Episode Four with Julia Goodfellow Smith: from bank manager to environmentalist, author and adventurer
02/03/23 • 54 min
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 childhood from the Save The Whale advertising campaign always stayed in the background and led eventually to her developing an environmental career. A significant emotional event served to remind her that life is for living and a more recent health scare paved the way to becoming the best-selling author and adventurer she is today.
Tune in to find out why she has always volunteered, what it takes to write a book that publishers want to publish, and discover how walking the Camino Way changed Julia for good.
Julia can be contacted via:
Website: https://linktr.ee/juliagsauthorspeaker
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliagsauthor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliagoodfellowsmith/
SHOW REFERENCES:
Significant Emotional Experiences and values – developed by John Massey
Quality of life assessment – free questionnaire from the World Health Organisation
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM CAROLYN:
Connect with Carolyn on social media:
LinkedIn Twitter Why not sign up for her career change newsletter on LinkedIn:
Change Your Story
Facebook Group
Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
Interested in hiring Carolyn as your coach?
Why not book a free 30-minute discovery call with Carolyn to discuss your needs and find out more about how she can help you to change your story?
https://bit.ly/Coffee-with-Carolyn
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 childhood from the Save The Whale advertising campaign always stayed in the background and led eventually to her developing an environmental career. A significant emotional event served to remind her that life is for living and a more recent health scare paved the way to becoming the best-selling author and adventurer she is today.
Tune in to find out why she has always volunteered, what it takes to write a book that publishers want to publish, and discover how walking the Camino Way changed Julia for good.
Julia can be contacted via:
Website: https://linktr.ee/juliagsauthorspeaker
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliagsauthor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliagoodfellowsmith/
SHOW REFERENCES:
Significant Emotional Experiences and values – developed by John Massey
Quality of life assessment – free questionnaire from the World Health Organisation
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM CAROLYN:
Connect with Carolyn on social media:
LinkedIn Twitter Why not sign up for her career change newsletter on LinkedIn:
Change Your Story
Facebook Group
Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
Interested in hiring Carolyn as your coach?
Why not book a free 30-minute discovery call with Carolyn to discuss your needs and find out more about how she can help you to change your story?
https://bit.ly/Coffee-with-Carolyn
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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 attraction roles in the UK.
All was going well until a certain global pandemic reared its ugly head. At this point, she had to make a conscious choice to change her story. As often happens when we had a dream in mind, life conspired to help her put her values and skills to work in a new direction. A twinkle in Mel’s eye became a reality and she is now in a role she loves, training and working as a careers adviser in Lampeter, West Wales, for the University of Wales Trinity St David.
Always one to be busy, she is a firm believer in giving her time where it’s needed and also volunteers for St John’s Ambulance, Tŷ Hafan the Children’s Hospice for Wales, and the National Youth Advocacy Service which has given her additional skills and experience to help her grow.
Mel can be contacted via:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcameron83/
REFERENCES:
Self-efficacy - developed by Albert Bandura
Planned Happenstance – developed by John Krumboltz
Tŷ Hafan the Children’s Hospice for Wales
National Youth Advocacy Service
ABOUT YOUR HOST: CAROLYN
Change Your Story is hosted by Carolyn Parry who spent 17 successful but largely unfulfilling years in business heading away from who she really was and into an existential crisis that led to burnout. That experience led her to change her story and retrain as a certified career and life coach and remains at the heart of her passion for careers work.
Now twenty years on, she is an award-winning certified career/life coach and TEDx speaker. She runs Career Alchemy, a coaching practice that has helped thousands of early-stage, and established professionals create purpose-led careers they love.
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM CAROLYN:
Connect with Carolyn on social media:
LinkedIn Twitter Why not sign up for her career change newsletter on LinkedIn:
Change Your Story
Facebook Group
Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
Interested in hiring Carolyn as your coach?
Why not book a free 30-minute discovery call with Carolyn to discuss your needs and find out more about how she can help you to change your story?
https://bit.ly/Coffee-with-Carolyn
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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 next four years caring for her second child who was born disabled. A third child followed along with a move to live near her father in North Wales and an architectural salvage business.
A chance conversation at the school gates took her back into education at Bangor University, where she found her love of design engineering and business. She completed her degree and won an entrepreneurship award from Santander.
A brief spell in primary teaching, followed by working in a charity, led to another chance encounter with Gerallt Evans, a blacksmith in Conwy, North Wales. Vicky is now Co-Director and equal shareholder of Gerallt Evans Metalcraft Limited. They are the creators of the world's first indoor crazy gold course at Zip World and other metal art and furniture installations, made from fusing ancient blacksmithing techniques with state of the art technology to create unique pieces that are not only beautiful but practical.
Listen to her remarkable story of how she created her own identity out of a chaotic start by following her energy and saying yes to chance opportunities, and hear more about her passion and vision for design engineering.
Vicky can be contacted via:
Website: https://gemetalcraft.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Geralltevansmetalcraft/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geralltevansmetalcraft/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-rushton-34ab8b111/
SHOW REFERENCES:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey
Flourish - a new understanding of happiness and wellbeing– Professor Martin Seligman
(you can read more about PERMA here.)
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
TO CONNECT WITH / HEAR MORE FROM CAROLYN:
Connect with Carolyn on social media:
LinkedIn Twitter Why not sign up for her career change newsletter on LinkedIn:
Change Your Story
Facebook Group
Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
Interested in hiring Carolyn as your coach?
Why not book a free 30-minute discovery call with Carolyn to discuss your needs and find out more about how she can help you to change your story?
https://bit.ly/Coffee-with-Carolyn
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
Transcript
[00:00:00] Carolyn: We all have a story.
[00:00:05] Sometimes it's a story we choose and sometimes it's a story we fall into. That choice can either work for us or against us. Now, according to experts Gallup, on average, we spend 81,396 hours at work over the course of our lifetime. And in fact, the only thing we spend more time doing than working is sleeping.
[00:00:25] And yet, as Gallup's research shows, only around one in 10 people in the UK truly love the wo
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