Detouring: Recent Episodes
Tiago Correia
A series of interviews with people who changed their careers.
[Currently on break - Will be back in September!]
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, 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
digital #marketing #hospitality #entrepreneur #chef #food #coaching #business #fatherhood
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
More about Sarah:
- OnlyFans (+18)
arts #education #business #entertainment
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 aspects of each one of his careers actually entail.
Mentioned in this episode:
- The Ritz's Wimbourne House (aka William Kent House)
- Orcan Intelligence
- Panintelligence
- Harrogate's St Wilfrid's Football Club
Steve Axford, The man behind the famous fungi footage on BBC's Planet Earth II and Fantastic Fungi and co-creator of Planet Fungi 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 (and the original post that led to all this)
- The Kunming Institute of Botany (part of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- js13kGames
See more of Steve's work:
- on Instagram
- on Youtube
fungi #photography #timelapse #filmography #mining #technology #it #software
Abeja 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;
- Hatch;
- Abeja / Instagram / Facebook
science #biology #research #foodindustry #restaurant #business
Special episode today with Melanie Parker, the founder of Graft Talent. She works a lot with talent that wants to move from whatever area they're working in into the technology sector.
Among her advice, she also describes her many twists and turns on her journey from being a hairdresser to founding her recruitment company.
Mentioned in this episode: * The Open University; * Northcoders; * Google Digital Garage; * freeCodeCamp; * Leeds Becket University; * Leeds Digital Festival; * Udemy; * TechUPWomen
technology #recruitment #hairdresser
From writing software, to project management, to writing about board games, to finally owning his own boardgame design company: Automa Factory, Morten describes his journey and gives a bit of insight into the board gaming industry and what's so different about solo board games..
In this episode, Morten also highlights how one really needs to look after their own mental health.
Resources mentioned in this podcast: * Thematic Solitaires for the Spare Time Challenged; * Breaking Into Board Games; * BoardGameGeek
boardgamedesign #softwaredevelopment #projectmanagement
She speaks of art and she creates it - Lana Pajdas tells me her story of how she started as an art historian to becoming involved in social media for heritage sites until she finally found her passion for illustration and education for illustration. You can follow her on her instagram.
art #history #marketing
From dreaming of being a veterinarian to practising physiotherapy to setting up her interior design business (Culinary Architecture), Heidi walked me through her journey and, along the way, she gives a little insight into the many aspects of her careers, coupled with pearls of advice.
health #design #business
This time I got to talk to Alice who started out in the backstage of the entertainment industry as a Stage Manager. She tells how that role got her to see the UK and also different parts of the world. After completing the Northcoders bootcamp, she now works as a Software Developer, wrangling code instead of props and actors.
entertainment #theatre #softwaredevelopment #programming
Gabe Barrett joins me to talk about how he went from playing (american) football in college to doing charity missions with the homeless and how working with orphans in Honduras eventually led him to get involved with the board game community, first via the Board Game Design Lab (podcast & community) and later as a board game designer.
americanfootball #football #charity #teaching #boardgames #boardgamedesign #podcast
Victoria Sherlock retells the story of how she went from studying politics, to becoming a financial crime analyst and finally how she landed into the role of an ISO Auditor where she gets to experience the multiple aspects of a company by looking at their processes.
finance #business #politics
Ellen Bryan recalls her time as a fresh recruiter, the pros and cons of owning her own recruitment business and how that allowed her to infiltrate the world of sales in the technology market. Finally she talks a little about her current role at Panintelligence and gives a few tips about getting into sales.
recruitment #sales #business #entrepernourship
Samantha Sherlock explains how she went from teaching art to a sales support job and, finally, how her constant quest for "not wanting to be bored" got her into marketing.
In this episode, we go further into the subject of marketing, talking a little bit more about what it's like to be one, some of the different types of marketing, how good analytical skills and tools are needed to make some sense of the data... among other tips.
Resources mentioned in this podcast: * Get Into Teaching
marketing #sales #art #education
Luke Jones elucidates how his love for the outdoors got him into marketing which then got him into programming. He also explains how Northcoders got him his first job and eventually allowed him land his position at Sky.
Also mentioned in this podcast: * Codecademy; * Leeds Mountaineering Club
marketing #softwaredevelopment #programming #outdoors
Diana Martins tells us how her designer work gave her the necessary connections to transition into doing what she loves: pastry and confectionery!
Mentioned in this episode:
- Portuguese custard tarts;
- "Queijadas" - those cheese-based tarts;
- Fresh cheese - turns out you can get this here!
design #pastry
Greta Matulionyte tells us her journey from studying history, to restaurant management, to recruiter, to her current role as a software developer at Panintelligence.
Resources mentioned in this podcast: * Code First Girls
restaurant #softwaredevelopment #recruitment
In future episodes I will be joined by various guests who will tell the story of how they changed their vocation and hopefully inspire you. Episodes starting in January!