burn from within
After I eventually graduated, I landed my dream job as a conference producer. I
was over the moon! This even blossomed into a rewarding career over several
years. Even though I loved my job, I noticed the company I worked for had
started to change. The new management was driving many talented people I
respected out, and their values started to really diverge from my own. I still
loved the CEO, and to my surprise, when I handed in my notice, she gave me a
rather lovely present. My CEO asked me to launch a cosmetic product business she
had been working on for a while. Even though I had no direct experience in this
industry, she trusted in my abilities and shattered a long-standing belief that
I could only work in one industry or for other people. I started to believe in
myself. I now felt I could run my own business. I just wished I had discovered
this belief earlier, and later discovered through the extensive training I
completed in becoming a coach, that you can set these empowering beliefs
yourself with the right coach! I decided to finally scratch my travel itch and
embark on a journey around the world with no set end date. I travelled for 18
months, and realized that there was so much more to life than staying in an
office in London. After sipping Caiprinhas in Rio, skydiving in Buenos Aires,
trekking table-top mountains and waterfalls across Venezuela, hot air ballooning
over Turkey and Ukraine, and experiencing the long summer nights with friendly
locals across Scandinavia, I didn’t want to come back. Who would? After working
on a 6 month contract for my previous CEO to recover some of that money I spent
travelling, the belief within me that I could do my own thing was still strong.
So I invested in courses on ways to make money myself, including a year-long
real estate investment course. After investing in some real estate myself, I
ended up working with a property developer as it was a chance to learn how to
find and secure bigger developments and deals, which was a way to build
long-term wealth and more passive income. But I absolutely HATED (no that’s not
strong enough a word) working with the people and all the values they stood for.
It was purely for money. After a few months, I realized how lonely and unhappy I
was. My life really was out of balance. Eventually I became quite depressed and
felt lost, so I decided to hire a NLP coach who specialized in career
transition. I remember so vividly one of the powerful tools she coached with me
in particular made me realize I was not living as the person I was born to be. I
looked at myself objectively as a character in a movie. This guy Matt I was
seeing was hunched over his home office desk, all alone, looking outside into
his garden watching the rain. I realized that Matt was a social, fun and
confident guy. He was not using his natural talents and far from an environment
that made him thrive. It was like watching a bird screaming to get out of a tiny
cage. It was not right – I had to let him free. After this coaching, a friend
recommended me to his boss for a sales role I would have ordinarily pass off had
it not been for this insight through coaching. I got the job and thrived in
sales, breaking various team and company records in my first year. But I wanted
more: to travel much more, take care of my health, find balance and do my own
thing again. So I invested in a personal coach for 12 months, who motivated me
to take big decisions. I left the UK in August 2017 for Australia and then Asia.
Inspired after the powerful NLP coaching I had experienced, I planned several
NLP retreats and trainings to become a trainer just for my own personal
development. Through various business and career transitions, and observing the
structures that worked for me and my coaching clients, I realized any life
transition that was sustainable had to have three magic elements: Passion,
Purpose and Balance. On top of the extensive coaching training I had, I decided
to interview a series of people who have made the journey from feeling bored and
burnt out in their career, to transitioning to a life of balance, passion and
purpose in brand new fields. I noticed patterns in all of these stories that
lead to developing my own unique coaching model for career transition. I call
this to ‘Burn From Within’. If you feel trapped in your own career or business
right now, or confused about where you need to go next – I can help. It can be
scary emotionally, financially and it’s easy to be immobilized knowing that you
could be making bad choices. So let’s chat about this – you can have what you
want in this life and taking the first steps to just talk about it can make all
the difference. I invite you to book a free clarity call with me here and we can
take those first life-changing steps together.
