S1 Ep35: The Realities Of Going It Alone & Launching Your Own Business

Jodie Robertson left her job at the start of last year to launch her own business. She’d been thinking of doing something different for a while and, after some career coaching advice, she took the bull by the horns and set up her own independent travel company. But then the pandemic hit, and no one was travelling anywhere.... In this episode Jodie and Jane talk about the realities of starting a business, and running it in the pandemic. Follow Jodie on Instagram @roundtheworld_jo or see www.jodierobertson.co.uk   For more details about Careering Into Motherhood see our website www.careeringintomotherhood.com

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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.