Detouring

Chef to Digital Marketing - Alex's Journey

Alex started out in the kitchen and set up his first business (cafe/catering company) very early. After 10 years of working as a chef and struggling with side hustles for years, he managed to get a digital marketing company for coaches and consultants off the ground... to the moon [https://www.tothemoondigital.com.au/], one might say! Today we speak about the hospitality business, setting up a business from scratch, digital marketing and fatherhood. ---- Find out more: * To The Moon - Digital Marketing Services [https://www.tothemoondigital.com.au/] ---- #digital #marketing #hospitality #entrepreneur #chef #food #coaching #business #fatherhood

Teacher to OnlyFans Content Maker - Sarah's Journey

Sarah Juree always wanted to be a teacher and her dream came true. That is when she learned the true reality of teaching in the USA. Today we speak about sexuality, dating culture and women's rights and also the reality of the education system in the USA, how you can find yourself in a vicious cycle of poverty and how an awful event can turn your life around for the better. ---- Mentioned in this episode: * Donor's Choose [https://www.donorschoose.org/]: https://www.donorschoose.org/ More about Sarah: * Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/love_misssarah/]: https://www.instagram.com/love_misssarah/ * OnlyFans (+18) [https://onlyfans.com/love_misssarah_free/media]: https://onlyfans.com/love_misssarah_free/ * Twitter [https://twitter.com/SarahJuree]: https://twitter.com/SarahJuree ---- #arts #education #business #entertainment

Hospitality to Tech Sales: Thijs's Journey

Thijs van Gulik never really knew what he wanted to do. Somehow, he got himself into a small snackbar in the Netherlands, then to a country house in the USA and finally to The Ritz in the UK. After finding his home in the UK it was time to try different careers: from hospitality to recruitment to technology sales. Tune in to find out what each one of his careers actually entail. ---- Mentioned in this episode: * The Ritz's Wimbourne House (aka William Kent House) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbourne_House] * Orcan Intelligence [https://orcanintelligence.com/] * Panintelligence [https://panintelligence.com/] * Harrogate's St Wilfrid's Football Club [https://twitter.com/stwilfridsfc] ---- #sports #business #hospitality #restaurant #sales #technology

Miner to Software Engineer to Photographer: Steve's Journey

Steve Axford [https://steveaxford.smugmug.com/], The man behind the famous fungi footage on BBC's Planet Earth II [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p02544td/planet-earth-ii] and Fantastic Fungi [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81183477] and co-creator of Planet Fungi [https://www.planetfungi.movie/] joins me on the first episode after the holiday hiatus to tell his journey. Join us and listen to our conversation about mining in dangerous caves, the information technology sector in its infancy and the wonderful world of fungi. ---- Mentioned in this episode: * This is Colossal [https://www.thisiscolossal.com/] (and the original post that led to all this [https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/fantastic-fungi-steve-axford/]) * The Kunming Institute of Botany [http://english.kib.cas.cn/] (part of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences [https://english.ucas.ac.cn/]) * js13kGames [https://js13kgames.com/] See more of Steve's work: * on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/planet_fungi/] * on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/c/PlanetFungi] ---- #fungi #photography #timelapse #filmography #mining #technology #it #software

Scientist to Tapas Bar Owner: Ana's Journey

Abeja [https://abejatapasbar.com/] owner explains how she got into research in molecular biology and how after spending 20 years she decided to bring a piece of Granada to Manchester in the form of a tapas bar... just before COVID! Ana goes deep into what a scientist does in the field of molecular biology and later into how she got inspired to set up her tapas bar business. ---- Mentioned in this episode: * ERASMUS [https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/]; * Hatch [https://hatchmcr.com/]; * Abeja [https://abejatapasbar.com/]/ Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/abejatapasbar/?hl=en]/ Facebook [https://en-gb.facebook.com/abejatapas/] ---- #science #biology #research #foodindustry #restaurant #business