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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

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

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

02/03/23 • 54 min

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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

Michael Heppell

The Conservation Volunteers

The Royal Society of Arts

JCI

RotaryThe WI

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

02/03/23 • 54 min

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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

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[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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