Imagine standing at the threshold of your home, bailiffs hammering at the door, knowing that once you step outside you’ll be homeless. On top of that, your husband has just been diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative disease. In one single moment, you’re forced to wave goodbye to a life you spent 20 years building while…
What happens when your carefully built career suddenly… crumbles? For Susannah De Jager, who was a hedge fund CEO at 32, it was losing her biggest client at work and realising her role was untenable as she watched one of her closest friends die of cancer that upended everything. For Patsy Day, it was crashing…
Four years ago, Fern Fuller was juggling it all – a single mum with a full-time job as an Executive Assistant, COVID-induced home-schooling chaos, and the curveball that is perimenopause. Cue a moment of complete exhaustion that saw Fern sliding down the wall of her home office thinking, “I just can’t do this anymore.” Fern…
“Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.”– Baz Luhrmann What’s been filling up your social media feed recently? Posts and vids from influencers bigging up the benefits of collagen supplements by any chance? If, like us, you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is…
What if 12 emails could completely transform how you think about your future? What if you could wake up and find that the familiar voice that says ‘there has to be more to life than this’ has been replaced by a sense of excitement? Because you realise you finally know where you’re headed and exactly…
What’s preventing women from taking a new direction in their careers? And what can we do to encourage more mid-career women to feel like a pivot to something new is an option? Those are the questions at the heart of a new piece of research commissioned by Jenn Barnett, head of equity, inclusion and diversity…