My Story
25 years in London's digital and advertising agencies.
Great career. But the wrong life for me.
I was ambitious, driven and good at what I did. But by 2019, I'd started to feel like something was missing.
I did a lot of work on myself, coaching, breathwork, journalling, courses. Things were shifting, but not fast enough.
Then, in March 2023, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had an aggressive type, which meant the full works - surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Treatment lasted almost a year.
That year changed everything for me.
The life I'd been living was no longer the right path. For the first time, I knew that with complete clarity. As soon as treatment ended, I threw myself into retraining. Reflexology, emotional freedom technique and many of the things that had helped me rebuild myself.
I left the corporate world for good in November 2025. In January 2026, we packed up our London life and moved to the coast with our two boys.
Two of the best decisions I've ever made...
And then someone asked me a very good question.
One of the first people I met in Worthing was the wonderful Jenny from The Intuitive Path. I went to her for a reading and she asked me something I genuinely hadn't considered, “Is there any reason you're not using your marketing skills differently?”
Woah.
I'd been so focused on everything I wanted to leave behind. The toxic environments, the egos, the work that didn't mean anything to me and I'd completely lost sight of what I actually loved — Helping people.
Seeing what's brilliant in a business, spotting what someone can't see because they're too close to it, taking all the thoughts and ideas in their head and helping make sense of them.
Helping good people build good businesses.
That same day, Grow with Kerry was born.
Turns out, I didn't need to leave everything behind.
I just needed to use it differently:
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25 years in some of London's best agencies, working with huge household brands.
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My holistic training and everything it's taught me about people.
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My absolute love of bringing out the best in someone.
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And the life experience of having everything stop, looking honestly at what wasn't working and having the courage to change it.
Which, funnily enough, is pretty much what I now help other people do with their businesses:
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Look at what they've built.
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See what's brilliant.
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Be honest about what isn't working.
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Spot where they're playing too small.
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And work out what comes next.
I work on the business behind the marketing, because when your business makes sense,
marketing it becomes a whole lot easier.
