This week’s Iwasgonnae guest is Jackie Galbraith. When Jackie was at school, she decided she wanted to be a police officer but at 5 1” tells us ‘that wasn’t going to happen’. But her career advisors at school had other ideas for her and were confident she would achieve enough Highers to go to University. However, going to University wasn’t going to be straightforward when she at that time wanted to study apartheid and ended up having to travel 500miles for her chosen subject.

As a young person Jackie was ‘inspired and at the same time terrified, by George Orwell but she loved his use of the English language. Jackie tells us she really ‘bangs the drum’ about keeping English ‘language simple and plain, not educational or political, communicate simply and clearly so all people can understand it’.

Her advice to the next generation is to ‘be your best person, take your passions and take that energy’ and 'do your very best', ‘because by doing that you will get yourself noticed’.

Listen to more of Jackie’s career and life stories on the IWG Charity Podcast.