C hanging your plans, following you passion, feeling happy.

For anyone who

feels the daily struggles of living up to people's expectations – The university

drop out and successful businesswomen – brings about the question, “is
university for everyone?,” and does a degree define our intelligence?

“University wasn’t for me” - Abbie Lambert believes that her life has taken a
better route after dropping out of university, but, “will never forget the
experience”. Her 6-month journey at Buckinghamshire New University, felt
longer than it sounds. The anxiety, depression and mental pressure she got
from people around her to stick with her degree, “wasn’t worth it”. She had to
put her happiness above anything else. Being so far away from home was a
battle she thought she was prepared for but couldn’t handle not being able to
see her family - “I only saw my family twice out of those 6 months”. In an
interview with Abbie, she talks about dealing with homesickness at uni and the
“struggles of many other university students”. Her passion was to help others
and knew even after dropping out of uni she still wanted to follow through
with this. “I’m only young”, she claimed – at 24 years old she has a whole
future ahead of her and she wasn’t prepared to give up on her passion - and
she didn’t.

Finding an opportunity to follow her passion in a career where she didn’t have
to leave home. Seeing the struggles of many university students - “opened my
eyes” - she claimed. The thought of being able to somehow help these
students just by simply being a “friendly face and a best friend”, someone they
can talk to when everything’s becoming a little bit too overwhelming – “would
“make me feel empowered”. She knew nothing about starting a business. It
was a new experience for her. - “something big, something exciting”. Using the
people around her, lucky for her she had a great grandad who ran his own
photography and arts business, so he was able to give her tips on how to get
things started. “This idea felt close to my heart” - she wanted to make this
business personal to her and be able to connect to these students on deeper
levels. Building trust, respect and openness in her relationships with them.
 Running business from home...

“I started this business properly 8 months after dropping out of university.”

She runs this business all from the comfort of home and works from the desk
in her kitchen and says, “I even sometimes work sitting on my sofa”. The
freedom, the space and the comfort of working from home- “I know I don’t
regret dropping out of university”. Seeing her family everyday she knows she
made the right decision for her because her happiness is given back to her in
the pride, she receives from changing people's lives- claiming “nothing could
make me happier”. It truly is inspiring and empowering to make a difference.
Part of her business allows her to connect with these students on deeper levels
and build friendships as well as being able to simply help them with their
university lives. “I was talking to a student in similar circumstances to me, but
she believed her passion was to be found at university and wanted to stay.”
This connection she has with her clients feels more like a friendship to the
point she gets daily updates on these people's lives - “seeing the small impact I
had on their lives today”.

Next month's edition...

Struggling with an addiction wasn’t the easiest thing to go through. - “how I

managed to break free of my addiction nightmare”- for all those people in
need of an empowering and life changing story - young teenage boy talks
about what it was like to go through addiction at a young age and how he
made a change to his life to chase his dreams.

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