Career change at 40 rarely looks like a leap. Yvonne Lam left a senior role at JPMorgan in Hong Kong and started over as an interior designer, one small step at a time.

Yvonne took an introduction to design course during maternity leave, then a full year diploma with five real client projects, then an internship where she was the oldest person in the room taking direction from designers half her age.

In this episode, you'll hear Yvonne's story and learnings:

• How to test a hobby before you bet a career on it, in the exact order Yvonne did it
• Which JPMorgan skills transferred straight into design work, and why she says you are already halfway there
• How she handled the friends and family who questioned her decision, and why some of them ended up questioning their own
• The one technology gap she used to out execute designers with far more experience

If you are in the messy middle of leaving corporate and waiting to feel certain, this one is for you. You do not need certainty. You need the next proof point.

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