S4 Ep15: 5 Obstacles to Career Happiness with Lucy Higgins

Welcome back to the Careering Into Motherhood podcast, our host Jane Johnson engages in a captivating conversation with Lucy Higgins, a certified career coach. Together, they delve into the five most common obstacles to career happiness and offer invaluable strategies for overcoming them. Lucy's expertise shines as she discusses the importance of embracing change, cultivating confidence, honing personal branding, recognizing environmental influences, and attuning to the mind-body connection. It's a conversation full of practical insights and empowering guidance, reminding us that with the right mindset and strategies, we can thrive in both our personal and professional lives. Meet Lucy, an ICF certified career coach with over 20 years experience in Corporate Communications. She is passionate about helping unfulfilled Mums find work life happiness and harmony.If you want to be empowered to achieve your personal and professional potential, get in touch with lucy over on her Careering into Motherhood page Lucy Higgins - Careering into Motherhood. And, if you're a Coach interested in joining the Careering into Motherhood partnership programme, find out more here Become a Partner Coach - Careering into Motherhood where you'll also find details of all of our Coaching Partners and a library full of coaching tools to help working mums find fulfilment.

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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.