More Than Mama

Returning to work tips, the flexible work revolution, losing yourself in IVF & getting your spark back with Elizabeth Willets, Founder of Investing In Women (& author of Flex)

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This week we're chatting to the absolutely fab Elizabeth Willetts. After being made redundant during the pandemic, she founded Investing in Women, and she has since written her first book, Flex, which is now available for pre-order. In this episode we discuss her journey, tips for returning to work, Elizabeth's personal story of feeling like she lost herself and her confidence during 4 years of fertility struggles and IVF, but also how she regained her confidence in motherhood and found fulfilment in using her recruitment experience to change the working landscape for mothers and parents for the better.


In this episode we chat about:


  • Elizabeth's why behind starting Investing In Women
  • Tips for finding and getting good part time roles
  • Defining flexible working
  • Importance of flexible working for all genders - men, women, dads, mums, carers
  • Biggest misconceptions about flexible and part time working
  • Motherhood making you more productive, time as the most precious commodity
  • Productivity crisis and how flexible working and part time working could be the key to fixing this
  • The transition from being employed to starting your own business
  • Working more hours starting her business, but working around the kids, working school hours and structuring her time
  • Difficulties starting your own business 
  • Why being made redundant was the best thing that ever happened to her
  • Advantages of entrepreneurship and the juggling act of building a business with young children
  • Putting your hand up, articulating your value and advancing your career whether you want full time or part time roles
  • Conditioning of women to keep their heads down and waiting to be recognised
  • Learning to blow our own trumpets!
  • Don’t be afraid to take up space, stop making yourself small
  • Assertiveness and writing emails as women
  • How and why motherhood made her more confident 
  • Losing herself during 4 years of fertility struggles, having her daughter through IVF, the resilience she found because of it
  • Advice for anyone going through or considering IVF, finding a doctor, the dangers of the google rabbit hole
  • What’s helpful to say to someone going through IVF, and what not to say
  • Tips to rebuild your confidence
  • Self development
  • Thinking about your definition of success
  • Elizabeth’s new book Flex!


Flex is available for pre order from Waterstones here. You can connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn here and via her website here.


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More Than MamaBy Briony Langley-Miles