Success Stories

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“I had this building feeling that I was wasting my life just making ends meet and living for the weekend.”

“I hated how mundane and unrewarding my work life had become.”

“I remember feeling like I was the only 'loser' who couldn't settle into a career.”

“The usual frustrations of working for somebody else who was purely focused on the bottom line were starting to kick in.”

“I knew at that moment, when someone else was reading my words, that it should have been me delivering the service.”

“I ended up in a field that was fascinating, but not exactly what I wanted to do in my life.”

“I loved working for the BBC, but I still wasn’t as fulfilled as I wanted to be.”

“I had got to the point where I was dreading going into work, I was stressed out, and teetering dangerously close to burnout.”

“I wanted more choice about how I worked and how much time I spent with my children.”

“People kept telling me that I had good empathy and intuition, and I thought I could do more with those qualities.”

“We both wanted to do something a bit different, something that we genuinely cared about.”

“I wanted freedom from the 9–5, to be able to live in exotic locations while still working.”

“I’d felt like a square peg in a round hole for a long time.”

“I had no real interest in working for a large multinational, whose bottom line was making a profit for shareholders.”

“I was so ready to move forward, to be challenged and developed. I decided to look for an organisation who would recognise my capabilites and potential.”

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