20/06/2024
Here's a very, VERY, brief overview of my adulting journey so far 👇
2005 - Left School 🎓
2005/6 - Went to college
2007 - Started seeing the college therapist
2007 - Focused on the wrong things and the wrong people, drinking and taking drugs to cover up trauma-induced depression. Dropped out of college
2008 - Went into banking thinking I'd like to be a mortgage advisor
2010 - Left banking and started my 'dream job' in estate agency
2012 - Promoted to co-run the new flagship office with a focus on providing training and marketing
2011 - Started side hustle 1: Unique Crafting Co (Later Unique Weddings which I successfully grew over 8 years)
2012 - Bought my first house
2013 - Started side hustle 2: Ann Summers parties
2014 - Started studying for my CeMap, which I later decided, due to my hate for numbers, wasn't for me 🤦♀️🤣
2014 - Had what I can only describe as a break down. My mental health was in a very poor state.
2015 - Took a job as a newbie recruiter
2016 - Got married 👰
2016 - Got promoted to Managing Consultant
2017 - Fell pregnant & 9 months later, after a very traumatic birth, had a beautiful little girl
2017/18 - Studied marketing properly (whilst battling new-motherhood, PTSD and anxiety)
2018 - Landed my first in-house marketing job with Jacobs Steel and will be forever grateful to them for taking a punt on me
2021 - Left my husband 💔
2021 - Took a new job as in-house Marketing Director for a recruitment agency
2022 - That business gave me the opportunity to qualify as a Mental Health First Aider 💚
2022 - Was given the option to go it alone, and took the risk: Magenta MAD was born
2024 - Happily single, with a beautiful, healthy & confident little girl, a growing marketing, branding & design agency, and the healthiest mental well-being I've ever experienced
The road to 'success', however you define it, is not a straightforward one.
There is a lot of crap on social media that makes things look easy, hides peoples struggles and doesn't reflect real life.
To me, I am hugely successful 💪🏆
I've overcome numerous personal and professional challenges.
I have the most beautiful daughter who I become more proud of every day.
I count myself lucky to have the freedom and the money to spend time with her.
And I have an amazing network of hugely supportive friends, colleagues, clients and connections - without whom, Magenta MAD wouldn't exist.
You define what success means to you.
And if things are moving slightly slower than you'd like them to, don't panic.
Everything will fall into place.
Life isn't a straight line.
You just need to keep going.
P.S. If you're a young person reading this and have never listened to Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free, may I suggest this is the next song you add to your playlist 💃