June 1, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart
app Hailey Pearson. Have you ever been fired from a job?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh? That is a deeply personal question.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Because you're such an angel, you wouldn't have been.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, I have been fired from a job.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Would you like to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've got a little bit of PTSD over this, not
in all seriousness. It was in a radio job. My
last radio job was amazing. I loved at This was
my first radio brecky job. I won't say where I was,
but it was. Yeah. I literally have blocked out. I
reckon four years of my life because it made me
(00:53):
hate radio and I love it again now, but I
didn't for a long time. Yeah, I have been. Okay,
so flashback would be ten years ago, eleven years ago maybe,
and I was about seven months pregnant and at the
time in radio very well aware that you get fired.
That you haven't lived in radio until you've been fired.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's the most volatile job in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It just is. It's a short lived job, and that's fine.
I'm very well aware of that. But I have learnt
that there is a way that you do get rid
of people, and you do it with kindness, and mine
wasn't done with kindness. Yeah, it hurt me a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Why did they move you on?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, they were changing the show, it was they were
changing the whole station look and feel. But I was, yeah,
seven months pregnant, and I just wanted answers. I just
wanted to know if I was coming back after I
had my baby. I didn't care really either way. I
just wanted to know just so I could plan. And
I would ask people, am I coming back? Can you
just let me know? No one would say anything, no
one would look me in the eye. And then I
(01:52):
started having full panic attacks where at home I couldn't breathe.
I was just crying. I fell over at home. Mom
and dad like, you need to just have a day off,
just have a mental health day because this is not okay.
So I ended up having a mental health day and
this is something that you radio. You can't have a
day off when you see. So I had a day
off and that obviously caused a bit of chaos at
(02:13):
the station, going okay, well, maybe we need to tell
her what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like they started to be like, has she taken a
day off because she's suspicious.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, they knew, they knew that I was stressed. They
didn't care. It was just a very toxic environment as
at as a pregnant woman. Yeah, but as anyone. Doesn't
even matter if you're not you're pregnant or not. I
was just it was just yeah, anyway, I got the
call saying, okay, can you come to the to the
station and we'll have a chat to you. So at
this point I walked, Oh, this is going to bring
(02:44):
back a whole lot of stuff. I walked past my
boss's office and I walked into a boardroom and two
people that I loved and respected were in there, and
they told me that that I wasn't going to have
a job after I had my baby, and that's fine.
My contract was ending, so that that's okay, obviously sad,
(03:05):
but also fine. I then walked out of that office
past my boss's office, and he didn't look up. He
just sat in front of his desk and just, yeah,
he knew why I was going in. I don't know
why he was never in that meeting. It was weird.
And I walked past and I was a very different
person back then, and that I was a yes person.
I would always do the right thing, and I wouldn't
(03:27):
stand up for myself. So it took a week. I reckon.
It was about five days going past his office every
day and he still didn't talk to me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So I nothing, Yeah, for five days, nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And then I don't know if he remembers this. But
then I was like, well, I guess I need to
go and see this person. So I walked into his
office and like shaking and going, I guess I'm leaving
after four years, and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
And then he said so on air, I reckon, you
should just say you want to be a mum, which
(04:00):
wasn't the case. I was let go of and maybe
it is my.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Fault, My god, what did you say?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, I just took his lead and I went on
the radio station and said I want.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
To leave and just be a mum. Really, do you
regret that?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, because it was a lie. It was a lie. Obviously,
I do want to be a mum, but I want
to be more than just a mom. I wanted to
do a lot of things. I have a lot of
aspirations and I love telling stories. I love being on
the radio.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You weren't ready to be let go of no, So.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Then I got on the radio station and lied. But
that's like the kind of I don't know. There was
a lot of layers to this story. It was very
it wasn't a good time in my life. Maybe there's
a lot of personal stuff going on as well, and
it just wasn't It was awful. And I left and
I thought, I'm never ever going to do radio again.
I will never go back to that, and I will
never let someone make me feel the way I felt.
