Hi Karen, Welcome to this series of interviews with female business owners? What can you tell us about you by way of introduction? I’m Karen Gilbert and have been properly self-employed since 2003. My current business is writing and teaching perfumery, but I didn’t set out with the intention of it being a business, it just kind of happened. In 2010 I decided to take a break from my other business as it was really draining me, and started to teach a few classes for fun. I got a book deal a few months later and never actually went back […]