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Top International Women’s Day 2020 events for female career hustlers
There has never been a better time for women to escape unfulfilling jobs to do work that matters to them and the world. And it’s happening, right before our eyes. Bold, brave, bright women are taking the leap to quit unsatisfying jobs and work with progressive...
How to Get a Job in the Disruptive Food Industry
Food, glorious food! One of the world’s oldest industries; a constant throughout the ages. In the UK, we spend close to £100billion on it every year. With hundreds of thousands of brands saturating the market, it takes real tenacity and drive for small companies to...
The Startup Story of Killa Vanilla: Best Pals to Business Partners
As the old adage goes: 'Necessity is the mother of invention'. This certainly rings true in the case of Killa Vanilla's Dom - an alumnus of the Escape Startup Accelerator. While training for the British Indoor Rowing Championships, Dom kept falling foul of fiendish...
Silvia’s escape story – Trading Corporate Despair for Continental Delight
After moving to London in 2010, Silvia found herself stuck in a corporate job which was ruining both her happiness and health. She left this behind only to find herself in a job which just didn’t quite inspire her. A career change seemed like a pipe dream. Bored, and...
How to Get a Career in Sustainable Fashion
This week sees designers from all over the world congregate in the British capital for London Fashion Week. By now, we know what to expect: boundaries will be pushed, trends defined and legacies created. But while glitz & glamour have always been a mainstay of the...
Craig’s escape story – 12 lessons from quitting the day job and starting a business
Late last year, Craig Barber quit his job as a designer to be a full-time entrepreneur. He gave himself 3 months runway to build, launch and get paid by Logobly, his logo maker startup. Craig had dabbled in side projects before. But had never changed careers to focus...
24 top tips to making a brave career change
Do you want to escape from unfulfilling work? Are you craving freedom, passion, autonomy? Feeling a need to be more connected to your work and lead a more meaningful life? If so, you’re not alone! At Escape The City, we have helped thousands of people build 21st...
Leaving London: In desperate need of a lifestyle change
London. The roaring city. Immortalised on the silver screen. Entrenched in the dreams of millions. From a young age, many of us learn to revere London as the epitome of success - a goliath on the world stage. The place you should be if you want to ‘make it’. But...
How to live your life adventurously
Anna McNuff had a very “normal” job, working in an office 9 to 5 and felt completely unfulfilled. One day, whilst sitting at her desk and having a tedious fight with a PowerPoint presentation, Anna felt the urge to throw her computer out the window. Anna thought -...
Finding Work That Matters: Tips from escape heroes
Many of us know we want to do something different, but we’re not quite sure where to start. Some fritter between different techniques, unguided and unsure. Others get so overwhelmed by competing philosophies that they feel completely stuck and don’t start at all. The...
Experiment bravely to make a successful career change
Ready. Aim. Fire! This is how we should approach our Escape, right? Make sure you’re ready. Carefully prepare until you know you’re ready. Then (and only then) start moving! It’s easy to get stuck in our heads around the introspection, theory and navel gazing...
5 minutes with: Alex Stephany, Founder & CEO of Beam
Beam was founded just over two years ago, but in that time they’ve already transformed the lives of 159 homeless people. The social enterprise has crowdfunded over £600,000 to give those sleeping rough - and without permanent accommodation - the opportunity to achieve...