GIRL POWER is set to take centre stage at a fundraising event featuring a Solihull TV journalist and broadcaster.
Suzanne Virdee, will talk about her inspiring career, offering valuable insights into her path to success, including challenges faced working in the media industry at Lunch With Virdee on October 2.
She will also be sharing insights from her two books, A Girl’s Guide To Being Awesome and the best-selling A Teenager’s Guide To Being Fabulous, as well as her passion for empowering young girls with advice on navigating the difficult teenage years at the Warwickshire Golf and Country Club, in Leek Wotton.
Suzanne was born on in 1969 in Solihull and grew up in Edgbaston, attending Park Grove School and Mander Portman Woodward College, going on to become a trainee newspaper reporter.
She then she moved into television and became an award-winning TV news anchor and freelance journalist, who has presented the ITV National News, ITV News London, Channel 5 News and BBC Breakfast, as well as reporting for BBC Radio 4.
But she’s best known in the Midlands for co-presenting the 6.30pm BBC regional news programme Midlands Today alongside Nick Owen for 11 years.
Over her career she’s also been a passionate supporter and mentor to women starting out in journalism.
Speaking about her latest book Suzanne said: “I wish it wasn’t needed but it is – more than ever. The NSPCC reported there is: ‘A deeply rooted notion that girls and young women’s bodies are somehow the property of boys and young men.’
“It’s limiting and dangerous. We all have a responsibility to make sure our next generation of girls find their inner sparkle so they can truly thrive, not just survive, and that’s what my book aims to do.
“I am extremely passionate about this subject because, obviously, I’m a woman and was once a girl and have a certain amount of ’soft power’ being a journalist. I’m looking forward to this event, being in a room surrounded by like-minded women.”
‘Lunch With Suzanne’ has been organised by Ladies First Professional Development Group who are hoping to raise enough money to purchase 50 copies of Suzanne’s book to donate to disadvantaged and vulnerable young girls in the area.
Tickets, which also include a welcome drink and two-course lunch, are available here.
