Retraining to have a more fulfilling career
If you’re dreaming of making a career change, but need a little inspiration and want to understand what drives others to do reinvent their working lives, join me as I invite a former client and friend to share her own career transition story with you.
Amy and I first met in our old lives, when she was one of my PR clients. Years later, she became one of my coaching clients, when she was seeking a career change that would make her truly happy.
Today, after 18 years as a communications and public relations professional in IT, Amy is a registered physiotherapist. As you can imagine, it’s quite a change!
In this episode we discuss
- Amy’s original role and why she felt it wasn’t for her anymore
- The three big life events that caused Amy to deeply evaluate what she needed and wanted from a career. We get into:
- Her personal IVF journey, which sadly wasn’t successful
- A close family member having lung cancer, and her having to care for him
- The death of her grandparents, who both lived past their 100th year, and how carers and physios made it possible for them to live in their own home
- What Amy did to research and work out which fields and careers might suit her
- How she discovered the field of physiotherapy, and determined the specialism she’s now in
You’ll also get to hear us get into Amy’s journey to fully transitioning into her new career and how she feels about it today compared to her old career life.
Amy is so clearly happy with her decision that she’s an inspiration to listen to!
Come and join us.
A bit more about Amy
Amy McLean is a community physiotherapist, with a particular focus on care of the elderly for a London Borough NHS Trust.
After nearly 18 years working in corporate communications for the tech industry, Amy chose to pursue a vocation in healthcare, returning to university and graduating with a first-class honours in BSc Physiotherapy from St Mary’s University Twickenham in 2023.
Amy is particularly passionate about care in the community helping people to live and age well. An advocate for population health and health equality, Amy has guest lectured at London universities and at The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy student conference with the hope of inspiring the next generation of physiotherapists.
Amy’s choice of healthcare vocation stems from a lifelong interest in exercise physiology, a deep personal drive to help and care for others, and a desire to apply transferable skills accrued throughout her career in problem solving, relationship building, and communication.
Amy is a keen runner having completed two London Marathons, and is currently training for The Jurassic Coast Ultra Marathon next year. She lives in South West London with her husband and fur baby (miniature schnauzer) Betsy.
If you would like to know more about Amy, please do connect with her LinkedIn.
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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?
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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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