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SUCCESS Business blueprint for
When Anna Bartholomew was eighteen, she went to the cashpoint at her university but saw she had no more money. Little did she realise how this moment would change the whole trajectory of her life.
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To make ends meet as a student she began working in a mortgage call centre in between her studies. Such was her aptitude with people, that her boss at the time suggested she should sit her mortgage advice exams, as she was studying anyway.
It meant she left university as a qualified mortgage adviser and by the time she was 28, she’d started her own mortgage and financial planning business, employing a team of fifty.
With an infectious zest for life, by her own admission she made every conceivable business mistake but did so with a smile on her face. Her business became like an extended family.
By 2013, Anna had merged her company with five others and was sitting on the board of a national business.
Whilst this experience may have terrified others, Anna loved and rose to the challenge until the business was eventually sold off in a multi-eightfigure deal in 2019.
Having been in financial services for 23 years, with little respite – Anna realised she was suffering from anxiety, overwhelm and burnout.
As she tried to navigate her way through what she was experiencing, she turned to hypnotherapy for help. It also enabled her to find joy in her life and business again and she was able to live with purpose and passion once more instead of being held back by being a perfectionist. Not surprisingly Anna knew she too wanted to train as a clinical hypnotherapist so she could help others.
Now, following the successful sale of her business and having left behind her hugely successful career in financial services, Anna is working as an entrepreneur, business strategist, and clinical hypnotherapist.
Anna now runs a program specifically for female entrepreneurs and business owners called the Kind & Powerful Business Blueprint.
Blending principles from the worlds of business and belief system coaching with kind and powerful strategies, to help women to create their own uniquely aligned business blueprint for success.
