Your Career & You

Atiya Chaudhry-Green lives in the UK and has 37 years healthcare experience in clinical care, quality improvement, project and programme management. Throughout her career she has been an avid learner and undertaken many self, team, quality improvement and leadership courses and trainings. It was only when she completed and certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Coach over 20 years ago that she realised she had buried her uniqueness and authenticity through life exper...

Frances Mensah Williams CBEIn 2015 Frances’s acclaimed first novel From Pasta to Pigfoot was published by Jacaranda Books and selected by WH Smith Travel as one of the top 25 of its 100 Summer reads. Frances is also the author of the novel Imperfect Arrangements, published in 2020 and described by bestselling novelist Dorothy Koomson as ‘a brilliantly written novel’.Frances is a passionate advocate for skills and capacity building in Africa. She leads training and talent management projects a...

What Is It Like Being a Teenager in Britain? British teenagers spend most of their time at school, in fact students in Britain can leave school at sixteen, take their first important exams GCSE's or stay on to go onto 6th form college to undertake 'A' level qualifications. However, to understand just some of the challenges they face and how they navigate their way around career development is a crucial part in developing their confidence, motivation, self perception and ambition. S...

Temitope Falade Aderibigbe is a Pharmacist, mother, wife and successful host of Mothers Haven Podcast a place of rest where women can find help, hope and a pathway to healing. A podcast for every woman and those who deeply care about them. Temi has successfully given a voice to women, supporting them and their families as childbirth can trigger many powerful emotions in both parents, ranging from excitement and delight to anxiety and depression. When signs of depression ...

My Journey as a Professional Life Coach - Aisha AbdulqaderI started my journey as a professional life coach in 2019 and today I am blessed for serving others specially women to find their true identity, true essence, and accept themselves unconditionally to be their best version and become successful individuals. Because every human being deserves to live the life that they truly wish and born for.

Valentina a new joiner of the UAE life, moved to Dubai over two years ago. She has assisted clients in setting up new companies (startups) or to expand across countries. She shares how she has navigated her way around her career and Dubai life!

Mentoring and coaching are workplace developmental relationships that help empower individuals and sustain individual and collective growth. They are also critical in building the leaders of tomorrow while strengthening the foundation of the present team and organization. Mentoring and coaching is a learning experience that goes both ways. For mentees, they gain a role model and a teacher to help them develop not only the skills but also the attitude and values of their workplace. For co...

Relationships matter in the workplace, and none more important perhaps than the one you have with your manager. We all have a manager, and most of our days at work involves working and engaging with them. This relationship has a very important influence in our lives – from our mood, disposition, and daily performance at work to our professional growth and long-term career plans and goals.

You may believe that your life is capped when you reach a certain age. That as you grow older, your options are limited and there is not much for you to do in your personal and professional life, like changing careers or studying or pursuing a new venture. We at Women Talk Today simply do not believe these to be true! You have what it takes to do anything no matter what age you are!

Overcoming Challenges and Obstacles For many of us, challenges are a daily part of our reality. As women, we face obstacles and difficult situations in our personal lives, relationships, professions, and careers – there is no escaping them. We can experience relationships failing and ending, families falling apart, failing at school, losing jobs and careers. At one point or another, we will reach these crossroads that will push us out of our comfort zones and threaten our foundations and sens...