More of my conversation with Shropshire-based executive coach Sarah Clein. The first part can be found in Hello You 81: Getting Off the SAD List, and if you - like me - find the darker time of the year difficult to deal with, I hope you’ll check it out.

Sarah helps, as she puts it, ‘knackered mid-life women in public service’ to have a better life, either in their current job or elsewhere. As you’ll hear, she brings a lot of related life experience to her work. She and I found quite a lot of common ground, too.

Topics covered include:

* navigating a toxic work environment

* what it means to be a public servant

* Sarah’s ‘Good Wife’ era

* neurodivergence, especially in the workplace

* growing up in an orthodox Jewish household

* mid-life women as role models

* how to reply when someone asks if you’re a secretary!

Find out more about Sarah Clein and her work via her LinkedIn page, where she posts daily nuggets of advice on getting through.

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