Episode #15 with Kira Kozulin: from project manager to copywriting & web design business
Welcome to episode #15 of the Career Pivot Podcast, hosted by Bec Sands. This episode is available on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes and Google Podcasts, and if you enjoy it, I would love it if you could please subscribe and leave me a review.
In today’s podcast episode, I interview Kira Kozulin, a professional writer who works with businesses in the beauty, health and wellness space to create website, social media and newsletter content that sells. She is part of branding and website design agency Ivory Edit. Kira’s mission is to uncover the personality and stories behind the clients she works with, for sharing with the world.
Kira spent 20 years developing and managing multi-million-dollar projects and funding programs in the public sector before pivoting into business. She holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University and certifications in project management.
Show Notes
1:50 How Kira spent 27 years in corporate and government project management and is now leaving her job and pivoting into her own copywriting and web design business; how she is transferring those skills into her own business
3:55 Why Kira decided to pivot and make such a massive change in her career, the catalyst that started it all, and the moment everything clicked
11:40 The first steps Kira took to bring her career pivot into reality, and how she started to pursue those breadcrumbs that led her towards what she loves to do
13:47 The difference that she felt in energy when thinking about corporate work vs working in her own business
16:00 How you can do what you enjoy, and get paid for it too
18:17 Doing the “slog” you want to do vs the slog you don’t
19:00 How earning more money can create positive change in the world and your community
19:30 How Kira found her first client and being unattached to the outcome supported her
20:45 The stage at which Kira completed a Career Pivot Coaching series, as well as Online Consulting Kickstart, and how these two things supported her
29:17 Kira’s advice for someone who is thinking about making a career pivot and what they can do next
Additional links:
Website: www.ivoryedit.com.au
Instagram: ivory_edit
📸 Image: @monjo_films
Further resources:
Books
Jenn Sincero - You Are A Badass
Michelle Poler - Hello Fears
Kate Northrup - Do Less
Denise Duffield-Thomas - Chillpreneur
Podcasts
Kathy Heller - Don’t Keep Your Day Job
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