From corporate marketing to health & wellbeing business owner

Keen to stay busy after losing her job, Lisa Richardson gave her a friend a hand at home. It was to be the beginning of a successful new career…

Tania shares her inspiring journey of overcoming adversity and reinventing herself—twice—while balancing the demands of family life and her evolving career…

After 25 years as a global brand director in the pharmaceutical industry, Ian took on a franchise to start his own adult home care business. Here’s what he told us…

When her role as an in-house translator was threatened by AI, Charlotte followed her passion of becoming a teacher. Here’s what she told us…

Mike Mansfield became CEO of charity Pro Age after being made redundant from his corporate research role after 17 years. Mike shares how he is now doing something he loves…

After being furloughed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tracey took redundancy and overcame her fears to make a brave and successful career change. This is her story…

After 20 years in marketing, Nathalie Hayes used voluntary redundancy as a springboard to starting her own cooking business. Watch her career story below…

Rachael moved from a high-pressured job in design and advertising to a brand new, and family-friendly, role as a sports therapist. Here’s what she told us…

After some big life changes at 50, Mags Wright left her career in banking to pursue her passion by retraining as a garden designer! Here’s what she told us…

Julia’s confidence was low after a nine-year career break, but it came back quickly thanks to the incredible reassurance, support and coaching got from Career Returners…

Roquel Guy-Miller moved from healthcare to hospitality to get more time with her children and enjoy a work-life balance. She tells us why age does not limit her…

Asha Patel wanted a new challenge after a ten-year career break and flexible working helped to make this possible. Here’s what she told us…

Lucy Johnson quit her job as head of foreign languages to join the financial services industry where she was thrilled by the incredible support and freedom she enjoyed…

Roslin Macdonald left the high-powered corporate world to pursue her original dream of working in the care sector. This is her story of building her private practice…

Zak shares the highs and lows of finding the right way back into work in his 50s, after an unconventional career journey…

Benvon Crumpler left her corporate role in 2019 and struggled her way through COVID and menopause before joining a business she had long admired…

Dianne Clark Buchanan retrained to teach English as a foreign language and loves the freedom it gives her