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Jamie Lee Curtis at the 2024 Oscars.

Even Jamie Lee Curtis knows the sting of being fired. It happened in her first job

In a new book by Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill, the Halloween actor writes about how a sliding-doors moment led to her becoming the star she is today.

  • Jamie Lee Curtis

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Bold Charters’ Harri Joyce with mentor Nigel Matthews.

Perth man supports teen with autism to launch game-changing business

The heart-warming local story of a friendship that allowed a young man realise a dream – and go on to help many more people in turn.

King Charles

What Charles, the new world no.1 and a 56-year-old apprentice can teach us about grey power

It’s wonderful to see someone armed with a silver fox beard and zero knee cartilage be literally best in the world at something really hard.

  • Kate Halfpenny
Former Olympic Swimmer Giaan Rooney has purchased a macademia farm. 

Chrissy Flanagan has worked in public relations, sausage making, and now, runs a social club in Petersham. 
7th December 2023
Photo: Steven Siewert

Rabbitohs player Michael Chee Kam is taking a barber course to ensure he has skills following his retirement from rugby 

SH NEWS: Former clinical trials chemist, Jennifer Hunt has changed careers and now is a gin distiller. November 2, 2023. Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Debbie Cohen left her job in marketing to become an interior decorator, in Sydney. 24 November 2023 Photo: Janie Barrett
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A career change, not a crisis: The Australians making a midlife switch

Meet the Olympian turned farmer, PR guru turned socialite and chemist turned gin distiller who changed careers in midlife and don’t regret it.

  • Amber Schultz and Mary Ward
Corporate lawyer Alanna Rennie.

Why this corporate lawyer moved to a farm nine hours away from the office

A 29-year-old associate at top law firm Baker & McKenzie grew up on a farm 600km west of Sydney. During the pandemic she moved home, and now has no plans to return.

  • Charlotte Grieve
American Dan Gookin, who wrote the first Dummies book, on computing, in 1991. The series has since expanded to tackle subjects ranging from beekeeping to Shakespeare.

Dumb luck? No way. The billion-dollar smarts of the 'For Dummies' empire

Nearly 30 years ago, a how-to guide called DOS For Dummies was published. The reaction to the user-friendly and accessible book led to a global phenomenon.

  • Tim Elliott
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Psychologist Tunteeya Yamaoka says the word simply means “reason for being”, or “living with purpose”.

The Japanese philosophy of Ikigai could hold the key to fulfillment

Psychologist Tunteeya Yamaoka says the word simply means “reason for being”, or “living with purpose”.

  • Evelyn Lewin
JK Rowling persevered enormously, but it is difficult to know how long to keep pushing yourself in pursuit of 'success'.

We cling to the idea perseverance is the key to success, but is it?

Failure is not always the path to success. Sometimes, failure is the door to something new.

  • Kerri Sackville
Illustration by Tanya Cooper

How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world

Your banker, boss, Facebook friend, lover: are they for real? In a me-me, high-tech age that helps fakers to make it, masqueraders are thriving like never before.

  • Shelley Gare
"I’ve grown and learnt immensely from Ian, even down to my parenting."

'The biggest thing I've learnt from him is humility': CEO Natalie Egleton on Ian Sinclair

Former Nationals leader Ian Sinclair is the chairman of a foundation that grants money to regional communities. He's guided CEO Natalie Egleton on both boardroom dynamics and family balance.

  • Dani Valent