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BBC World Service - The Conversation, 'Starting over after redundancy'
Companies around the world are making their employees redundant. But for Eleanor Tweddell and Dawn Kelly, losing their jobs was the best thing that ever happened to them. After being laid off in 2015, communication executive Dawn Kelly used her severance pay to open her own cafe, The Nourish Spot, in Queens, New York.
So You've Been Made Redundant. What Next?
Thanks to rolling global recessions, pandemics, inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, many employees will experience multiple redundancies before they're out of their twenties. Here, Vogue guides you on managing your head, heart and - let's face it - ego, after being made redundant.
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“I help you go from no idea, to some ideas, to too many ideas to The Idea and you make it happen” eleanor
Eleanor Tweddell
Eleanor Tweddell is the founder of Another Door, where you are encouraged to rethink work and see change as opportunity. Eleanor coaches and mentors people to discover their thing, develop their thing, create their thing.
Eleanor is the author of Why losing your job could be the best thing that ever happens to you, published by Penguin Random House. She also writes and talks about change and rethinking and has been featured in Grazia, The Guardian, Wired magazine and British Vogue.
After 23 years of corporate life, in senior roles with great brands such as Whitbread, Costa Coffee, RAC, Virgin Atlantic and Vodafone, Eleanor decided to start her first business after being made redundant. Eleanor’s clients include Bristol Water, Channel 4, Trinity Mirror and Harvey Nichols.
Eleanor talks about seeing ‘change as opportunity, despite the fear’ on her podcast, as a guest on podcasts, in the media and as a speaker.
You will mostly find her in the fells of the Lake District, where she coaches people to embrace their rambling mind.
