Luisa Santos

Mum, book and movie lover, fulled by coffee

📍 London, GB

I'm a mum of 4, work part-time as a career and leadership coach. Always busy, often late. Love spending time with family and friends, reading , travelling, outdoors, and hope to run again when my foot is sorted. Also love yoga, photography and for 20 years I keep saying I'm going to learn to play te

💭 To understand me a little better

Good to know about me

I'd like to create a movement called 'slow texting/emailing'. I feel you often get better replies it's not immediately.

My boundaries

No surprise visits please. I love meeting people but need to organise it first.

How I find communication easier

Very happy with direct!

What gives me energy

Coffee, a walk in the park, a good book, friends and interesting conversations. And at the moment, World Cup games!

What drains me

Very noisy and dark places.

💛 Things I love, can't get enough of, or have been dreaming about

Candles — Love the ones from the White Company

Potted Plants — I love flowers too but potted ones last longer! Ideally the unlikeable ones

🔗 view link

🙅 Things that aren't really for me

Anything with Gluten - me (and two of my kids) are coeliac

⭐ A few of my favourite things

Books

Les Miserables

Movies, plays & TV

An Education

Dear England — on BBC - perfect for World Cup excitement !

Quotes

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

What goes around comes around

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it is what you know for sure that just ain't so

🧰 Tips & life hacks I can share

Audio and ebooks from library

Merton library allows you to immediately access audio and ebooks - amazing when you are away or out of library hours

🧩 Problems I'm trying to solve — ideas welcome

Find a good drums teacher that comes home

🔗 Links

My John Lewis Wish List↗

Gift ideas for Luisa

Selected based on Luisa’s profile. Lyra may earn a commission on some links — see how this works.

Amazon Kindle eBook gift card
Tracked?Link tracked for analytics — no commission earned.
Amazon · £5–£100
Because matches interests: book, coffee, photography Try an Amazon Kindle credit so they can grab the next book the moment they want it
View at Amazon→

Suggestions are auto-generated — not endorsements. Read the partners disclosure for details on how Lyra works with affiliate networks.

This is a Lyra profile