🎙️ Episode Overview

Have you spent years building up skills and experience that you’ve never actually connected into a career of your own?

Do you feel like a square peg in a round hole in your current role, but you’re not sure what the alternative even looks like?

Are you sitting on more expertise than you realise, but waiting to feel “ready” or “confident enough” before you do anything with it?

If any of that sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

I remember the moment my guest today told me she’d been compartmentalising nearly 20 years of experience. Treating the thing she was actually brilliant at as a “side thing,” something she did for fun, separate from her “real” career. She is not alone, so many high-achieving women do the same. We do the work, we get the results, and somehow we still don’t let ourselves call it what it is.

In this episode, I sit down with the brilliant Priscilla Owusu. She is a writer, editor and content strategist with over 20 years in communications.  We talk about how she went from feeling stuck and unsure of her next move to building a new client pipeline for her own content strategy business, in just three months. 

We talk about what it actually takes to stop compartmentalising your expertise, why confidence comes after you take action (not before), and how a shift in mindset (not just strategy) was the real turning point in Priscilla building something of her own.

Priscilla Owusu is a writer, editor, and content strategist working primarily with small organisations, charities, and independent consultants. She spent over 20 years in Communications roles across sectors including finance, real estate, and higher education, before leaving in-house work to launch her own consultancy. At the heart of her work is writing and editing: helping clients develop content that communicates clearly and consistently, and earns credibility with the audiences they most want to reach. She also offers content and communications strategy for clients looking to think more broadly about how they show up. You can find her on LinkedIn or at priscillaowusu.co.uk.