Prime examples

Have you got a story that would inspire others?

Taking a chance and doing something completely different can be very daunting at any age. If you are approaching or are beyond 50, change can be even more challenging. But for many – whether or not they saw it coming - this is what life, and circumstances, dictate. It may be redundancy, it may be divorce, it may be inadequate funds to see you through, or it may be the horror of projecting your mind into the future and thinking “is this it?”

Whatever the reason, you're not alone. Somebody somewhere is in the same boat and, indeed, may have been there before you, met the challenge head on and emerged with a lifestyle and attitude that now completely outshines what they had before.

Click on each link below to see our first inspiring stories:

	Dave Wynne: Creating a successful self-employed future Seeing which way the wind is blowing
	Clifford Allison: taking a brave step into acting From the bar to the bard
	Peter Calver: MD of LostCousins Turning a personal passion into a thriving business
	Suzy Cooper: founder of Singular Travel Achieving a better deal for people who travel alone
	Eve and Peter Davies of Cambrian Routes Ltd  - award-winning tour company founders
	Gina Krupski, founder of Pink Camellia -  From chartered accountant to online retailer
	Hazel Reed, HR Consultant -  Champion of later life working
	Judy Rich: Retailer to founder of Rich Coaching -  Long Tall Sally founder lives her dreams.
	Lois Sealey: owner of Home Base Holidays Taking an existing business to an exciting new stage
	Derek Ward of Molly Maid - finding a new future through franchising

Choice, chance or circumstance?

Of course, the change in your life may also result from deliberate choice. Perhaps you made a decision to make a radical career change, to undertake some physical challenge or adventure you’d only ever dreamt of, to move abroad, or to completely alter your lifestyle in some other hugely significant way. If so, we’d love to hear about it.

What we want to do here is share examples of others who have taken up the challenge. It may be via newspaper or magazine articles that we refer to, books we can recommend or mini case studies. The objective is to take note, be inspired and be determined and to learn from the experience of these role models – both in terms of what has gone well for them and their mistakes along the way.

So if you would like to share your story with us for possible publication on the site, please do get in touch. (Although we are in awe if your name is Rowling, Branson or Gates, your stories are well documented and possibly not immediately relevant to in my primers.)

We are hoping eventually to collect your stories together and publish them as a book, so do contact us as soon as possible. Click here to see the details we need  - and if you have friends, family or colleagues with inspiring stories you think they would be willing to share, please refer them to us too.