Shirley Yanez

Shirley Yanez was born on a Leicester council estate, the fifth of six children in 1956. She left school without qualifications at 16, moved to London and over the twenty years that followed established herself as a business women and highly successful entrepreneur. By the time she was forty she was a millionaire, living in beach front property in Los Angeles.

In 2000, a stock market crash wiped out her fortune and a near death experience that followed due to no medical insurance and no money, left her in an LA homeless shelter for a short time in 2005.

Shirley's rags to riches to rags story, and finding herself along the way has been featured on TV and in the press, working alongside Trisha Goddard on her Channel 5 show. Shirley, a lifestyle and celibacy expert is a regular commentator on TV and radio.

Founder of Venus Cow free life coaching and on line journal, available for anyone wishing to work on themselves, Shirley, is now working on the launch of her Venus Cow Clothing Collection. Shirley is a committed social entrepreneur and works with people struggling with a range of issues, (alcohol, debt, status anxiety, obesity, depression, drug addiction)

Shirley published her first life coaching book Help Work Yourself Out, August, 2013. She has also written two humourous books.

For more information visit Shirley's website http://www.venuscow.co.uk