Don't Tell Me I Can't... ...Start My Own Business At 47!

Sherry Cannon-Jones explains why it’s never too late to follow your dreams

- Cher Heasmer

For some people, their light bulb moment happens in the middle of a meeting, for others it’s an epiphany in the night – mine came while I was scrolling my way through emails.

Alone at the laptop, suddenly it dawned on me, what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was going to set up my own business – and I wasn’t going to let the fact I was 47 stop me.

I’d worked as a primary school teacher since my 20s. I loved my job and had two sons – Jackson in June 1996, followed by Louie two years later. After separating from their dad, life as a single working mum wasn’t always easy – but we’d share the chores at home and spend weekends as a family. I met my now husband Scott in 2011 and when he proposed in 2015 I felt like I had it all.