In an extraordinary turn of events, a woman who appears not to be a victim appeared on the popular BBC Breakfast News television programme, this morning, Wednesday 8 May 2008. Rochelle Marina is a successful business woman who has not experienced any form of discrimination in her rise to the top of the traditionally male-dominated leisure industry. She owns six golf clubs, and is a well-respected meritus professor of Business Studies at Midlands flagship University, Leicester Branks.

I am struck by the beauty of Rochelle, 35, when we meet at one of the nicer Starbucks in Birmingham City Centre. I ask her about the discrimination that she has not received.

"It is strange, Mr. Holden -" she starts before I interrupt her, and ask her to call me Richard.

"It is strange, Richard -", she continues, "but in my rise to the top I have never encountered any form of discrimination. I think you may well agree that I am not unattractive?". She is a stunner so I have no problem agreeing with her. "And yet I have never been sexually discriminated against by any man in any of the jobs I did before I went out on my own. I have always been treated fairly – you know, been paid the same as, or more than, male counterparts on a similar job grade, and my bosses have always gone out of their way to make sure I was happy in my jobs."

Perhaps she has been discriminated against, because of her racial background? "No, I am of mixed race, as you will have noticed, but I cannot think of a single occasion when anyone has allowed race to affect my progress. Mind you, I would expect nothing else - I got reasonably decent GCSE's (seven B grades) and whilst I did not stay on to do A-levels, and chose not to go to college or university, my colour and gender do not seem to have inhibited my career in any way at all. I have been offered every job I have ever applied for, and so I find it difficult to complain at all."

I wonder if she has ever been classified as someone who has special educational needs, or if her parents were so poor that they could not afford to feed her, or maybe she had been anorexic at some point? "None of those descriptions could be applied to me at any point throughout my life", she enthusiastically responded, "I was distinctly average at school although I was always very popular with the teachers – especially the masters - and I never actually needed special attention. I guess I was just lucky that a number of my teachers seemed more than happy to give me after hours tuition to bring me up to speed on my weaker subjects. My parents were very middle class and whilst we were by no means rich, we always had more than enough food and I have never suffered from any eating disorders."

Perhaps she had been autistic?. "No".

Had she ever been an alcoholic or a drug addict? Or maybe she had suffered at the hands of someone who was an addict at some point? "No. Sometimes I wonder if I look like an alcoholic, men and some women, too, always seem to want to buy me drinks, but I hardly think that would count as suffering. I just say no when I have had enough."

She certainly seems well enough balanced, and I am running out of conditions that she might have suffered from, so I ask her what of the future as we leave the coffee shop? Before she can answer, a passing taxi, the driver of which I noticed was staring at us, mounts the pavement and knocks down a seventy year old woman on the opposite side walk. "There is your victim", she points out, "I see similar things happening to men and women almost every day."

And as to the future? Well Rochelle Marina, who incidentally shares her name with the beautiful harbour on the French Riviera, says that she is optimistic. "A man I met yesterday has offered to buy me a sand wedge, a putter and three woods to go with the six clubs I already own, and so I am confident that I'll have the whole set by the end of the month. I am also writing a book called, 'You Don't Need an Educashun, Just Smarten Up', and we already have a publishing deal for that."

If only more women were as positive as Rochelle.

"My cups are definitely a little over half full rather than slightly empty", she giggles.

'You Don't Need an Educashun, Just Smarten Up' by Rochelle Marina and Richard Holden is published by Craven-Plugger in the summer. £15.99 from all good bookshops.