Gabe Barrett joins me to talk about how he went from playing (american) football in college to doing charity missions with the homeless and how working with orphans in Honduras eventually led him to get involved with the board game community, first via the Board Game Design Lab (podcast & community) and later as a board game designer.

#americanfootball #football #charity #teaching #boardgames #boardgamedesign #podcast

Victoria Sherlock retells the story of how she went from studying politics, to becoming a financial crime analyst and finally how she landed into the role of an ISO Auditor where she gets to experience the multiple aspects of a company by looking at their processes.

#finance #business #politics

Ellen Bryan recalls her time as a fresh recruiter, the pros and cons of owning her own recruitment business and how that allowed her to infiltrate the world of sales in the technology market. Finally she talks a little about her current role at Panintelligence and gives a few tips about getting into sales.

#recruitment #sales #business #entrepernourship

Samantha Sherlock explains how she went from teaching art to a sales support job and, finally, how her constant quest for "not wanting to be bored" got her into marketing.

In this episode, we go further into the subject of marketing, talking a little bit more about what it's like to be one, some of the different types of marketing, how good analytical skills and tools are needed to make some sense of the data... among other tips.

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#marketing #sales #art #education

Luke Jones elucidates how his love for the outdoors got him into marketing which then got him into programming. He also explains how Northcoders got him his first job and eventually allowed him land his position at Sky.

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#marketing #softwaredevelopment #programming #outdoors

Diana Martins tells us how her designer work gave her the necessary connections to transition into doing what she loves: pastry and confectionery!

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#design #pastry

Greta Matulionyte tells us her journey from studying history, to restaurant management, to recruiter, to her current role as a software developer at Panintelligence.

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#restaurant #softwaredevelopment #recruitment

In this podcast I am joined by different people who tell the story of how they changed their vocation.

I hope their advice is useful and their journey inspires you.

You're not alone in your journey!