'Fear is the only thing that stops you'

Ideas and ambitions are bottled up inside many of us. They twist and gnaw within, but people still suffer through existing jobs for the sake of financial security. A 33-year-old Londoner named Tracey Curran, however, has shown the courage to take the startup plunge. Curran did it when she and her husband were furloughed at their respective jobs due to the pandemic that has ravaged economies like an angry Tyrannosaurus. She did it when her third child is on the way.

According to a report by the BBC, Curran was furloughed at her job at fashion e-commerce platform Asos. Despite a pay-cut and an uncertain future at the company, she found that she was working long hours.

"You'd go to bed with your head swimming with retail figures and projected sales," Curran told the BBC.

If she was going to be overworked at the cost of her health and family life, she might as well do it for her own company, Curran thought. In October, she took the bold step of launching her vintage-inspired label, Sunday Archives.