This month’s Fearless Fridays interview is with Jeremy Lovelace, coming to us all the way from Rio. Having started as a freelance language teacher, Jeremy’s ambitions soon drew him to the financial services industry and to an opportunity in New York and Wall Street. To some extent, he had always known that he was more […]
Escaping the 9 to 5 with Jennifer Brown
This month’s interview is with Jennifer Brown, the founder of South American-inspired luxury goods brand Pampeano. Having studied physics at university, she started her career in finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, later completing an MA in real estate and working in residential fund management at Grosvenor. However, feeling that she “wasn’t a very […]
Escaping the 9 to 5 with Tee Twyford
This month’s Fearless Fridays interview is with Tee Twyford, whom I met during my stint as a consultant at Burberry in the early days of my own transition out of corporate marketing. I was working in the beauty department on optimising the brand’s presence on e-retail sites such as Feel Unique, Sephora and Macys, while […]
From product safety engineer to grief worker
This month’s Fearless Fridays interview is with Daniel Franzén, who is currently working with me in The Outsiders Business Accelerator. He left his 9 to 5 as a product safety engineer in the forest industry when he was “lucky enough” to have his job removed as part of an organisational restructuring. He had always been […]
Escaping the 9 to 5 with Santiago Carral
This month’s interview is with Santiago Carral, who left his corporate marketing role to build an interior design and woodworking business. We’re currently working together in my Outsiders Business Accelerator. A fellow ex-P&Ger, Santi took up woodworking alongside his corporate marketing role originally as a hobby. Over time, however, his passion for this design work […]