76. Four Lessons From My Corporate Career That Set Me Up For Success in Business

In today’s episode, I’m sharing four lessons I’ve taken with me from my corporate career that have genuinely served me and set me up for success in business.


I wanted to do this episode for two reasons:

1. If you’re new here, I want you to hear some of my story — my background, where I come from, and the kinds of environments I worked in before becoming a coach.
2. People often ask me why I chose business coaching, how I feel qualified, and what actually led me into this work. This episode answers that directly.


Before coaching, I worked in research and advisory management consulting, HR, recruitment, and with top-tier law firms — Magic Circle, Silver Circle, and the UK’s top hundred. So when I say “corporate,” I mean corporate.






Across those years, I learned things about people, performance, resilience, communication, pressure, and responsibility that I didn’t realise were shaping me… until I started my coaching business.






And in this episode, I walk you through four of the biggest lessons that still guide how I run my business, how I coach my clients, and how I think about money, growth, and ownership.




What This Episode Covers

• Why I chose business and psychology at university and how that decision ended up being exactly right — even though I had no idea what I wanted to “be” at the time
• The rebel streak that’s always been in me and how it shaped the way I operated in corporate
• How HR led me into recruitment and why talking to people, understanding them, and being externally facing changed everything
• The moment I switched from a salaried role to a salary + commission role — and why that shift became one of the most important money lessons I’ve ever received
• The four key lessons corporate taught me that I still rely on every day in business
• Why these lessons matter even more for coaches who are transitioning out of corporate or trying to shed the employee identity
• How all of this eventually led me to business coaching and why these foundations are core to the work I do with my clients






If You Want Support With Your Coaching Business


Whether you’re coming out of corporate, navigating the employee-to-CEO identity shift, or trying to build the structure and momentum you know you’re capable of in your life coaching business, 1:1 coaching and mentorship is where we do this work together.






DM me on Instagram and we’ll explore where you’re at, where you want to go, and whether 1:1 is the right next step for you.




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