I Thought I Wanted This: Episode 2

Psst — this is from my new show, I Thought I Wanted This. Ditch the Ick grew up. I Thought I Wanted This is about what happens when the life you planned and the life you actually want stop being the same thing: careers, relationships, money, moving across the world and changing your mind out loud. There’ll still be the occasional dating story, but mostly it’s honest conversations with women who’ve been there (or are in the messy middle right now). If you liked hanging out here, come find us. Follow along on Instagram: @ithoughtiwantedthis. ----------------------------------- Ellie Kime thought she’d be a copywriter forever. Then the business she built for freedom started to feel like a trap. So she threw her copywriting offers a retirement party and started over with everyone watching. We get into how she knew it was time to go and why changing direction publicly can feel like letting people down. We also talk about what the messy middle actually looks like almost a year later: more joy, less income and a lot of experimenting. In this episode: Throwing your old offers a retirement party instead of quietly pivoting Telling intuition apart from anxiety when you have OCD Being happy in your business but not with it Why a part-time job alongside your business isn’t a failure Finding the through line in a career that looks all over the place About Ellie: Ellie Kime is a business personality strategist and the founder of Eleanor Mollie, where she helps small business owners put more of their personality forward to stand out from competitors (and robots alike). She’s the host of the Front & Centre podcast, an event MC, and has worked with businesses like [noths] and Pinterest. She doesn’t believe in the phrase “long story short,” and her absolute favourite thing in the world is 0.5 zoom photos. Website: eleanormollie.co.uk Instagram: @eleanor_mollie Podcast: Front & Centre Connect with us: Apply to be a guest: https://forms.gle/aumPddFB33yvBUxB6 Email: [email protected] Instagram: @ithoughtiwantedthis / Katie: @ladykatieabroad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices