The Every Year Itch Podcast

She had always known about her love affair with chocolate, but little did she know it would turn into a passion, a purpose, a business venture, complete with tasting and festivals. Nicola walked away from a career in conventional teaching to teach people about her love of chocolate.

Coach, speaker and author of the Lipstick Principles Amanda Brown had a great start in the corporate world when she was overcome with imposter syndrome. It lead her to take a huge leap of faith to leave a steady job behind to follow her calling to coach.

From photojournalist to PR, consulting and public speaker and futurist, Stefan has ‘jumped ship’ a number of times as he prefers to jump rather than be pushed. Motivated by wanting to learn, the love of freedom  and wanting to affect change, Stefan has carved out his own path for working differently.

Gera started a journey of living more consciously with less 8 years ago, spurred on by a school project of one of her children. It resulted in a huge life change for the whole family (of seven!), freeing themselves of clutter, to collect experiences and not things, as well as slow living. The minimalistic lifestyle even resulted in a business, a book and a new vocation.

Kim Adele wanted to be a hairdresser. In fact she tells anyone with pride that this is the only NVQ she has. But life took many turns and she now runs a business as a executive coach and laughs as she recalls they sometimes say "help they've let a hairdresser on the board!" How to overcome adversity and love yourself, how to allow people to 'borrow belief' and how to deal with the imbalances of life and stay -beautifully- true to yourself.

Dr Karen Freeberg understood the importance of social media before it reached its current popularity. She followed her "itch", pushed through the resistance and became a clear voice in a world of change.

Another amazing 6 interviews, this time with Samatha Kelly, Paul Ince, Jon Ferrara, Esther Jacobs, Joseph McQuire and the Pepperhustle girls Lynn & Martina, with an overarching theme of "don't be limited by the rules".

All these amazing interviewees are in business but found extraordinary ways of getting to success in the -sometimes- most unconventional of ways. Enjoy this round up of great advice and inspiration.

Esther felt it came down to a choice between Time and Money. She chose Time. Whilst most peple carried on studying and rolled into junior and then senior positions, Esther grabbed entrepreneurial opportunities anywhere in the world.

At one bizarre point, she was effectively "fired" from her home country the Netherlands for having been away too much. It led to a difficult three battle with out of date and slow changing systems. She is now officially a digital nomad, never held back by rules and proud to be the odd one out.

Paul had a safe job in the corporate world and didn't plan to start a business. But he grew increasingly unhappy working and earning money for other people and just coming away with the pat on the back.

In this Podcast Paul describes the highs and lows of running a company, but concludes to have a better life and to be a better person as a result of it. He is in charge of his time and able to be present as a single parent. Above all, he says people want you to succeed and it's amazing what help you get when you ask for it.

Life wasn’t perfect for Jon Ferrara but navigating across certain roadblocks in his life made him stronger. From early on he decided to walk the path of truth and knowledge. Jon achieved great entrepreneurial success and developed great ideas for the future of business, which he compares to keeping an ecological garden. Despite all he’s experienced and encountered, Jon feels his journey is about growing the soul and walking to his own drumbeat.