Lottie Outen never planned a career in real estate. As a child she wanted to be a vet or a doctor. As a student she fell for languages, chased a year abroad, and ended up in a flat in the middle of Madrid learning corporate banking in Spanish. Ask her how she got from there to Managing Director at Kennedy Wilson, overseeing seven billion euros of assets, and the honest answer is that almost none of it went to plan.
This week Lottie joins Zoe to trace a path built on instinct and a stubborn refusal to stand still. She is open about the disappointment that redirected her whole life, the long hours in investment banking, and the moment in a Berkeley Square boardroom when she looked around and thought, I am on the wrong side of the table.
What came next took nine months, a lot of Saturdays teaching herself, and one of the least convincing resignations her boss says he has ever received. And then, while she was riding an elephant in Sri Lanka on garden leave, her phone rang.
If you have ever felt the pull towards something before you could explain why, this one will land. Listen to the full episode to hear how Lottie learned that things happen for a reason, and that drive really does come from within.
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