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Starting Chuku’s without any hospitality experience, Frederick gained a reputation as an industry pioneer and has been featured in Forbes’ list of 100 Female Founders in Europe. She was also the winner of the 2019 Young British Foodie Awards in the food sharing category.

Alongside running Chuku's, Frederick is also a critically acclaimed writer. Her debut play, The Hoes, was staged in London in 2018. Her latest play, Sessions, explored depression and therapy, and toured the UK in 2021. Having learnt from her own experiences of burnout, she is vocal about the importance of mental wellbeing for entrepreneurs and high-achievers.

essay had been set by the late Professor Burnyeat on the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. I had no pointers in which direction to take, and the reading list was so vast I knew I couldn't possibly read it all, and, anyway, how would I know which texts to read to find the answer? Why was I not having my hand held throughout the process? In that moment, I knew I was never going to survive the following three years. I didn't have a clue what I was doing.

June 2014: I was graduating Cambridge University with a 2:1, having received a first in my ancient philosophy module. I had more than survived. I’d thrived.

Since then—as is probably the case with many classicists—I've been quizzed on the purpose of my Classics degree, including what I thought studying Latin and Socrates was going to do for me in life. But my response is always the same: I opted to study Classics for the sheer fun of it. I loved the sneak peek I got at school, and if I was going to pay to go to university and spend three years of my life reading and writing essays it was going to be on something I enjoyed. And studying Classics has genuinely benefitted my personal development. For example, studying Stoic philosophy taught me a lot about managing my own emotions. It underpins a lot of modern-day therapy and the content you find in contemporary self-help books (see Ryan Holiday's growing popularity).

October 2011: I sat in front of my computer, a blank Word document on the screen, wondering, where do I begin? I was attempting to tackle my first supervision essay. The topic was ancient philosophy, which would quickly become my favourite part of my degree, and the

But perhaps, most helpfully, I left Cambridge and Robinson College having spent three years honing a critical life skill: how to begin when you don't know what you're doing. Even after three years of weekly essays, I never felt at ease starting one. The same "I don't know what to do" feeling would always accompany every essay question. But with each hand-in, I got better and better at working alongside that feeling and also figuring out what I needed to do to be able to get to a point where I could start to think about answering the question. I never