Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

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Carolyn Parry

11 episodes

9 months ago

Apart from the first six months of his professional career, which he left due to a dream he had, Dr Clive King has spent the whole of his career supporting global technology clients for Oracle, one of the largest technology companies, from his home base near Aberystwyth at a time when working from home wasn't a thing.A self-confessed contrarian who loves challenging goals and working to solve highly complex technology problems with others, Clive discovered that becoming a specialist expert in...

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Episodes (11/11)

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

A conversation with Dr Clive King: from geographer, coder, and global techie problem solver turned contractor who loves an outdoor challenges

1 year ago

49 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

A conversation with Steve Keith: a journey towards authenticity through education, corporate life, and freelancing

The son of a mechanic Dad and secretary Mum who together went on to run a business, Steve Keith’s career journey has taken him on a quest of curiosity and learning to become his authentic self and stand in his own power.The first member of his family to go to university, Steve graduated from the prestigious Durham University and became a Teach First teacher in an inner-city school before life eventually led to him to a new challenge and a space where he could come out as a gay man at the age ...

2 years ago

1 hour 17 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Eight with Dr Lorna Collins, from aspiring jockey, and university lecturer, to artist, film maker and writer

By the age of 15, Lorna already had an exciting equestrian career in front of her and represented Great Britain several times successfully in junior eventing. Passionate about speed and with a Dad who was a champion jockey, at 16 she set herself another goal – to become the first woman to win the Grand National. She was also on track to become a student at Cambridge University. Out on the gallops one day, disaster struck, and she had an accident that almost killed her. Her catastro...

2 years ago

52 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Seven with Natalie Williams : from International Politics lecturer, and Academic Registrar to entrepreneur and luxury jewellery maker

After studying International Politics and gaining her PhD from Aberystwyth University, Natalie Williams became a lecturer - only to find she hated teaching.Not sure what to do after that, she ended up working in academic administration at the university, rising through the ranks to become a Quality Assurance Manager and an Academic Registrar.Following a divorce and heading for 40, she felt the need for change, so when a secondment opportunity came up to go to Mauritius to set up a branch camp...

2 years ago

54 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Six with Chris Jones from tea boy and cameraman to presenter, sock designer, Non Exec Director, podcaster, event host and walking guide

Chris Jones had a eureka moment at university when he discovered the joys of being a cameraman while studying for a media degree. Suddenly and unexpectedly made redundant during the pandemic, he now uses his natural ability to build relationships in his work as a podcaster, event host, charity ambassador, Non-Exec Director, and walking guide.Starting as a tea boy and runner, his journey took him all around the world filming for sports programmes like Grandstand and World of Sport and includin...

2 years ago

59 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Five with Vicky Rushton: from school leaver and carer to design engineering and company director

Vicky Rushton found her voice advocating for her very sick second child, Oliver, at the age of 21, and now uses it to help others express themselves through design. One of thirteen children, she grew up in Manchester and left school at 15 to help bring up her siblings. Pregnant at sixteen, she bought her first home with her partner and balanced bringing up her daughter with a career in retail sales. All was going well until life threw a spanner in her career plans and she had to spend the ne...

2 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Four with Julia Goodfellow Smith: from bank manager to environmentalist, author and adventurer

Julia Goodfellow Smith is a self-confessed adventurer, speaker, writer, and author of best-selling books. But that’s not how she started out.Originally a management scientist born in the era of Thatcherism, she became a small business banker but found the constraints of working in the corporate world made her feel like a square peg in a round hole.Her desire for more freedom led to investing in a franchise helping businesses to reduce their energy costs. Meanwhile, the call she heard in her c...

2 years ago

54 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Three with Mel Cameron: from camp host and marketeer to uni careers adviser

Mel Cameron is a people person whose career journey has taken her from media studies at college and working in Pizza Hut to embracing her love of travel and falling into a career in the summer camp industry. She has worked in various camps in the US, gaining resilience as she helped young people to make the most of their experience. A mature student at university, she went on to advance her career in the industry by taking advantage of opportunities to take on student digital marketing and at...

2 years ago

55 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode Two: The Reason is changing its name to Change Your Story

This mini episode outlines the impetus behind changing the title of the podcast from The Reason to Change Your Career.Listen to find out how many hours you will spend at work during your lifetime and just how few people are currently doing work they love.Watch out for new episodes from inspirational people coming soon!This short clip explains briefly why "The Reason" podcast has changed its name to "Change Your Story".TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM CAROLYN: Connect with Carolyn on social me...

2 years ago

3 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Episode One with Cathy Presland: making the world a little fairer and a little better

ABOUT THIS EPISODE’S GUESTCathy Presland is an executive coach and leadership consultant, former economist, public policy professional, and senior leader.An adviser to Governments and international organisations around the world for over twenty years, she has lived and worked in Africa, where she designed and led global anti-poverty initiatives including setting up a micro-lending fund for women, working for a policy think tank, and consulting for the World Bank, the European Union, and other...

3 years ago

34 minutes

Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!

Introducing The Reason, putting purpose to work

This brief episode highlights the malaise and deep-seated unhappiness we have come to recognise as a result of the pandemic and highlights what it is we crave to have happy and fulfilling working life.The Reason is hosted by Carolyn Parry who spent 17 years in business heading away from who she really was and into burnout before she found her purpose and retrained as a career coach. Now twenty years on, she is a multi-award-winning, certified career and life coach, TEDx speaker, and run...

3 years ago

2 minutes