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success for someone in their early
30s, the house, the car, and the stable
job, she found herself on a path she
had not truly chosen. “I had the house
set, the car, everything was fine,” she
recalls, “but I was burning out.” It led
to a powerful realisation, “Nobody is
coming to save you,” she says with
quiet intensity. “You have to make big
life changes for yourself.”
in the late 90s, just as the economy
began to turn. She was, by her own
admission, perfectly suited for the
corporate world. Systematic and
logical, she doesn’t like to “dilly-dally”.
“I’ve always been like this,” she laughs.
The career, however, was a different
story. “It was the one career I never
wanted to get into,” she states plainly.
Despite having all the markers of
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