A Taste of Financial Planning - Paul Mills - Reinventing Your Career in Midlife

Mar 8, 2026

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What happens when you walk away from a successful career and start again in mid-life?

In this episode of A Taste of Financial Planning, Dennis cooks a Turkish feast while we sit down with marketing leader and entrepreneur Paul Mills.

After years in senior corporate marketing roles, Paul chose to leave the security of employment and build his own business, working with companies as a fractional marketing leader and strategic adviser.

Over dinner we talk about the realities of that transition, including:

• the mindset shift from employee to entrepreneur • the financial realities of building a business later in life • how your relationship with money changes in your 50s • why many founders quietly see their business as part of their long-term financial plan

It's an honest conversation about reinvention, risk and what it really takes to start again.

Along the way Dennis prepares a Turkish meze feast, proving once again that some of the best financial conversations happen around a table.

About Paul Mills

Paul Mills is a fractional CMO and marketing adviser who works with organisations looking for experienced strategic marketing leadership without the need for a full-time hire. After many years in senior corporate roles, he founded his own advisory practice and now helps leadership teams bring clarity and commercial focus to their marketing.

You can find Paul at:

https://www.vcmo.uk/

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Host: Dennis Hall

Host: Sarah Steele

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