S2 Ep7: From Investment Banker to Children’s Author via 10 Downing Street with Kathy Weeks

Jane talks to Kathy Weeks, former investment banker turned children’s author, about her experience in the cut-throat, alpha-male world of investment banking, finding herself rugby tackling Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street, and her experience of being bullied as a child which she attributes to having played a part in shaping her career today. Kathy‘s new children’s book What’s New Harper Drew? is all about discovering inner confidence and finding the funny in the every day. Kathy is the perfect guest to kick-off our series of episodes all about female confidence. What’s New Harper Drew? is available on Amazon, as an audiobook and at all good bookshops.  You can find out more about Careering into Motherhood on our website.

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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.