Heather ran a finance team of six and had the Sunday scaries every week for years. Watch the Manhattan study she designed from her home in Toronto — and hear why she waited six weeks before she'd even book the call.
Up at six, out the door at seven, commuting in for back-to-back month-end reviews and not home until seven at night. A mortgage, two kids in high school, and the Sunday scaries every week — a career that mattered enormously to her family and not at all to her.
She'd redone every home they'd moved into and kept a quiet Pinterest board of mid-century modern rooms. Her sister nudged her for years. The thing standing in the way wasn't ability — it was the belief that changing careers in your late forties isn't what someone like her does.
“If someone like me can do it in her late forties, with a family and responsibilities — can you start a second career? Yes, you can.
A passion for interiors, and the decision to finally do something with it. We'll help you build the business around it.
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