12: Amy Shepherd on career coaching, its value and why now could be the right time to re-evaluate what’s important to you and how that affects your career choices.

Jane talks to Amy Shepherd, an organisational psychologist and career coach, about how this period of isolation is highlighting what really matters to you and can lead us to making decisions about the work we do. Amy also talks about some tools and ideas for coping with stress and anxiety at the moment. Amy recommends the book Playing Big by Tara Mohr 

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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.