From the Law to the Waves and the Stage “If you wanted to make a career of it you had to make it your life. But I wanted to work to live, not live to work.”
From Recruitment to Inspiring Networking Events “The usual frustrations of working for somebody else who was purely focused on the bottom line were starting to kick in.”
From Arts Grants to Technology Consultancy “I wanted more choice about how I worked and how much time I spent with my children.”
From Politics and Policy to Coaching and Consulting “People kept telling me that I had good empathy and intuition, and I thought I could do more with those qualities.”
From Management Consultants to Online Entrepreneurs “We both wanted to do something a bit different, something that we genuinely cared about.”
From Pig Breeder to Charity CEO “I had no real interest in working for a large multinational, whose bottom line was making a profit for shareholders.”
Research Analyst to Social Entrepreneur “My role was to sit with another 1,000 people and stare into a computer screen all day making money out of money for rich people.”