It’s Tuesday morning and I’m sitting in a hotel on my own, on my first day in San Francisco. Last Friday I made the mad decision to quit a perfectly good job as an Associate Interior Designer at a respected forward thinking commercial design company based in the gorgeous country surrounds of Shropshire, in England. From a company who I have been with for the last 8 years, have made great friends through and learnt a huge amount of skills. Ahhhhhhh what have done!
I’ve decided to set up on my own to create a business promoting living/raw foods combined with Interior Design and I’m in California heading for Fort Bragg to the Living Light centre for 7 weeks to learn a lot more about living/raw foods. I’m so excited about the whole adventure and wondering who I will meet and what I will do, learn and see. I’m still very far from setting up my business properly and the question is lingering at the back of my head - why leave a perfectly good job to face the hassles, heartache and stress of running and developing a business on my own? Who knows, only time will tell. All I can say at the moment - it feels right and I’m following my gut instinct.
I have been lucky enough to have meet up with Karen Knowler who I have hired as my business coach to help me through this adventure with the support of a group of lovely ladies who are all doing the same, creating their own individual niche businesses helping promote living foods. We are all here to stay and help change the way we think about our food and health.
I have decided to set up this blog to record my ventures going to California and progress of my new business! I have no idea of the exact content this blog will bring. It is a case of watch this space and see……………
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You've got the biggest balls of any blogger I've read to date taking a leap of faith from the safety of your day job to pursue your gut instinct. I heartily respect and congratulate you on your journey. As a man with similar thoughts of forging my own path, I have yet to culvate similar "groinus magnas", but I'm working up to it. Interestingly, I am too a Brit (Brighton) but now living in San Francisco...home to great food and even greater forward and diverse thinking. I am interested in raw foods (which led me to your blog originally) and have also been to the Alive restaurant. If you're still in town, I also recommend "Cafe Gratitude".
Good luck. I'll be following your progress, please keep posting.
Thank you! Your support means a lot.
It does seem I have plunged into the unknown and I have no idea of what the future holds! But it really feels like the right thing to do. In the sort time I have been here at Living Light my health feels improved enormously (less tired, more energetic) and it is great to be surrounded by so many like minded people of all ages and genders. It seems more and more people are becoming more interested in their health and getting very fed up of the quality of food that dominates us so much and contributes to so many health problems. I feel it is important that the raw food word needs to be recognised and understood lot more.
I wish you luck too in your journey.
Susanna
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