This week hear from me about my story. From starting at zero, to building my jewellery business, creating the London Jewellery School and Jewellers Academy to scaling to a £500k a year business. When I first started out I couldn’t have even imagined that being possible! Find out more and some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way in this week’s podcast.    EPISODE RECAP   I started my first real business back in 2008. I had never considered that you could actually be a jeweller (1:51) I wasn’t making quite enough and I was thinking about ways to diversify my income. In one course about teacher training I found that I wanted to be a teacher (4:51) The teaching business became the London Jewellery School - one of the worlds largest jewellery training centres  (6:23) Something I hadn’t considered with all of these businesses was what the day-to-day would be like. The money was coming in but I was exhausted and that was not the dream that I had (8:09) Even when things feel like a disaster, it may be pushing you in the right direction (11:14) And then I had another disaster (11:50) There were also lots of incredible things - business awards, programs, etc. (14:30) The next phase was trying to grow The Jewellery School - this was more of a challenge than getting started (17:27) Learning how to take a rest has been a process for me (18:55) I wanted to be able to reach a wider audience and I knew that online was the way to do that (20:46) There are seasons in my business where I’m having to do a lot, but I’m very mindful of it and take the time off afterwards (23:52) Nowadays I run Jewellers Academy full time (24:32) A few of the main lessons I’ve learned along the way (25:22)     RESOURCES The Jewellers Academy