My journey as a Founder and Entrepreneur began at 27, when I left a language school where I’d been working alongside a brilliant team. A group of us walked out together and instead of scattering into different jobs, I decided to build something better and employ the entire team!
I set up my own Language Centre in Poland and became the boss of the very people I used to sit next to as a colleague. That meant every difficult conversation, every piece of feedback, every “how do I say this without it blowing up” landed on my desk – with people who were my friends first and my team second.
Nobody trains you for that. I learned it the way most first-time managers do: badly, then a bit better, then finally on purpose.
