EP015 | City life to Rural Wales. A couple’s career and life change story, with Alison O’Leary

Dream Chasers

In this episode:

A slightly different episode for you this time! My fabulous friend and podcast strategist and producer, Shelley Röstlund, interviews me about what drove mine and my late husband’s own huge career and life change.

Back in 2012, together, we made the decision to throw everything up in the air and totally reinvent what our work and personal lives looked like.

It saw us leave a central London lifestyle for a home in the Welsh mountains, and big careers we’d invested years in for new jobs in completely new fields.

Several people thought we were mad and quite a few thought we were making a huge mistake, but 12 years later, I’m sharing the story, warts and all, about what happened, how we made the transition, and what it did for us.

Shelley helps me unpick our story. I hope it gives you some inspiration if you’ve been feeling less than enthused about where life and work sits for you right now.

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𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Shelley Röstlund is a systems-led personal brand strategist working with knowledge experts… those who teach, educate, consult, advise or mentor others. Her specialism is in uncovering her clients’ marketable genius – their unique gifts which they were born to bring into the world.

South African born and British-grown, Shelley has worked with 150+ brands across 30+ industries through her consultancy and agency work. She leads Harbour 32, a family-centred marketing agency which focusses on personal brand strategy and podcast show positioning and production.

𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗢’𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗢:

Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.

She’s the founder and designer of the Work Wonderland™ process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.

Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.

Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.

When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.

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