(04:53):
And then three months later, I'd had my baby and
I came up with that lady and I was like, well,
that's the best thing that ever happened to me, because
if I didn't get fired, I would have gone back
on radio and I would have struggled with having two
little babies and brah brah, and I wouldn't he ever
have started something that I love so much with my
best friend Lauren. And so probably in hindsight, it was
(05:15):
probably the best thing that happened to me. And maybe
the way he treated me was great because it taught
me now as a boss of how I will never
treat somebody else ruthless and I'll never make them feel
like crap.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Have you spoken to this person since.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm shaking? Oh, I said, like nine years thinking about
this kind of stuff, it's going to bring up all
kinds of stuff. Yes, I saw him. I saw him
once and I was nice to him, and obviously he
obviously was going through his own stuff. He was really nice.
He was really nice. But I guess he doesn't know
hurt he calls me, oh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He'll definitely know the fact that he sat there for
five days and let you walk past the office, But.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He probably doesn't remember. He's a big boss. He's got
other things to worry about. He wasn't thinking about me.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
A big boss should sit in the meeting when they
let him go. Yeah, talent, I would have thought on
the air.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But I do often think of this person and think
and thank him for the way he treated me, because
I wouldn't have started something that I love so much.
And I do want to say that there's a lot
of redundancies going on in everywhere at the moment. It's hard.
Life is hard, but sometimes when you're made redundant and
you lose your job, it's the best thing that will
ever happen. To you, because you will reset your brain
(06:27):
and you'll end up doing something that you want to do.
Because quite often people are quite complacent and unhappy in
jobs and they'll wait until something like that happens. So
maybe we can turn this into something nice. And I'd
love to hear your story. If there's something like this
happened to you, you will fired, or you will let
go of or something bad happen and then boom, you
found your dream job.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Land on your feet, okay thirty one two three, give
us a ring for that. Hey, did you give you a.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Little hut or summer?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you can give me a Hug'll come give you
a little agi.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Thirteen one o two three give us a call. You
let go and you bounced back better than ever before.
Look at our own Hailey Pierson here, we're taking those calls,
celebrating you.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Next
My Heart podcasts here more mixed one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart
app Hailey Pearson. Have you ever been fired from a job?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh? That is a deeply personal question.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Because you're such an angel, you wouldn't have been.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, I have been fired from a job.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Would you like to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've got a little bit of PTSD over this, not
in all seriousness. It was in a radio job. My
last radio job was amazing. I loved at This was
my first radio brecky job. I won't say where I was,
but it was. Yeah. I literally have blocked out. I
reckon four years of my life because it made me
(00:53):
hate radio and I love it again now, but I
didn't for a long time. Yeah, I have been. Okay,
so flashback would be ten years ago, eleven years ago maybe,
and I was about seven months pregnant and at the
time in radio very well aware that you get fired.
That you haven't lived in radio until you've been fired.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's the most volatile job in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It just is. It's a short lived job, and that's fine.
I'm very well aware of that. But I have learnt
that there is a way that you do get rid
of people, and you do it with kindness, and mine
wasn't done with kindness. Yeah, it hurt me a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Why did they move you on?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, they were changing the show, it was they were
changing the whole station look and feel. But I was, yeah,
seven months pregnant, and I just wanted answers. I just
wanted to know if I was coming back after I
had my baby. I didn't care really either way. I
just wanted to know just so I could plan. And
I would ask people, am I coming back? Can you
just let me know? No one would say anything, no
one would look me in the eye. And then I
(01:52):
started having full panic attacks where at home I couldn't breathe.
I was just crying. I fell over at home. Mom
and dad like, you need to just have a day off,
just have a mental health day because this is not okay.
So I ended up having a mental health day and
this is something that you radio. You can't have a
day off when you see. So I had a day
off and that obviously caused a bit of chaos at
(02:13):
the station, going okay, well, maybe we need to tell
her what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like they started to be like, has she taken a
day off because she's suspicious.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, they knew, they knew that I was stressed. They
didn't care. It was just a very toxic environment as
at as a pregnant woman. Yeah, but as anyone. Doesn't
even matter if you're not you're pregnant or not. I
was just it was just yeah, anyway, I got the
call saying, okay, can you come to the to the
station and we'll have a chat to you. So at
this point I walked, Oh, this is going to bring
(02:44):
back a whole lot of stuff. I walked past my
boss's office and I walked into a boardroom and two
people that I loved and respected were in there, and
they told me that that I wasn't going to have
a job after I had my baby, and that's fine.
