Success Stories

We found 532 stories

“The risk of stepping into the unknown is terrifying.”

“Sometimes I cried, I was so miserable. But it gave me motivation to grow my business faster.”

“It was time for a change and to do something that I felt passionate about.”

“I decided I wanted to have more freedom, and that the only way to achieve this was to be self-employed.”

“I felt like a small cog in a huge machine.”

“I thought 'If this is how the rest of my life is going to be, I'll end up burned out and depressed...'”

“I realised that I was compromising my values simply by being there.”

“It gave me insomnia: the kind where you bolt awake in the middle of the night.”

“We had been discussing starting our own business for months, but injuring myself really gave me the push I needed.”

“I didn't want to lose my passion and desire to succeed in my career; I just needed to do something that would allow flexibility, on my own terms.”

“I don't miss the constant feeling that I didn't enjoy what I was doing. It made every day feel difficult and an exhausting pretence to keep up.”

“I was putting so much pressure on myself to find 'the one' thing, because I didn't want to make another mistake.”

“I was tired of working to achieve someone else's goals and dreams at the expense of my own.”

“I thought about how I wanted big businesses to behave differently, and knew I had to be part of making that change happen.”

“I didn't want to leave my son, no matter how perfect the job might seem on paper.”

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