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

Lynsey was treated to an in depth exploration of Floss Andrews' career which spans 20 years in Football working for the likes of The Premier League at clubs such as Chelsea, QPR and Norwich. Although the thrill and excitement of being pitch side at every home game in her role of Match Manager or the variety of work she experienced when working with huge brands such as Barclays, Nike, Budweiser and Lucozade Sport in her commercial partnership and sponsorship roles were hard ones to give up, Floss gives a great insight in to her career journey and her career choices along the way.

You will hear clear explanations of Floss's career choices, descriptions of the skills and experience that she learned along the way and you will find out how the connections she created with each and every role that she had enabled her to have the courage to retrain as a Mindset Coach and start her own business, specialising in football, with the little help of a Life Coach.

Floss now works with people in a range of roles within the football industry helping them create balance to help extend their time in football by avoiding burnout.

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A Corporate Illustrator is a great example of the type of job that this podcast was created for. Lynsey has a great, lengthy conversation with Alana Patchett who is a Director at Purple Monster. Her main role there, since joining in 2010, has been creating animations, online virtual environments, pictures, process maps, doing real time scribing and generally bringing the artistic visual eye to Purple Monster. She helped start and grow the art department of Purple Monster where they use a vast array of creative tools, techniques, skills and experience to ensure a businesses message lands effectively and with impact.

Alana is a visual person who always enjoyed sketching and drawing when she was younger and in this episode, she explains how this has led her to working with international corporate clients sketching meetings and conferences (as well as many other things) bringing their words to life. And to think her art teacher said that she wouldn't get a job within art!

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Have you ever wondered how you get to be the person who works with high performance teams, Olympic athletes or managing a group of highly talented Sport Psychologist practitioners? This week, Lynsey has a great in depth conversation with Dr Kate Hays, Head of Women's Psychology at The FA, where one of her main priorities is working with and supporting the Senior Lionesses.

Dr Kate Hays’ experience is extensive and she treats us to a fantastic conversation where she walks us through her career journey in extensive detail and fantastic descriptive reasoning behind all decisions that have helped lead her through her career to where she is now. She also explains how, even if you don't have a final destination in mind, being curious, saying Yes and taking opportunities even if they scare you, can lead to an extremely exciting and fulfilling career…. and by embracing your interests, it can help even the most reluctant academic to complete a Masters, PhD and be highly respected in their field.

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Have you ever thought about what's involved to get milk from cow to coffee? This week Lynsey talks to Mary Selby (formerly Mary Ankers) who took over her family's dairy farm after her Dad actively encouraged her not to. After University Mary became a qualified Rural Surveyor and started out a career in supporting other farmers in helping them build, grow and sustain their farms. This gave her an insight in to how it could be done and so she decided to take this learning back to her family farm with plans for increasing profitability as well as helping others in the industry. Mary has now featured in The Times, The Guardian and other farming publications, sharing her expertise in the area.

Mary shares her career journey and explains that although she calls her self a Dairy Farmer, she is in fact much more than that.

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Have you ever wondered how realistic TV drama's with characters as Firearm Police Officer's are?

Have you ever wondered if working with children in a previous career could provide you with skills that you will fall back on when working in Firearms?!

This week Lynsey talks to Sarah who dreamt of being a police officer as a child and is now working in her dream job. With adrenaline coursing through her body day and night; as not only is she a Firearms officer, she is also a rugby player within the Premier 15's Women's Rugby Premiership, Sarah talks us through the intensive training required to get in to Firearms, what unknown challenges and different environments she can come up against on any given day at work and how saying Yes to opportunities and taking advantage of career choices can lead you in to some amazing opportunities.

From having to use quick decision making skills both in work and on the rugby pitch, how skills and knowledge that she has gained from general life experience has helped her in her career to how she has to compartmentalise some of the sights that she is exposed to in order to help her switch off from work at the end of her shift, Sarah gives Lynsey an insight in to her career journey.

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Have you ever wondered how someone can travel the world, go scuba diving every day and get paid for it?

This week Lynsey talks to Kayleigh who is a PADI scuba diving staff instructor. Kayleigh has worked all over the world including the Seychelles, The British Virgin Islands and Utila in Honduras, though she insists that she doesn't spend all of her time on the beach and just jumping in to the ocean to cool down!

From trying scuba diving on a family holiday when she was younger, gaining a Biology Conservation degree from Plymouth University, to teaching kids and young adults how to scuba dive on a yacht, Kayleigh gives Lynsey an insight in to her career journey.

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Hello and welcome to When I grow up I want to be, the career podcast. If you have ever heard what someone does for a living and you’ve thought ‘how on earth do you get in to a job like that’ or you’ve wondered how someone actually gets paid for doing such a fun job, then this could be the podcast for you.

I’m Lynsey Hyslop and for the last 15 years I’ve been working with individuals ranging from elite athletes, Olympians and serving prisoners on their personal and professional development, to give them an insight in to different industries, roles and careers and I’m a personal development specialist who just wants to open up the knowledge people have around their career options and the routes in to them.

In this podcast you’ll be hearing conversations with women who are out there doing the jobs that we’re interested in learning more about, and I’ll be helping you to explore different careers by finding out how they got in to their industry and their roles, what skills, experience and knowledge they’d recommend and also give you an insight in to what their job is like day in day out to help you get a feel of what it would be like if you actually got the job that you wanted When you grow up.

If you’re thinking about your next career move, if you’re curious as to what else might be out there or even if you’re just interested to hear peoples stories, then I’d hope this podcast has some inspiration for you.

I hope you enjoy. Here goes....