Joan Lucas
Joan Lucas turned 85 years old in 2023 and following the loss of her husband, in the same year, decided that she wanted to share her life’s journey, with the aim to inspire other women. Born into what would be a family of seven, in the dark wartime years, Joan had many challenges as a child but despite these and with help of other women she became one of the first women to have a career in finance and live as an independent woman in the late 1950s, she went on to have further career success, fall in love with her soul mate, become a mother and travel the world. A story of a strong, resilient woman.