WIPp 006 Lucybloom Webb: From Makeup Artist to Yoga Instructor

10/16/19 • 55 min

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Interview summary
Where to find Lucybloom: website, instagram, The Yoga Feed Retreat

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Today’s guest is Lucybloom, a yoga instructor based in Ireland who transitioned away from her makeup artist career when she realized that she was unhappy with the long working hours and the stressful lifestyle.
She started doing yoga as a way to manage stress and as she got more advanced she flew to India and got a yoga instructor certification. At the same time, a car accident on a rainy early morning comute to the film set made her realize that this is not something wanted to continue pursuing. She decreased hours doing makeup and started teaching yoga. Today she teaches yoga and co-owns a yoga retreat with her friend Alice. It is evident how at ease and in peace she feels with her her new path.
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What was it like starting your own business?

She didn’t have much money to begin with due to the nature of freelance work. In the beginning it was hard and it took a long time to build a client base, but she took the perspective that her job is to serve and help people; she knew by sticking to that ethos, she would be coming from the right place. “If you had smaller number in your classes, you [might] feel a bit disheartened but really that’s just your ego” and at the end of the day you need to put that aside because your job is to help people who show up at the class.

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When you switched to yoga, was there anything difficult about it?

No, “it felt easy and right, I felt at home. I just actually felt like I came home.”

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Work In Progress Question: what does your next career look like?

Writer. Writing is something that comes naturally to her and she’s always enjoyed writing.

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Resources

Interview summary
Where to find Lucybloom: website, instagram, The Yoga Feed Retreat

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When you switched to yoga, was there anything difficult about it?

No, “it felt easy and right, I felt at home. I just actually felt like I came home.”

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Work In Progress Question: what does your next career look like?

Writer. Writing is something that comes naturally to her and she’s always enjoyed writing.

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WIPp 005 Amy Ng: Pharmacist, UX Designer

Amy quit her pharmacist career when she realized she was hitting a development ceiling and she embarked on a journey to find out what she could do next. She joined a coding bootcamp and became an UX designer one year later. In this episode Amy shared with us how she realized her career needed a change, how she figured out if tech was for her, and how she networked post bootcamp.
One thing Amy pointed out that we absolutely agreed with is that, there are many transferrable skills you take with you from the previous job to the next, even if it's going into a completely different industry and role.
Currently Amy's role as a UX designer allows her to use the newly acquired coding knowledge to solve healthcare problems that she has always been passionate about.
Where to find Amy:
LinkedIn AmyNg
Medium @aalynng
Medium article article "Parting Words For The Next Graduating Design Bootcamp Class"
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WIPp 007 Leo Gong: From Management Consultant, Founder, Business Operations to Product Manager

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Where to find Leo: LinkedIn, website

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Leo is a director of product at a Bay Area tech startup but he actually started as a management consultant in an entirely different industry. Over the course of his career, he worked in different roles, industries, and even countries! Why did he choose a Liberal Arts program in college despite being a techie at heart? Why did he decide to quit a good career? And how did he switch from management consulting to tech start ups? What was the transition like? So many questions and we have answers for you in this episode! We hope you enjoy Leo’s work in progress story just like we enjoyed talking to him.
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Happy by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/Happy-MBB
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc