Meet me
Hi, I’m Issy.
I never thought I’d end up in sales.
The long version
For anyone who wants to know me before they trust me.
I’m Isobel Hardwick. Issy to most people. I left high school with no plan. I bounced between university courses I didn’t care about and jobs I didn’t love.
I thought the working world was just… this. Something you got through, not something you built.
At 22, I was managing 160 rental properties at a real estate agency in Melbourne. It was the kind of job that looked respectable from the outside. Suit, office, business card, salary. From the inside, I was fielding complaints from landlords, chasing tenants for rent, and watching senior agents earn three times what I did to do a version of the same job. I couldn’t see a version of my thirties or forties where I was proud of how I’d spent my twenties.
The math of it kept me up at night.
I didn’t know what I wanted. I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to commute in peak hour forever. I didn’t want my income to be capped by someone else’s budget. I didn’t want to wait until I was fifty to take time off and go somewhere warm.
Then I met someone who lived and breathed sales and showed me what my potential could be like. Not the stereotype. The real thing. Remote-friendly. Commission-uncapped. Teachable.
I was skeptical. I didn’t have a sales background. I didn’t have a degree. I didn’t have the “type of personality” I thought salespeople needed. But the numbers didn’t lie, and the lifestyle it funded made the leap worth the risk.
Four years later, I’m an SDR at Workato, one of the world’s leading enterprise software companies. I’ve hit between 177% and 344% of target every full quarter I’ve been there. I was named the fastest SDR to book a meeting in the Asia-Pacific region. I live in Bali full-time. My income is higher than it’s ever been, and my life outside of work is richer than I knew was possible.
The numbers aren’t the real win.
Here’s the part nobody tells you. The real win is that I have energy at the end of the day. I have money to build things I care about. I have time to think. I have a career that actually gives back, instead of one that quietly takes from me.
QuotaClub exists because I’ve watched friends from hospitality, admin, teaching, real estate, and retail make this same shift. Every one of them said the same thing afterwards: “I wish I’d known how doable this was sooner.”
If you’re at the edge of a decision like I was four years ago, I want to make it easier for you than it was for me.
177–344%
of target every quarter
Fastest
SDR in APAC
4 years
from real estate to Bali
6-figure
remote income
What I believe
Five things I’ve come to believe about work and life.
01
Work should fund your life, not consume it.
02
Companies hire for drive and coachability. Everything else is teachable.
03
Remote work is a forcing function for trust and competence.
04
The career gap between your current life and your dream life is smaller than you think.
05
Most people who “can’t do sales” were just never taught properly.
Life in Bali
Proof that SaaS funds the life you want.
When you have remote income and location freedom, you get to build things outside of work. In my case, that’s been renovating villas in Bali as a side business. A project I couldn’t have imagined four years ago when I was managing rentals in Melbourne for someone else.
This isn’t about renovations. It’s about what becomes possible when you stop trading hours for a salary and start building a career that actually gives you back time, money, and creative energy.
Client stories
Be one of the first.
The first QuotaClub cohort is filling now. Client stories from these founding members will live here once they’ve landed their roles.
If you want to be among the first three success stories on this page, this is the moment.
Sound like the kind of person you want in your corner?
No pressure, no hard sell. Just a 30-minute conversation to see if we’re the right fit for each other.
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