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Founder of Bikini Fling, a bikini company with a mission to encourage bold acts of confidence, and helping girls to find their perfect bikini yet. Producing beautifully cut, mix and match bikinis ... Read Escape Story

Alex Soskin

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From asset management to social start-up

Alex Soskin spent 7 years looking after investment structures for rich individuals and large corporates. He always knew he shou...

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United Kingdom

Come to Hub Westminster! This is a great place to connect like-minded people who are interested in making a difference. Our community is growing and becoming more interesting every day. Read Escape Story

Timo Schmidt

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Quitting hedge funds to start Gousto.co.uk

Timo Schmidt and James Carter escaped the hedge fund world to set up Gousto, an online food company that let's you choose recip...

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United Kingdom

Intern with us! It's fun and for us it's great to get people on board who want to escape the city. Read Escape Story

Rekha Mehr

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Ex Amazon employee walks out of the jungle and into the kitchen

Rekha left her role as Buying Manager at the world's largest e-tail giant, Amazon, to start a project a little closer to her he...

Sebastian 'Bash' Redford

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Forza Win!

I have just quit my job heading up a marketing department for a social network to start a pizza supper club on a roof in Shored...

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United Kingdom

We are probabaly going to be running Pizza Masterclasses up there which will include how to work a wood fired oven and, if we can get Terry back we might even do a 'how to build a pizza oven' maste... Read Escape Story

Lucy Gilliam

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Government scientist jumps ship to trade fare by sail

Dr Lucy Gilliam jumped ship from a permanent job in science policy advice in government to board the good ship Irene to sail ar...

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United Kingdom

I'm happy to connect with members and share my story via social media or my blog. I'll be speaking at various events so get in touch if interested in attending a talk. Also a few of us from the cre... Read Escape Story

Kate Andrews

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Around the world in 80 ways

Kate refused to believe that travelling the world had to involve flying. And that is how she found herself on-board a cargo shi...

Sam Wood

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Escaping the 9-5 to become documentary presenter and cycle guide around Europe

I escaped 9-5 work to make cycling expedition documentaries with my two brothers and run a cycle touring company.