Career Interrupted

Imagine standing at the threshold of your home, bailiffs hammering at the door, knowing that once you step outside you'll be homeless. On top of that, your husband has just been diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative disease. 

In one single moment, you’re forced to wave goodbye to a life you spent 20 years building while also losing hope for everything that might have come next. 

For Raynor Winn, it was in this moment of ...

What happens when your carefully built career suddenly... crumbles?

For Susannah De Jager, who was a hedge fund CEO at 32, it was losing her biggest client at work and realising her role was untenable while watching one of her closest friends die of cancer that upended everything. 

For Patsy Day, it was crashing her husband’s car after months of bone-crushing burnout that saw her hit the pause button.

But after resetting the course of...

Four years ago, Fern Fuller was juggling it all – a single mum with a full-time job as an Executive Assistant, COVID-induced home-schooling chaos, and the curveball that is perimenopause. 

Cue a moment of complete exhaustion that saw Fern sliding down the wall of her home office thinking, “I just can’t do this anymore.”

Fern knew something had to change... then she found TechPixies.

Why you should tune in

Come and discover how, in just...

There’s been an explosion in the popularity of collagen supplements over the past few years, and social media feeds are now full of posts from influencers bigging up the benefits.

If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, you’ll probably have turned to Google and come across a dizzying amount of information.

But there’s one woman who is determined to cut through the noise after founding Ancient + Brave, a company that has gone ...

What if 12 emails could completely transform how you think about your future?

What if you could wake up and find that the familiar voice that says ‘there has to be more to life than this’ has been replaced by a sense of excitement? Because you realise you finally know where you’re headed and exactly what you need to do to get there.

Joy Foster, TechPixies founder & CEO, spent years going from one job to the ne...

Jenn Barnett turned a life-altering health crisis into a life-affirming career pivot. 

But a comprehensive survey of 600+ mid-career professional women (those with 10-25 years’ experience), commissioned by Jenn in her role as head of equity, inclusion, and diversity at Grant Thornton UK, has revealed that pivoting your career comes with its own set of challenges.  

So while her report found that: 

💠 62% of women h...

If you’re neurodiverse…

Or know someone who is constantly battling an exhausting cycle of trying to fit in to workplaces that just don’t seem to get them…

Or you’re an employer and want to better understand how you create a more inclusive workplace…

You need to get Lillie Jamieson and her sister Alex on speed dial.

Because after receiving their own diagnoses for ADHD and autism and realising tha...

We all know gender inequality exists in the workplace. 

But there’s another kind of bias that’s been quietly derailing women’s careers… and it’s time we brought it into the spotlight. 

 
According to Napala Pratini, co-founder of Habitual, a revolutionary digital platform helping people lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes, studies show that women living with obesity are often seen as ‘less productive, less professional, lacki...

Feeling like your energy’s on empty? Struggling to climb the stairs without needing a breather? Metabolism slowed to a snail’s pace? 

Welcome to the rollercoaster of perimenopause and post-menopause, where hormones go haywire, energy tanks, and your body suddenly seems to be working against you.

But you don’t have to just push through the fatigue, brain fog, and muscle loss any longer.

In this episode of Career Interrupted, women’s he...

Would you walk away from a high-paying job…

…with no backup plan, a new baby, and a hefty mortgage on a new house?

This was exactly the situation Dr Victoria Stakelum was faced with when she returned from maternity leave and found the toxic culture she’d worked so hard to transform had returned… in little more than 8 weeks.

Faced with a choice between job security and integrity, Victoria opted to take a big, bold leap into t...

Heavy, painful periods: the £8.4 billion problem nobody was solving.

You’ve seen the ads – smiling women skipping through their ‘time of the month’ like it’s no big deal.

But if you live with heavy, painful periods, you know the truth is anything but.
Crippling pain, constant leaks and anxiety about leaving the house without a change of clothes.

And it’s not just your body and emotions taking a hit – your wallet feels it too, from...

If you think it’s too late to reinvent yourself and turn the seed of a business idea into something that can make an impact, Laura Harnett’s story is one for you.

After setting up Seep, an eco-friendly cleaning tools business that has sold (among other things) more than a million plastic-free, 100% compostable sponge scourers, Laura went on Dragons’ Den and won investment from the Dragons she came in to impress. 

...

Would a life-changing health diagnosis stop you in your tracks or spur you on to create something extraordinary? 

For Georgina Colman, being diagnosed with MS has been the catalyst for a business that is making a difference to the lives of disabled people around the UK.

And it all started when Georgina made a startling observation while out shopping with her son: she saw discounts everywhere for students, carers and parents, but noth...

Losing a job once is tough. Losing it twice? That’s an emotional rollercoaster that forces you to dig deep. 

For Avneet Sachdeva, her redundancies were a challenge, but they also became an opportunity to channel her entrepreneurial spirit. And today, she empowers women to embrace a wealth mindset as a wealth coach (her Insta is jam-packed with clever tips!).

What does it mean to be wealthy?
But Avneet believes that bein...

What does ‘winning’ mean to you?

As a World Champion rower, three-time Olympian and Olympic silver medallist, Cath Bishop spent a decade embedded in a high-performance winning culture.

But when Cath transitioned from the world of elite sport into diplomacy, she expected to leave the will to win behind. Instead, she discovered that from classrooms to boardrooms, society is obsessed with winning,

And it’s an obsession that is ...

*This podcast episode discusses trauma, which some listeners may find triggering. 

In 1989, tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, and the world watched in horror as a brutal moment in history unfolded.

But for Philippa Smethurst, who was teaching in China at the time, the impact was more than headline – it was witnessed firsthand in the tear-streaked faces of her students, mourning friends and loved ones lost to the violence...

Let’s be honest: most of us want more of it, and most of us want the money we do have to work harder for us.  

What if you could download a free app that looked at your current finances and then helped you make a plan to get them to where you want them to be? 

Enter Elisabeth Prager, the co-founder of Alia Money, the personal trainer you can pop in your pocket that helps you master your money.

Because her...

Hands up if you’ve been through any of these:

✅ Redundancy
✅ Bereavement
✅ Divorce
✅ Caring for elderly parents
✅ Chronic illness
✅ Menopause
✅ Abuse
✅ Raising tricky teenagers

Chances are, you’ve just ticked a few boxes and maybe you’re still feeling the aftershocks.

Here’s the thing: By the time women hit 50, more than half have faced at least five major life upheavals. And l...

“People will have negative opinions about you and every single thing you do. Let them.” 
– Mel Robbins

Everyone is talking about Mel Robbins’ latest book, The Let Them Theory. And trust us when we say you’ll be nodding along to what she has to say.

In it, Mel shares her own struggle with promoting herself on social media when she first started as a motivational speaker. 

Despite having a vision for her business, she hesitated, wor...