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Time for an introduction
Last Friday a completely bonkers thing happened. My Friday film caught the wave of the YouTube algorithm and over the weekend 50,000 (yes fifty thousand - fifty times more than usual!) people watched it.
People from all over the world watched it, and they left comments and got in touch and it was wonderful.
So I thought that I should really do an introduction video that explains who I am, what I do and how I got here, through in incredibly wiggly career path that only now seems to be making sense.
It is also an honest account of where things have gone wrong. It is for people who have watched their dreams evaporate, people wondering whether to take the leap from a job that they no longer love, and for people who wonder if they are wandering and lost.
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