06/09/2026
✨ STORY TIME ✨
When I was at university, trying to decide what to do with my nursing degree, I knew there were parts of nursing I genuinely loved. I loved A&E and the adrenaline of it, and I also loved the completely different side of nursing that came with end-of-life care. But neither ever felt like where I wanted my career to ultimately go, mostly because I knew I didn't want to spend my life working for someone else.
Then I discovered aesthetics, and something just clicked. I realised it was something I could genuinely see myself enjoying, but more importantly, I saw the potential for freedom. I could build something of my own, become a great medically-led aesthetic practitioner, and create a career around the kind of life I actually wanted.
That was the part other people struggled to understand.
I had people tell me I couldn't just go and work for myself, that I would need to work full-time alongside it, and that maybe I needed to be more realistic. When I said I didn't want to spend my whole life working for somebody else, I was told it was “just life” and that everyone has to work.
But I couldn't understand why that had to be my version of life.
Why should I have to ask permission to take a holiday? Why should I feel guilty for being unwell? Why should I spend my working life making somebody else's business successful while struggling to create the life I wanted for myself and my family?
It never sat well with me.
So I gave myself permission to dream about something different.
I didn't know exactly how I was going to get there, and I certainly didn't have everything figured out, but I started anyway. What began as an idea has grown into A. Smith Medical Aesthetics, and I'm still building it into something bigger.
That's why I refuse to stop dreaming big. Not because I think everything will be easy, but because I believe that if you want something different from the life you're living, you have to be willing to imagine that it could exist first.
Don't let someone else's idea of a “realistic” life become the limit of yours. 🤍
P.S. GIRL POWER 💪