From Finance to Social Enterprise “For most of my career, I'd been working towards what I thought was my 'dream role'. When I finally got to it, I was miserable.”
From Office Job to Own Business “Sometimes I cried, I was so miserable. But it gave me motivation to grow my business faster.”
From Corporate Life to Own Consultancy “It was time for a change and to do something that I felt passionate about.”
From Auditing to Own Business “I decided I wanted to have more freedom, and that the only way to achieve this was to be self-employed.”
From Editing to Portfolio Career “I thought 'If this is how the rest of my life is going to be, I'll end up burned out and depressed...'”
From Journalist to Writing Coach and Author “It gave me insomnia: the kind where you bolt awake in the middle of the night.”
From Spa to Start-up “We had been discussing starting our own business for months, but injuring myself really gave me the push I needed.”
From Marketing to Marketplace “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.”
From PR to Psychotherapy “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.”
From Lawyer to Business Owner “I was putting so much pressure on myself to find 'the one' thing, because I didn't want to make another mistake.”
From Contractor to Business Owner “I was tired of working to achieve someone else's goals and dreams at the expense of my own.”
From Publishing to Social Impact “I thought about how I wanted big businesses to behave differently, and knew I had to be part of making that change happen.”
