A Turning Point

We were living back in Sydney and I was an intellectual property partner at Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers when I lost my parents in a car accident. This made me reconsider a lot of things. I made a decision that I would step back from the demands of corporate legal practice and look for more balance in my life.

I remember thinking ‘Well, I’m going to do something different. I’m going to take a year off and have a think.’ I’d worked incredibly hard and done amazing things but it just wasn’t bringing the same joy.

At some stage, I contacted the Executive Director of the Arts Law Centre which is Australia’s national community legal centre for arts and arts organisations and said, ‘Look, I was thinking of volunteering. This is my background – would you be interested?’ We had a coffee and by the end of the coffee, I had a job. I stayed nearly 10 years. (That was a powerful brew!)