This week, I'm super excited because I've got a brilliant guest on with me. I’m joined by Lizzie Martin and we're going to be talking about the challenges that professional women face when navigating a return to work after maternity leave, how you can use this point in your career to leverage your leadership profile and what you can do as a line manager to support returning talent so that you don't stunt female leadership progression.

Here are the highlights:

• (03:31) The challenges around the parental transition
• (08:01) How women can support themselves when planning maternity leave
• (14:35) Leaders in the organization are the key to staff retention
• (16:13) Empathetic leadership create a more innovative team
• (21:46) Millennials look for more than just the salary
• (32:17) Challenge the narrative around motherhood

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About Lizzie:

Lizzie Martin is an executive career and leadership coach. She has consulted globally in people strategy, female leadership development and business development across a variety of industries. She specializes in the space of parental transitions, with a particular interest in strengthening female talent pipelines after maternity leave and equipping leaders to create brilliant return to work experiences for returners.

Contact Lizzie:

Website: https://www.worklifemother.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worklifemother/

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzie-martin33/

This week, I'm super excited because I’m going to be talking about the steps you can take to get promoted this year. I’m going to start off by sharing some stats about the separation between men and women and how shockingly there still is a big gap and why that might be. Then I'm going to give you five steps to help you to get that promotion. To help you be really purposeful and really proactive rather than waiting for it to happen.

Here are the highlights:

• (01:43) For every hundred men that were getting their first promotion, 72 women were promoted
• (11:52) Dream big
• (13:20) What is your value proposition?
• (14:30) Share your goals
• (15:12) Think about your pathway to promotion

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This week, I've got the brilliant Suzie Cuthbertson with me today and we are going to be talking about intuitive leadership and self-trust. Suzie is an intuitive business coach and mentor for high-performing heart-centered female entrepreneurs. She works with women on their energy alignment, business strategy, confidence, and mindset, and really helps them to reconnect with their heart and with their soul and create that financial freedom without burning out.

Here are the highlights:

• (05:08) What does intuition actually mean?
• (11:18) We have three brains; the heart, the mind and the gut
• (14:17) We should stop gaslighting ourselves
• (23:21) Connect with your inner child
• (26:00) Your heart and your gut love to work in tandem

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About Suzie:

Suzie Cuthbertson is an Intuitive Business Coach & Mentor, for high-performing heart-centered female entrepreneurs. She works with women on energy alignment, business strategy, confidence and mindset helping them to reconnect with their soul and create financial freedom without burnout.

Having burnt out and lost her way in life during her corporate days, Suzie has made it her mission to help other women grow and scale their own service-based business that truly lights them up and gives them the personal and financial freedom as well as the impact they have always desired.

She is an accredited coach, Qualified NLP practitioner, EFT therapist and qualified mediator and has a large background in strategy working as a company director and shareholder on a global scale. 

Suzie's focus with all her clients is growing a sustainable business by putting wellbeing first, as after years of burnout, she helps women heal their success trauma and burn out patterning, so they can push through to their next level in business.

Contact Suzie:

Website: https://www.suziecuthbertson.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanne.omahony.3

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suziecuthbertson/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzie-cuthbertson-820b1b58/?originalSubdomain=uk

This week, I'm going to be talking about how to ease yourself into 2022. I'm going to be covering how you might be feeling as we're starting the year and why that is. And then I'm just going to give you five super simple tips that are going to help you to ease yourself into the year and take the pressure off so that it feels good to you.

Here are the highlights:

• (10:52) Empty your head
• (13:56) Set an intention for the year
• (15:13) Think about your feel-good foundations
• (22:05) Think about your pace

Podcast mentions:

Brené Brown Unlocking Us Podcast with David Eagleman: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-david-eagleman-on-the-inside-story-of-the-ever-changing-brain/

New York Times article: ‘There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing’

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This week, we're going to be talking about when you get the ‘mind monkeys’, that internal chatter when you’re moving to a newer, bigger role with Jacqui Jagger. Jacqui is known as the mind monkey tamer, she is a leadership and mindset coach that really focuses on helping first-time senior leaders avoid the ‘dickhead traps’ and enable them to make a successful transition from technical experts to confident leaders.

Here are the highlights:

• (04:32) Mind monkeys can get in the way of fulfilling your potential
• (11:14) What do you want to be remembered for?
• (22:09) Judgement is a major mind monkey
• (27:47) Overwhelm is a big mind monkey
• (32:50) Self versus community

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About Jacqui:

Jacqui Jagger, AKA The Mind Monkey Tamer is a leadership & mindset coach with a particular focus on helping first-time senior leaders avoid the dickhead trap and make a successful transition from technical expert to confident leader.

Transitions into new roles are often the most challenging times in the professional lives of leaders, so doing that for the first time can bring the mind monkeys out in force. A chunky promotion can feel like it should be a source of confidence, but the reality is often the opposite with new leaders feeling vulnerable, lonely and uncertain.

