri­ence and out come.

I hope you enjoy your time on my BLOG and will con­tribute to mak­ing it a suc­cess. I would be thrilled if you posted some com­ments on my posts. If you are on LinkedIn why not add me as a con­tact. Thank-you for vis­it­ing Aqua Pebble.