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When Tamzin Merivale was selected for an EU Fellowship aimed at building an international network of female entrepreneurs, she didn’t expect to find herself standing on the edge of a pool in Spain listening to 13 women – all in the water and all fully clothed - chanting her name. This is how she got to the 27-day work retreat and what she experienced on the way ...

“Is there anywhere to swim?”?  I had wondered the same thing, but I was too shy to ask. Surely, I wouldn’t have to spend a month in southern Spain, complete with 30 degrees heat, without a lake or a pool or somewhere to cool down?  “Well, there’s a kind of pond,” answered the organiser, “but that’s where the pigs swim.”  I was attending the first zoom meeting for a Fellowship called The Break, an EU-funded...

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