Linked In: linkedin.com/in/jacqui-jagger

Website: beyondboundariescoaching.co.uk 

This week, I'm going to be sharing a little bit of my planning process that I go through with my clients. This is a pause and passion plan process, it's all about feelings first so it's not your traditional way of planning. I'm going to take you through five steps to help you plan in a way that feels good and will help you step away from having to make January resolutions. Which let's face it no one feels good saying and within a month, 80% of people have failed them!

Here are the highlights:

• (05:36) Don’t put yourself under pressure
• (06:39) Your objectives and goals can be a feeling
• (07:38) The magic day structure
• (09:55) Think about what you don't want
• (11:34) Pause and reflect
• (12:53) Set a theme for the year

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This week, I will be sharing 25 lessons from my 2021.  I took some time to look back and reflect on everything that I had achieved in 2021. Despite health issues, despite so much change at home, I'm actually incredibly proud of myself and I'm proud of what my business has become.  I love the foundations that I've built and I'm super excited for 2022.

Here are the highlights:

• (09:31) Focus on you and your loved ones
• (15:33) There is no normal
• (17:09) Have a plan, but let it flex
• (20:07) Don't underestimate the power of small steps
• (23:25) Identify and know your value
• (27:14) It's okay to change your mind
• (31:04) Empathize and be vulnerable
• (35:00) You're not alone
• (37:01) Remind yourself of who you are

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This week, we're going to be talking all about wellbeing for women at the top, but in a way that you maybe haven't thought about it before. My guest today is Andy Holmes who is Head of Global Wellbeing at Reckitt. He focuses on reimagining, reframing, reprogramming, human capacity, capability, and performance in life.

Here are the highlights:

• (03:19) How do we use the science of wellbeing to understand, reframe, and re-engineer the way that we can perform
• (06:49) We want people to behave consciously and consistently
• (10:34) Who do you want to be at the end of the day?
• (18:37) Do a daily morning check-in
• (28:35) Downtime and being idle are incredibly important
• (34:22) Work on the belief that you can be more

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About Andy:

I reimagine, reframe & reprogram human capacity, capability & performance. In life.

Wellbeing is about much more than being healthy or active. We must be engaged in what we choose to do, whilst having the underlying health, energy & motivation to do it to our full potential, sustainably.

Driven by my personal experiences, knowledge & passion for people, I take a strategic approach to 'human capacity', working with an extensive network of specialists to restructure personal & organisational approaches to wellbeing & performance.

With my background as a professional sportsman, my degree in physiology & decades of experience heading-up capability & leadership, I bring together the science of holistic wellbeing, along with cognition & leadership development to enable cultural change, unlock D&I, collaboration & innovation to drive personal growth & business performance.

As we grow, we should not forget the wisdom of our inner elder but also not ignore the curiosity of our inner child.

Connect with Andy:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-holmes-005 

This week, we’re going to be looking at end of year reviews. We're getting towards the end of year and getting into planning for 2022, looking at budgets, looking at forecasts. Looking at the key strategy for next year and also the objectives that are coming out of it. And as part of that, there are end of year reviews going on.

So we’re really going to look at getting more from your end of year reviews. How to go into those meetings and feel excited, how to go in and feel prepped, how to feel clear on what you're asking for and how to really get from it, what you actually want and what you actually need.

Here are the highlights:

(01:59) I used to go into reviews like I was going into battle

(04:27) There was a lack of clarity around my objectives

(12:11) Own the meeting - arrange the time, date and set the outline

(13:04) Really prepare for the review

(14:37) Prep and practice

(16:32) Get really clear on what's expected

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This week, I’m welcoming a great guest, Michelle Gyimah, and we're going to be talking about how, as a woman at the top, you can know what you want and ask for it. Rather than getting stuck and feeling like you don't deserve it.

Michelle Gyimah is the Director of Equality Pays, a gender and ethnicity equality consultancy that is dedicated to closing workplace pay gaps.

Here are the highlights:

• (02:41) Women are rarely asked what they actually want
• (04:15) What is it that you want?
• (07:58) Ask for the thing that's not been put on the table
• (12:53) Do a proper risk assessment
• (24:58) Leadership starts there with what you want, what you need, and when you need it
• (31:37) Trust your instincts

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About Michelle:

Michelle Gyimah is the Director of Equality Pays, a gender and ethnicity equality consultancy dedicated to closing workplace pay gaps. With gender pay gap reporting regulation, possible ethnicity pay gap reporting, and a workplace talent shortage looming, redressing gender and racial inequalities in the workplace is more important than ever. Michelle’s unique understanding of employee engagement, workplace challenges and personal experiences enables her to embed practical application into her consultancy.

Michelle is a passionate advocate for enabling women (and men) to progress in their careers in a way that suits their outside-of-work responsibilities and lifestyle choices. She does this by empowering workplaces to radically rethink how they can support their employees to thrive at work.

Michelle has over 8 years experience of working at the Equality and Human Rights Commission and holds a Masters in Human Rights from The University of Manchester.

Michelle is a regular contributor to numerous podcasts, business magazines, international conferences and lives in Valencia, Spain.

Contact Michelle:

Website: www.equalitypays.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellegyimah/