Major Life Change is Possible
Do you dream of living a different kind of life, and doing work that incites joy and passion, but think it’s a pipe dream and impossible to achieve, especially if you’re in a partnership or have a family, which compounds the challenge?
If so, join me as I talk to my fabulous friend and podcast strategist and producer, Shelley Röstlund, as she interviews me about mine and my late husband’s own huge career and life change.
Back in 2012, together, we made the decision to throw everything up in the air and totally reinvent what our work and personal lives looked like.
It saw us leave a central London lifestyle for a home in the Welsh mountains, and big careers we’d invested years in for new jobs in completely new fields.
Several people thought we were mad and quite a few thought we were making a huge mistake, but 12 years later, I’m sharing the story, warts and all, about what happened, how we made the transition, and what it did for us.
Shelley helps me unpick our story. I hope it gives you some inspiration if you’ve been feeling less than enthused about where life and work sits for you right now.
In this episode Shelley helps me to share:
- How life looked for Jeremy and I back in 2012 and how we came to make a drastic decision one evening, while out for a meal, after another intense and tiring week
- The way we decided to prioritise the big and small decisions that needed to be made (we were looking at moving location and changing both of our careers at the SAME time!)
- How I navigated my career transition from an employed PR and Comms professional to becoming a self-employed Career Coach (which ended up spanning 4 years end-to-end)
- Why these big moves were the best thing we ever did and why I’m grateful today, that we did what we did
- Why we all need to look at our decisions as mostly TYPE 2 decisions, and not cemented TYPE 1 decisions (listen to the episode to hear what these are and why it matters!)
At the end of the show, I leave you with my greatest wish for you: DON’T HESITATE.
Don’t wait for some magical “right time”, and don’t wait until you are retired so you can only then live the way you want to.
In our case, if we had waited, we would never have had the blissful, freedom-filled nine years that we got to live and enjoy together. Jeremy passed away earlier this year, quite suddenly. Making the decisions we did, creating quality time for each other and those we love, is something I will be forever grateful for.
A bit more about Shelley Röstlund
Shelley Röstlund is a systems-led personal brand strategist working with knowledge experts…those who teach, educate, consult, advise or mentor others. Her specialism is in uncovering her clients’ marketable genius – their unique gifts which they were born to bring into the world.
South African born and British-grown, Shelley has worked with 150+ brands across 30+ industries through her consultancy and agency work. She leads Harbour 32, a family-centred marketing agency which focusses on personal brand strategy and podcast show positioning and production.
She has been captivated by entrepreneur origin stories, the art of business and the magic of message since her early 20’s. When she’s not devouring business adventures, you can find her deep in a vampire thriller or off on an exploration with her teenage daughter, Cavachon doggie and Swedish husband.
If you would like to know more about Shelley or would like to connect with her, please do go to her Harbour 32 website or listen to her podcast show called Brand Compass Show (find on your favourite pod app here). You can connect with her on LinkedIn or join her on Instagram.
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Come and meet, learn from and be inspired by awesome, like-minded people who are on their own Dream Chaser journeys (at various stages).
Find out what’s possible, by seeing what other people are doing to determine and go after their ideal careers and lives.
Curious about changing your career?
Book a call with me to chat about how I work with people just like you every day. Life shouldn’t be hard at work.
Finding what lights you up, brings you joy and gets you paid at the same time – well, that’s a eureka moment. Right?
Find out about my Career Transition Programme and book a call with me.
Questioning your options to change careers?
You may like to wander over and check out my Work Wonderland™ Course. You can use this as a temperature check to make sure that what you are thinking of, in terms of changing your work or job, makes sense.
The course and web application are a low investment to help you to confirm what you are thinking, or give you some routes that you hadn’t considered possible. Read all about it here.
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