228: Jane Barrett: A Lady Who Is Growing Her Business Day By Day

Published: Dec. 12, 2014, 5:01 a.m.

b'Todays guest is a lady working in the northern town of Harrogate in the UK, who is the founder of "The Career Farm", where she inspires people across the globe to not look for a career, but instead grow one.\\nYou see career farm, growing...yep it all makes sense.\\nShe doesn\'t believe that people are proactive enough in the way they go about earning a living,\\xa0 with the standard response to most people being the "Well it\'s a job isn\'t it" kind of response.\\nShe feels that we should be planning our development in the same way as a farmer plans what crops they will sow for maximum yield.\\nWe should be sowing the seeds that will help us reap bountiful rewards later on in our careers.\\nShe started her career as a Chartered Surveyor before re-training as a career coach, but in 1999 found her entrepreneurial spirit when she founded her\\xa0 first company, focusing on the supply of careers services and information products to Business Schools across the UK and Europe.\\nBut in June 2012 as her business grew more successful, her belief that there was more to offer the world, and of course more to come from herself led her to selling her stake in the company and creating the "Career Farm."\\nAnd it looks like she was right to do so, as with her well received book "If not now, when? How to take charge of your career", her top ranked podcast "Mission Driven Entrepreneurs" , and\\xa0 myriad of other things helping people to feel fulfilled in their careers, she is certainly busier than ever.\\nBut when did she realise that people needed to grow their careers, and being true to herself was she always growing her own?\\nAnd where does she see the biggest challenegs facing the working population nowadays?\\nWell let\'s find out as we bring onto the show, to start joining up dots, the one and only Jane Barrett'