Ms Rocky Tirona was one of the Philippines' top creative directors when she decided it was time to shift gears.
That decision came after one particularly long, tedious meeting about dandruff. She did not want to spend the rest of her life thinking about things like men's hygiene.
She longed to go back to where she thought her spirit had always been - the sea.
Ms Tirona has always had a connection to the sea, particularly the waters that hug the coasts. So, she marched up to her boss' office one day and told him she wanted to sink her teeth into work that held more meaning.
"I think I made the jump at the right time... I've always loved the ocean, and I always wanted to use my skills to do more meaningful things," she said.
Ms Tirona has since found her calling running the Fish Forever coastal fisheries programme of conservation and development organisation Rare.
One of her flagship initiatives, the Coastal 500 network, is among the 15 finalists chosen from some 1,500 nominees for The Earthshot Prize 2023, set to be awarded in Singapore on Tuesday, the only nominee from South-east Asia.
Coastal 500 is about saving the world's coastal waters from manmade and climate-related disasters like overfishing and coral bleaching, Ms Tirona told The Straits Times.
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