Not advice.
A return to alignment.
I started with a question, not a career plan: why do some people change, and others stay stuck doing the same thing for years, even when they desperately want something different?
That question is basically what my Philosophy degree at King’s College London was, even if nobody puts it on the syllabus that way. Philosophy doesn’t teach you facts. It teaches you to pull a belief apart until you find out whether it’s actually true, or just something you inherited. I got hooked on that process, and I never really stopped applying it, even after I left the lecture halls in 2022.
I went looking for the answer in the body first. As a fitness actor and model, and later certified in Boxing Fundamentals and Level 2 Fitness Instruction, I learned what the body is actually capable of once you stop negotiating with it.
Then I went looking for the answer in other people, then in systems. Sales roles at MercyWorldwide taught me how to ask for something meaningful and mean it, and by 2022 I was leading a team, then heading up Athletic Partnerships & Revenue, learning that people move for trust, not spreadsheets. Later, as Sales and Operations Manager at Energie Fitness, I picked up Advanced Sales and Mental Models For Business as formal training, because I wanted language for patterns I’d only felt intuitively until then: motivation without structure collapses fast, but structure without motivation never gets built at all.
From there it was property at Foxtons, then fast-moving business development at Flatpay and Standby24, training in the Art of Negotiation along the way. Different industries, same lesson underneath: every business problem is eventually a people problem wearing a disguise.
“Real change is never just physical, or just mental, or just emotional. It’s all four, moving together.”
And now, the circle has closed. As a Partner with The Juice Plus+ Company and as a Holistic Coach at Lumen, I’m back to the body again, except this time with everything else I’ve learned about belief, trust, structure, and people sitting underneath it. That’s the real timeline. Not a list of job titles, but the same question, asked across a decade of different rooms, until the answer became obvious. That’s the whole idea behind Lumen.