About Jane

“I want to know what makes people tick!”

That was my passion aged 16, and it’s been my passion every since. As a teenager, I was already fascinated by how people thought, why they thought what they did, and the resulting behaviour (not to mention my own!). Later, with a psychology degree and Diploma in HR Management under my belt, I’d become head of the HR department in a leading department store in London. But I still wasn’t satisfied, not in terms of my personal life, nor what I was learning about others. In the early 80’s, ripe for a change, I ended up in what I would now call a cult, where I certainly started learning and my personal development journey accelerated enormously.

Redundancy

Eventually I moved on, by choosing a redundancy option from the cult, (one of the best things I ever did in my life was joining that organisation, and one of the others was escaping from it!) and in 1988, I traveled to the Greek island of Skyros, where I worked for a holistic holiday company as part of the management team for three years. During this time I was a personal student of Louise L. Hay of “You Can Heal Your Life” fame in California, and returned to England to begin leading study groups based on her book. Now I was really beginning to understand about ‘what made people tick!’

“Jane Duncan has written a brilliant book that will help you turn your life around.”

Louise L.Hay

Under my maiden name of Jane Duncan, I led groups around the UK and Europe for ten years, mostly based on Louise Hay’s work, and I also built up a private practice as a counselor and psychotherapist, publishing two books and several audio tapes. Choose Your Thoughts Change Your Life was well received and this was the comment that Louise Hay made of this book.

At the same time, with my husband Philip, I wrote Sixty Ways to Lose/Keep Your Lover, a book about improving your relationship through the use of positive affirmations.

Our complementary health business

We then started a related business that grew into the largest complementary health clinic in the UK outside of London, with over 50 practitioners and ten rooms. Here I had the opportunity to learn and put into practice many different business skills.

Illness and money

In 2003 Philip became very ill with ME. We were forced to re-look at our attitudes to finance and money, as he couldn’t work and clearly wasn’t going to be able to for the foreseeable future. We changed our lives dramatically by selling the Clinic in 2004; I stopped running courses/seeing clients, and we were compelled to re-evaluate where we were going and why, especially about how we made our living. As I started to think differently about money, wealth, riches and business, I began to develop much more mental wealth, alongside business strategies and financial knowledge. After a long holiday in New Zealand, some time spent in Ireland checking out communities to live near, and dabbling in the housing and property market there, RichThinkers was born when we moved to Scotland, where we live now.

RichThinkers

RichThinkers is the result of this lifelong fascination I have with how humans think, and the application of my psychological and business skills to support all kinds of self-employed professionals in making their practices, businesses and lives as successful and fulfilling as possible. I’m still learning and hope I always will, as I just love it!

My purpose with RichThinkers is to inspire and awaken others to live their lives in abundance, pleasure, joy, happiness, peace and contentment.

Jane is a Certified Prosperity Guide with the Prosperity Partnership Programme