When I grow up I want to be. The career podcast

In this week's episode Lynsey is in conversation with Lisa Curran, owner of Currans Homes. If you've ever browsed Right Move, bought or sold a house, or even just dreamed of your ideal home, this episode is for you.

Join Lynsey as she uncovers the behind-the-scenes workings of the estate agency industry and learn how Lisa prioritises relationships with vendors and exceptional service for her clients. Discover Lisa's journey from corporate banking to taking over her sister's estate agency and transforming it into the successful business it is today.

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When Lynsey met Jane Hanson at the Women of the Year Awards lunch and learned that Jane was a qualified teacher, an educational consultant and wellbeing practitioner, a writer, a broadcaster, inspirational project leader, a soprano in the London Philharmonic choir, the Founder and Director of a global project; One Day One Choir, a former senior researcher in nuclear physics as well as being part of the Women of the Year management team, she knew she wanted to record an episode with her.

In this weeks episode you will hear a rich career history full of interesting stories and life lessons and some incredible advice to take away.

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Lynsey is joined today by Sally Orange who is an endurance runner and adventure athlete who has completed a marathon in every continent dressed as a piece of fruit. Sally is also a physiotherapist with over 20 years in the military, a mental health campaigner, has run more than 80 marathons raising money for charity and has recently been awarded her MBE.

Sally treats Lynsey to a really honest conversation explaining how an accident which resulted in a broken leg was the starting point to her career.

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Have you ever wondered what you would get if you crossed a Lawyer, a Scientist and a business person? In this weeks' episode Andrea Brewster explains how this mix would make a great Patent Attorney.

Have you ever wondered how to become a Head Coach at Elite level? In this episode, Lynsey talks to Jess Thirlby former England netball international and now England Netball Head Coach about her career journey from player to coach and everything in between.

From representing England at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 to last year coaching the first England team other than Australia and New Zealand to play in the World Cup Final since 1995, Lynsey gains an insight in to life as England Netball Head Coach, hears what drives Jess to strive for success and learns what Jess hopes for the future of The Roses.

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Lynsey Hyslop explains the exciting reason why she has been quiet lately; being in training camp with the England Women's rugby team The Red Roses, however she reassures listeners that there will be some exciting episodes being released in the next few weeks.

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What job could you do if you enjoy working outdoors, you want to educate all ages about their part in habitat conservation as well as having the requirement of being able to use a chainsaw to maintain the countryside (sensibly, with a licence I might add!). In this week’s episode Lynsey learns all about the varied role of a Countryside Ranger from Jean Cheadle who has been in her role for 20 years. Jean explains how her career journey started with her studying visual art and geography at university, mainly to avoid making the decision of what career she wanted to go in to, however, this was in fact the first step to her longstanding love for the countryside. It was the door that opened her up to some valuable volunteering opportunities and to a job where she can have a tangible positive impact in protecting the natural world around her.

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Some people may be more familiar with this role being referred to as 'Ground Staff' and with the industry being reportedly made up by only 2% of women, some may refer to it with the job title of 'Groundsman', however in conversation with Lynsey, Meg Lay explains how she wants to use her role as Sports Turf Professional at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club to help ignite some interest in the industry by other women. Meg doesn't do things by half either, as one way to promote the role and raise the awareness of it as a career choice was when she, early this year, made history by spearheading an all female ground staff team to become the first female to curate an international wicket. How this came about and what was involved was a highlight of the episode for your host Lynsey.

Meg talks about how being part of a team, spending your days outside doing a physical job, having the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the best athletes in the sport are just some of the many positives of the job. Meg talks with passion about her job and the industry and how the fire in her belly turned out to be from working in Cricket, not as a firefighter which she initially considered as a career choice.

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Have you ever wondered how you can become a qualified Pilot and work for a global airline flying all around the world and get to call that your job? In this episode, Lynsey has a open and honest conversation with Laura Azancot who does just that. After starting her academic career in psychology at University where she initially wanted to train as a Clinical Psychologist, Laura talks about how after not quite getting the grades needed to be accepted on to a Masters she decided she wanted to travel the world and so became cabin crew which was the first step in to her flying career and love of aviation. Fast forward a couple of years (and a lot of training and tears!) Laura became a qualified Pilot, went back to being cabin crew after the credit crunch, piloted private jets in Africa for 4 years to then become a Pilot for British Airways...yes, a really interesting career journey.

Laura gives a genuine account of her time as a Cadet training to become a pilot as well as the hard decisions she has had to make during her career to enable her to do the job she loves whilst also having a family, all of this she has done without ever even being interested in aviation until she was in her 20's!

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