My contract was ending, so that that's okay, obviously sad,
(03:05):
but also fine. I then walked out of that office
past my boss's office, and he didn't look up. He
just sat in front of his desk and just, yeah,
he knew why I was going in. I don't know
why he was never in that meeting. It was weird.
And I walked past and I was a very different
person back then, and that I was a yes person.
I would always do the right thing, and I wouldn't
(03:27):
stand up for myself. So it took a week. I reckon.
It was about five days going past his office every
day and he still didn't talk to me.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So I nothing, Yeah, for five days, nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And then I don't know if he remembers this. But
then I was like, well, I guess I need to
go and see this person. So I walked into his
office and like shaking and going, I guess I'm leaving
after four years, and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
And then he said so on air, I reckon, you
should just say you want to be a mum, which
(04:00):
wasn't the case. I was let go of and maybe
it is my.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Fault, My god, what did you say?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, I just took his lead and I went on
the radio station and said I want.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
To leave and just be a mum. Really, do you
regret that?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, because it was a lie. It was a lie. Obviously,
I do want to be a mum, but I want
to be more than just a mom. I wanted to
do a lot of things. I have a lot of
aspirations and I love telling stories. I love being on
the radio.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You weren't ready to be let go of no, So.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Then I got on the radio station and lied. But
that's like the kind of I don't know. There was
a lot of layers to this story. It was very
it wasn't a good time in my life. Maybe there's
a lot of personal stuff going on as well, and
it just wasn't It was awful. And I left and
I thought, I'm never ever going to do radio again.
I will never go back to that, and I will
never let someone make me feel the way I felt.
(04:53):
And then three months later, I'd had my baby and
I came up with that lady and I was like, well,
that's the best thing that ever happened to me, because
if I didn't get fired, I would have gone back
on radio and I would have struggled with having two
little babies and brah brah, and I wouldn't he ever
have started something that I love so much with my
best friend Lauren. And so probably in hindsight, it was
(05:15):
probably the best thing that happened to me. And maybe
the way he treated me was great because it taught
me now as a boss of how I will never
treat somebody else ruthless and I'll never make them feel
like crap.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Have you spoken to this person since.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I'm shaking? Oh, I said, like nine years thinking about
this kind of stuff, it's going to bring up all
kinds of stuff. Yes, I saw him. I saw him
once and I was nice to him, and obviously he
obviously was going through his own stuff. He was really nice.
He was really nice. But I guess he doesn't know
hurt he calls me, oh huh.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
He'll definitely know the fact that he sat there for
five days and let you walk past the office, But.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
He probably doesn't remember. He's a big boss. He's got
other things to worry about. He wasn't thinking about me.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
A big boss should sit in the meeting when they
let him go. Yeah, talent, I would have thought on
the air.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But I do often think of this person and think
and thank him for the way he treated me, because
I wouldn't have started something that I love so much.
And I do want to say that there's a lot
of redundancies going on in everywhere at the moment. It's hard.
Life is hard, but sometimes when you're made redundant and
you lose your job, it's the best thing that will
ever happen. To you, because you will reset your brain
(06:27):
and you'll end up doing something that you want to do.
Because quite often people are quite complacent and unhappy in
jobs and they'll wait until something like that happens. So
maybe we can turn this into something nice. And I'd
love to hear your story. If there's something like this
happened to you, you will fired, or you will let
go of or something bad happen and then boom, you
found your dream job.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Land on your feet, okay thirty one two three, give
us a ring for that. Hey, did you give you a.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Little hut or summer?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, you can give me a Hug'll come give you
a little agi.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Thirteen one o two three give us a call. You
let go and you bounced back better than ever before.
Look at our own Hailey Pierson here, we're taking those calls,
celebrating you.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
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