This month, I’ve been talking to Wayne Cullum about his experience of leaving his teaching job behind to set up an art and soft play space in his local area. As Wayne soon discovered, starting your own business requires a whole range of skills and tasks beyond the business idea itself, in his case involving […]
Fearless Fridays: From management consultant to healthy eating guru
This month’s career change interview is with Laura, whose story starts with a blog about Happy Sugar Habits. The concept of eating low sugar is one that is deeply familiar to me, having first been introduced to the Montignac low GI diet in 2001. My dad as well as my aunt and uncle saw the […]
Fearless Fridays: From front office manager to poet, linguist, nomad…
I met Sarah Helena Barmer on a two-week writing course on the island of Skyros in Greece. For me, this may just have been the best holiday I ever went on; it was definitely what I needed at the time. It was an environment in which everyone was completely open and accepting, and I felt […]
Fearless Fridays: From Consumer Goods to Philanthropism
This month’s interview is with Tom, a former colleague from Procter & Gamble. Tom’s new venture is an organisation that offers different volunteering programs to match you with an NGO without charging any agency fees. Currently based in South Africa, Tom hopes to extend the programs internationally in the future. Having been interested in volunteering myself […]
Fearless Fridays: From nutritionist and health marketer to marketer AND performer
Another great career story this week, this time with a bit of a twist. I met Anthony in Basel last year, having been brought together by a mutual friend due to our common background in marketing and passion for theatre (apart from the fact that we’re both lovely people, obviously). At the time, he was […]