Leaving corporate rarely looks like one clean leap. Nic Law changed careers from corporate lawyer to master gin distiller, and the part nobody sees is the two years in between with no salary and his savings draining.

This is a Spotlight episode, where I go deep on one bold career change and the thinking behind it. Nic quit his law job in Hong Kong out of the blue after seven years, with no plan and no idea what came next. What he did next is the useful part: he took a distilling diploma, talked his way into an internship in Scotland in his thirties, and called every government department in the city until he found the one that could grant a license nobody believed still existed. Today he is co founder and master distiller at N.I.P., one of Hong Kong's first gin distilleries, named as the opposite of VIP.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to tell a calculated risk from a reckless one when you are the one taking it

Why he tested the idea in small steps before committing a single dollar

What actually transfers from the career you are leaving, and why his legal training was the reason the business exists at all

How he kept moving when every answer he got was vague

We also get into runway, which is where most of these decisions actually get made. Three months, six months, a year. How long you need before you jump, when a bridge role is the smarter move, and why a long runway is not always the safe one.

If you are stuck in your career and waiting to feel certain before leaving corporate, Nic's story is the one to sit with.

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