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Passion Stories with Free To Flourish
Welcome to the Passion Stories Podcast, a conversational series that features people who have made career transitions into work they feel fulfilled with, or started their own passion business.
We talk about when they decided to make the change, why they do the work they do, what helped them overcome obstacles with the transition, and any tips that they would give to others sitting on the idea of making these big changes.
People from the environmental, social change, health and wellness, and creative industries come on to share their story in hopes to inspire others to go after their own professional dreams.
Rachel Fry is a Psychology Trainer, Teacher, and Coach. Her work is focused on helping people with mental performance, leadership development, and career growth. She has her own company, Free To Flourish, and partners with different organizations, companies, universities, and athletes to support their leadership and teams. Rachel has a behavioral science master's in Applied Positive Psychology and experience in multiple sports as a high performing athlete. She is also a VP and leads the Professional Development team of a DC environmental nonprofit organization.
For more on her work and to connect with Rachel: www.free-to-flourish.com
Passion Stories with Free To Flourish
Plant Design Specialist: Liam McNamara
In this episode I talk with Liam McNamara, a Plant Design Specialist who worked with me last year when he left his job as a social media manager for a local cafe. At that time Liam knew he wanted to be doing work that he was more interested in and has some ideas of what he might want to do, but wasn't quite sure what to do next.
Fast forward to now and Liam is running his own plant design business! Plants evolved as a passion of Liam’s when he moved down to Florida in 2018 and was exposed to so many of the different tropical plants that thrive in that environment year round. I really have not met anyone else who loves and knows as much about potted plants for your in home design.
Liam shared the importance of being able to talk through your initial work ideas with a coach and how that helped him realize the work he ultimately wanted to do. After working together with the 3 month coaching program, Liam was able to bring his idea of doing a plant business to life. Liam also learned about his natural strengths, one of the foundational practices of positive psychology, and how to best use them in his daily business tasks.
If you have any plant questions or are looking for tips, you can check out @home_tropic and message him! Liam is happy to help and offer up plant advice. Liam also has an Etsy shop where he sells unique plant cuttings that can be mailed directly to your home.
Consider checking out the Passion and Purpose program if you are looking to make a career transition into more purposeful work or have been sitting on a business idea that you want to launch: https://www.free-to-flourish.com/passionandpurpose
To book a call to learn more about the program:
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