Sean: So Louis before we, before I asked you any of my questions, I'd like to know I saw in your profile that you - just like a lot of people today, started in the corporate world.

I started in the corporate world, but I ended up just staying there for five months before starting on my, my own business. Which I didn't know would be where it is today. I thought it would fail because it's my first time. But I want to hear, like, what is it like for you when you were in the corporate world?

Because now you're a life coach and we do - strangely, we'd have a lot of guests here. Some of them, even C-level executives right next to Warren Buffet who quit and became a speaker, and became a coach and a mentor. I don't know why we have a lot of that, but I'm happy because you guys are the ones who really want to help people.

So I want to hear it from your story. What happened?

Lou: Oh, for sure. I was in the corporate world for a lot longer than five months. I was in the corporate world for over 20 years straight out of uni. I started off life in the world of market research, consumer insight, and I absolutely loved it. I really loved it.

I was traveling the world. I was living in London. I was going to all these amazing cities, talking to amazing people life was good. It was only then probably, and that was probably, I was in my twenties then into my thirties and forties, I'd have my children by then. I married, feeling a bit more settled to the traveling wasn't as much and all the rest of it.

And it was really probably as I was approaching 40, that I just started to think, is this really it? Is this really it? Am I going to spend the next 20, 30 years getting out of bed and you know, not feeling fulfilled? I was then working for a very large global FMCG company. I had a horrible boss that I really disliked.

There was no mutual respect or anything there. I just didn't feel like the work I was doing was making any difference. You know, I was a very small cog in a huge, huge wheel, absolutely it. Me being able to make any kind of difference or impact was just not happening. And actually, what started my journey was as part of a sort of personal development program in this corporate job, we did a piece around purpose and what our purpose was.

And that actually woke me up to the fact that staying in the corporate world was not my purpose, that I had bigger, better things that were meant for me that I was meant to do. And with my background and being a qualitative researcher, talking to people, getting the best out of people, I realized then that I had to leave. I had to figure out what it was that I wanted to do.

And then finally, I opened and closed lots of doors. I explored different avenues that didn't work out, and that I didn't enjoy. And I think we have to do that in many respects, but that journey took me nearly five years to finally figure out what it was that I wanted to do.

And then I finally landed. And it's so obvious, it's one of those things that it's so obvious when it finally - you're finally confronted with it. I should coach people, you know, coaching other people to help them figure out their purpose and to help them find fulfillment in life. So they don't have to take five years to figure out why they're here.

And so that's what really started my journey and yeah, escape the corporate nine to five and haven't looked back.

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