A theatre director applied her coaching techniques to corporate work, earning formal qualifications to launch a second business in her early 50s. She describes this shift as a call to adventure, not a crisis, when many women at that career milestone want to create greater impact.
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always done as a theater director is coaching people for performance. And I thought, well, what if I transfer that skill into more of a corporate space? Still coaching people for performance, but for personal transformation and their personal development as well. And so I migrated into that, and I did some study and got my qualifications in coaching and mentoring. And so that was then my, my second business, if you like. Now, by then I was in my early 50s. And that is significant in terms of our topic today. So many women do find they get to that, that kind of milestone, that significant milestone, and go, there's got to be more to what I'm doing. I've got to be able to create more of an impact. And that was a bit of a wake-up call for me. But more of a call to adventure rather than, yes, wake up, you know, what are you doing with your life? It wasn't that kind of— although there was a little bit