For commentator and writer Catherine McGregor, resilience is the ability to fall down eight times and get up nine. She sat down with Helen McCabe to discuss her life story, as told to the Future Women’s community in our new book Untold Resilience.

When asked what makes her happy, McGregor, says nowadays, it’s the simple things: listening to the thumping heartbeat of her dog laying on her chest, practising being mindful in a world that never seems to slow down and reciting poetry when in need of wisdom, she’s very good at that. McGregor’s favourite poet, Robert Frost, once wrote: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.