288: What successful professional reinvention looks like in practice - with Valerie Khoo

Episode notes

Look up the word 'eclectic' in the dictionary and there will be a picture there of this week's guest - her name is Valerie Khoo , and when it comes to professional evolution, Valerie is the Queen of Reinvention! Valerie has who has successfully navigated careers in accounting, PR, journalism, public speaking, entrepreneurship, and the visual arts. She’s a published author and the founder of the Australian Writers' Centre, which has trained over 100,000 students worldwide since opening its doors in 2005. Valerie also hosts the popular podcast - So You Want to be a Writer - which has over three million downloads - and, if that wasn’t enough, she was for several years the curator of Sydney's Lunar Festival, which is one of the city's major arts and cultural events. Valerie’s creative journey took an unexpected turn when she picked up a paintbrush and discovered her passion for visual art.

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