ists. As a member of both organisations, I am bound to follow industry codes of conduct and to maintain a high standard of knowledge and ethics when it comes to Health, Wellness and Wellbeing.
I have been a long time advocate for women and girls and continue to promote entrepreneurial initiatives in the female-led business community. I have specialist coaching programmes for women and girls and I work to ensure that I operate through a gender equal lens when buying or selling services. I also undertake pro bono coaching for young men and women from disadvantaged backgrounds every year.
Natasha Stromberg Wellness is a pioneering Wellness company which encourages people to consume less material ‘stuff’ and more wisdom. Through blogs and workshops, I encourage people to feel more fulfilled emotionally so they don’t turn to unsustainable consumerism out of loneliness or boredom. My research necessitates a lot of reading and I endeavour to source as many books as possible from my local library or buy second hand books. Every year I embark on a six month no shopping programme and encourage others to do the same, I also give my audience tips and tricks on living a sustainable lifestyle whilst still enjoying their lives.
My vision of Wellness is based on the Foundation of Wellness in Nature. I believe that as humans, we cannot be mentally or physically well if we live in a degraded natural environment. As part of my commitment to tackling climate change, I run a monthly Carbon Cutdown webinar to help people reduce their carbon footprint. I provide simple actionable goals to help people in their everyday lives.
On a day- to- day basis I work from home, which reduces my own carbon travel footprint. When I do travel, I walk to meetings or take public transport 95% of the time. I use a Vegan renewable energy provider for my home office and I eat a plant- based diet and ask for meat free alternatives at external meetings. My personal pension is divested from animal agriculture, fossil fuels, Tobacco and Defence industries.
I personally try to live this goal every day. I have planted 6 semi mature trees in my garden, built a pond to support wildlife and have planted many nectar rich flowers for bees. I actively support charities working to halt Bio Diversity Loss, factory farming and animal cruelty they are: Compassion in World Farming which aims to end Factory farming globally, the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting of endangered species and The Brooke who work to protect working horses and donkeys globally.
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When being introduced to Rails I was so intrigued to hear about "the magic of Rails". If you don't know about what that is, let me clear that right up. Consider "Rails magic" to be like a bunch of awesome macros and other syntactic short cuts - short code snippets that you write that prevent you from having to write a ton of lines of code to get the same functionality. You can even build entire websites with just a few lines of migration code, but it's generally not the best practice. While working on my Rails project I learned that building a great dynamic website is a tedious task, and as a developing rubyist, here are a few things I learned.

**Planning is everything** - Most dynamic websites have multiple models(objects) that have relationships with other models (i.e Users have many Blog Posts). Both the user and blog posts are considered objects with database relationships called Active Record Relationships. Now it's easy to think about how we might set this up this simple relationship, but what happens when you add one, two or even three models to your project? It can get hectic and confusing fast when thinking about how all the objects could relate to one another. This is why planning ahead can help keep you from making mistakes or working backwards. I suggest that writing out not only your idea but how the objects/models will relate. Below is an example of my Models' Active Record Relationships:

* **User:**
*    has_many :items
*    has_many :stores through: :items
* 
* **Item**:
*    belongs_to :user
*    belongs_to :store
* 
* **Store:**
*    has_many :items
*    has_many :users through: :items

**How to W.I.N** - Whether it's an error or area of interest, it's easy to get distracted when developing a project. If working in my Rails project has taught me nothing else, it's that focusing on the tasks at hand is the most important, and that's kind of a struggle when you find out how robust rails is. That why I refer to W.I.N. - a personal acronym for "What's Important Now". When focusing on what the most important features or tasks are, you are sure to "win" and achieve your goal more efficiently. 

**When you're in a bind** - When learning first ruby, I came in contact with a very helpful debugging tool called pry.  Its almost inevitable that when coding you'll hit a snag, and pry is a good tool to help you see into the situation. Inserting "binding.pry" into your code allows you to stop your code at that certain point so that you can run tests for a better understanding on why your code may be breaking. Pry won't solve every issue, but luckily Rails also has extensive guides to help steer you in the right direction if you're not quite sure how to make something work. The Rails community is also vast, so you can even at times rely on the help from other rubyists.

There were many learning curves when building my project, however it was one of the most rewarding things i've done so far relating to software engineering, and needless to say I did get to see some of that rails magic up close. Some of my favorite things to learn and do were generating migrations *(which can create databases, MVCs, and even entire websites with just a few lines of code in the terminal)*, discovering new gems, and setting up third party authenticators like Google and Facebook. I look forward to creating more apps/sites with ruby in the future and growing as a software engineer.

A view of my project can be found[ here](https://github.com/antonysanders1/shopilator)

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<NAME>

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