Camille Renaudin

About Beyond Cubicles

📢 #BeyondCubicles is a weekly LinkedIn series created by Carolina D’Souza, born out of her own experience transitioning from a corporate career to independent consulting. Since its launch in June 2024, the series has evolved into a platform that showcases the inspiring journeys of several founders who have redefined the traditional 9-to-5.

Through authentic narratives, #BeyondCubicles highlights themes of courage, resilience, and purpose. The stories feature individuals from diverse industries—ranging from tech and education to wellness and adventure—who share their experiences of stepping away from conventional roles to pursue passion-driven careers. 

✨ Note: All features in this series are unpaid and shared as a way to honor and amplify real stories of transformation.

Camille Renaudin‘s grandmother had lived a full life. But no one had ever recorded it.

 

When redundancy ended her role, she had been turning over an idea for years: a novel inspired by her grandparents’ lives. She flew back to France. She recorded her grandparents in structured conversations, “almost like a podcast,” then shared the recordings with family.

 

Their reaction changed her direction entirely.

 

“That’s when I realized there was something real to build,” she says.

 

The experience became Heroes Editions (heroeseditions.com), a private legacy recording service.

 

She works one-on-one with founders, executives, parents, and grandparents to capture their life journey, preserved in audio for future generations.

 

“The idea: we are good at organizing what we leave behind materially… but we rarely preserve the context. The ‘why’. The lived experience,” she says.

The name ‘Heroes’ refers to people who have lived extraordinary things in their own context and never stopped to say so.

 

Before Heroes Editions, she worked in communications, including years at Expo 2020 Dubai. Earlier, as a freelance TV journalist. Over time, the pull toward something more personal grew harder to ignore.

 

Building something intimate brought its own weight. “Leaving a structured environment to build something from scratch is destabilizing,” she says. “This is not trend-driven, it’s niche, intimate.”

 

Being a solopreneur and mother of three made the stakes concrete. “If I don’t move things forward, nobody else will do it for me,” she says.

 

Her purpose kept her anchored. “I’m helping people connect generations, express love, preserve stories and pass on a legacy, and that gives meaning,” she says.

 

Her husband supported the leap. He also pushed her to think bigger. “He pointed out I was dreaming too small,” she says. Her mother surprised her. Someone who rarely expresses emotion, she came to understand both the work and the person behind it.

 

The personal brand followed the same logic as the business. “The more personal and honest I am, the more people seem to understand and trust what I do,” she says.

 

Originally from France, she moved to Dubai nearly a decade ago when her then-boyfriend, now husband, received a job opportunity here.

 

“Dubai has a unique energy,” she says. “In many ways, it’s the perfect place to build something like Heroes Editions.”