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Women are leaving jobs to seek wellbeing, creativity, freedom as a way of life

Finding freedom in solitude, Amanda Diamond enjoys daily walks and swims in the coastal hamlet of Venus Bay. (ABC Gippsland: Rachael Lucas)

It's hard to believe how much the world has changed since a generation of shoulder-padded, power-suited young women, set out to "have it all" in the 1980s and 1990s.

These days, you're more likely to hear women fantasise about leaving "it all behind", trading the career treadmill for a quiet life in a coastal town.

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