Blog - Happy at Work True Stories
22.12.2016 - How to reinvent your career and your life: Pivot—change careers and live again
Creating Your Past and Your Future: Celebrate Your Audacity What amazing feedback one of my client’s Lisa Conroy received! Incredible! So proud of her – living and working as she does with passion and purpose! Her success story is just one of many that have enriched my life this year – I’m thankful that having …MORE »
19.12.2016 - Success Story: Turning Her Dream into a Reality – Reinventing Joy Again
Joy spent 10 years as a Legal Conveyancer—but wanted to do something more creative. “I looked around one day and thought to myself, ‘Joy do you realize that shortly you are going to be the eldest one around here?’ I didn’t feel enamored with that thought.” One day she was driving to work, stuck in …MORE »
15.12.2016 - How a chance encounter lead one unhappy employee to confidently leave a job she hated, and start living a life she loved, before it was too late
***CLIENT SUCCESS STORY**** I received this lovely newsletter today from my beautiful, courageous mid-life career changer, Cate Walker. I’ve included it below. Her story is such an amazingly inspirational tale of transformational career change and the power of following your passion – as well as the power of acting on a chance encounter. Chance is also …MORE »
21.01.2016 - How to keep your dreams alive
On a roll for sure – ever since I dreamed of moving to a warmer climate, and created a manifestation fridge with the caption, “Thriving Up North.” I just uploaded the FIRST book I ever wrote and self-published – the one rejected by a big name publisher because they felt the world wasn’t ready for …MORE »
2.12.2015 - Why I Wrote Mid-Life Career Rescue – the rise of the older worker
Why I Wrote Mid-Life Career Rescue Someone once asked me, “What was the catalyst for writing your book?” In part, it was my experience as a psychologist and career counsellor, and the experiences of my clients. Like, those who were made redundant after 40-years of loyal service, and offered only 2 hours of support to help …MORE »
20.11.2015 - What a bummer it’s Friday
What a bummer it’s Friday… Some beautiful, timely words, from the always beautiful photographer Carla Coulson arrived in my inbox today. I was fortunate enough to do a photography workshop with her in Puglia, Italy last year. Carla is currently living in Paris and refusing to succumb to terror. One of the biggest things she …MORE »
28.01.2015 - How to manifest a new career
From Air Hostess to Career Counsellor Angela is 41 and a single parent of two young daughters. At the time she came to see me she was working as an air hostess, a job she had been doing for over ten years. She was feeling stressed by the shift work and her inability to care …MORE »
7.04.2014 - Obsessions lead to career success
Pursue your passionate obsessions for career success “How do you find a job that doesn’t feel like work?” asked one lady on our Facebook page yesterday. Finding a job that makes you happy begins inside out. First you must clarify who you really are and what makes you tick. Focusing on the things that make …MORE »
7.04.2014 - Time to get your new career on the move?
You’ve probably held it said that endings herald new beginnings. Many of us if we are forced to confess will admit that unless we got an encouraging, or more often what seems to be a discouraging, nudge we never would have been brave enough to make a change for the better. I received this message …MORE »
2.04.2013 - How inspiration can carve out a career opportunity
When you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that don’t open for anyone else ~Joseph Campbell, Author When thinking about the work you want to do, there is no better place to start than tapping into your deepest interests, obsessions and the things that inspire you. It may seem obvious but the sad …MORE »
