Dan Burn-Forti
An advertising project director decided to give up her 15-year career in the concrete jungle to move to the North Wales wilderness to reconnect with nature.
Sian Sykes was in her early 30s and a project director for advertising firm J. Walter Thompson (now Wunderman Thompson) when she decided to change her life. After some soul searching in her home region of Snowdonia, Wales, she found it harder to go back to the 18-hour days and her corporate life in the capital.
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“When I was back home in Wales, I sparkled and I felt really fulfilled,” explains Sykes. “I found it quite a hard transition going back into a concrete jungle and a fast-paced environment because I’d been used to big open spaces, the freedom to play and enjoy the great outdoors, which I was so passionate about when I was young.”