Feeling like you can’t afford to make a career change right now, having too many ideas or even just struggling to find one. The third section of Game Changers is all about the practicalities of how to change career or indeed make any other big life changes. Here’s the third instalment from Rachel, who is currently completing the programme and … Read More
How to be confident in returning to work after maternity leave
I get infuriated that more employers don’t recognise the skills that women have in returning to work after maternity leave, not just from actually becoming a mother but also from having that time out of the business or workplace. I mean clearly the fact that we have been off for 3, 6, 12 months (maybe longer) means that all our … Read More
Game Changing Story – Rachel (Chapter Two)
The second instalment of a brilliant story about changing career to fit around a family. Rachel, current attendee of our Game Changers programme, tells us about taking on the supermum myth and dealing with her inner critic. Find out whether she has made any progress over the last three weeks, and if you missed Chapter One you can read it … Read More
The Mothership – The ultimate sisterhood for working mothers
Drumroll… We’re so excited to announce that the brand new and improved Mothership is now open – this is our membership programme for working mums. Something we felt was really missing in our own lives as busy parents trying to earn a crust whilst spend time with our little ones, not to mention hold everything else together and spend a bit of … Read More
Game Changing Story – Rachel (Chapter One)
What is the Game Changers programme really like to complete? How exactly does it help with changing career? Does it take up tons of your time? One of our current attendees of the programme mentioned that she loves writing and used to be a journalist so I asked if she might document her experience in a series of blog posts. So … Read More
Mama Interview – Dr Jessamy Hibberd
Here we feature another interview with a mother doing deeply rewarding and fascinating work alongside raising a family. Thank you so much Jessamy for sharing your thoughts on motherhood and life! Tell us a bit about you: I’m a mother of three and a Clinical Psychologist. We live near the coast in Hove, where my boy and two girls (aged … Read More
Mama Interview – Frankie, Doing It For The Kids
Within our membership community, The Mothership (about to open up again for new members soon!) we share stories by mothers whom we can learn from and be inspired by. This was a good’n so I thought I’d share it over here too. Frankie (Doing it for the kids) is one of our favourite down to earth, genuine, brilliantly talented women … Read More
Three tips for switching up your career and life
We share so much content and inspiration and support for working out what makes you happy, where your career could go next and how to actually make it happen on our Game Changers programme. It’s hard to narrow it down but here are three top tips if you are wanting to switch up your career and life, three things I’ve learnt from … Read More
Game Changing Story – Sophie, The Baby Bubble
Another wonderful story from someone who has switched career to do something they love and that works around family life. Sophie did Game Changers last year and has made some pretty ace changes… Q. Tell us a bit about you and your family set up? Hello! I’m Sophie, I’m married to Pete and I have a 16-month-old daughter Eliza. We … Read More
Returning to work after maternity leave – support is available!
“You don’t know what you don’t know” is a line which rings so true for me when it comes to returning to work after maternity leave. And I definitely didn’t know I was going to find it so hard. Looking for support and struggling five years ago was the catalyst for me to design and then launch Rock Your Return. A place … Read More