S2 Ep16: Leaving the corporate world & starting out on your own with Ayesha Murray

After yet another morning of stress and strife to get her girls off to school and herself into the office, Ayesha Murray decided she had to make a change. It’s a familiar story that many of our listeners will identify with, but what career opportunities are open to you as a working mum and what will you enjoy? In this episode, Ayesha talks about how she worked out what it was she wanted to do next, and went about building her business and with it her personal brand. She talks about rejection and focus, and her “what’s the worst that can happen” view of trying something new. More details about Ayesha and working with her can be found here and you can check out her podcast - The Parent Equation - here. 

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Why do so many of us go careering into motherhood, unaware of just how hard it is to have a meaningful career as well as family commitments? And why don’t men struggle with their careers in the same way? We talk about the rise of flexible jobs and work anywhere policies, executive burnout and the pressure to be “always on,” Government claims that 75% of mothers are in work, and yet there's being in work and there's having a career. If you’ve had a career break, been on maternity leave, want a career change, want to relaunch yourself back into work or just want a happier balance between work and everything else, Careering Into Motherhood is here with practical advice, insightful interviews and real human stories. Jane Johnson helps empower women and negotiate with employers to offer flexible working so they can stay in their careers. She negotiated her own senior role as a job-share, and in 2019 she set up the Careering Into Motherhood Facebook Group to promote discussion around flexible working, the group now has more than 8,000 members and a successful women’s mentoring programme.