#51 The Sweet Science Of Never Giving Up with FJ Smith

This week we start the year off with a huge dose of motivation. FJ Smith, an executive coach, she the founder of Clear View with FJ (https://www.clearviewwithfj.com) but she's not just any executive coach! In her final year of school, illness impeded her studies and at the tender age of 17, all childhood aspirations and hopes for the future seemed to be falling apart. After many tests the results came in and her life change forever, FJ had been suffering from the Chrone's. Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It causes inflammation of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition and can sometimes cause severe or fatal outcomes! At the beginning, FJ shares the difficulties she had to overcome and twice in her life where she had 24 hours to react to medication otherwise the consequences were fatal, at 1 point she was taking 82 tablets per day, however, FJ did not let this define her and went on to build a career in the banking industry with senior positions in UBS (www.ubs.com) Barclays Wealth International (www.barclays.com)and Lloyds of London (https://www.lloyds.com). FJ then went on to build her own HR consultancy and coaching practice, Clearview With FJ. Her clients have included some of the world’s most highly recognised and reputable organisations including GE Capital, Thompson Reuters, Ariel Reinsurance, BlackRock Asset Management and Price Waterhouse Coopers. She also took on the role of Executive Career Coach at the world-acclaimed London School of Economics and she's only just getting started! This is a story of never giving up and never loosing faith! You can find FJ on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ClearviewWithFJ) Linkedin (https://ae.linkedin.com/company/clearviewwithfj) & Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/clearviewwithfj/?hl=en) Listen to our episode on a platform of your choice https://linktr.ee/therecipetosuccess