I started this because I almost didn’t change course myself
For years I told everyone, including myself, that I was fine. I had a title people recognised, a pay cheque that made sense on paper, and a very convincing script for why now wasn’t the right time to change anything. I told that script to myself for the better part of a decade.
What finally moved me wasn’t a single dramatic moment. It was a slow accumulation of Sunday-night dread, and the realisation that ‘someday’ was doing a lot of work I never planned to actually follow through on. When I did finally change course, later than I’d ever admit to planning, it wasn’t glamorous. It was scary, and slow, and absolutely worth it.
Now I write and run workshops for people standing where I stood — capable, a little stuck, and quietly convinced the window has closed. It hasn’t. I’m proof, and so is everyone who’s come through a session and finally said the quiet part out loud.
I am not selling a leap of faith, and I never tell a room to just follow their passion. What I offer is more useful: permission, a few honest exercises, and the company of people asking the same questions you are.
I live for a good café table, a half-finished notebook, and a bright patterned top.
The books
- Second Act at Forty
- The Career Audit Workbook
- Quit Well
- The Pivot Diaries
All titles fictional
Eighteen years doing a job I was good at and quietly unhappy in.
The decision to stop waiting for the right time, and start anyway.
The book that came out of the workshops nobody asked me to run, but people kept turning up to.
The Career Audit Workbook, Quit Well and The Pivot Diaries — the toolkit for the rest of the journey.
Workshops, library evenings, and a growing list of people proving it’s genuinely not too late.