Balancing a Career And a Family

In this episode we answer another listeners question by discussing the juggle of being a parent or carer and how to find the balance between them and your work. Lucy opens up about her traumatic pregnancy for her first born, who turned out to be a very happy sleepy baby, allowing her to sail through keeping a healthy connection with her business whilst taking on motherhood head first. However, having a different experience when it came to her second, in overestimating her capacity by taking on a large factory transfer in her business, moving house plus renovating all whilst still being pregnant. She reminisces about her learnings between the two experiences at the early stages of her children's lives. I open up about my mental health dip following the birth of my daughter and how I look back and know what would have helped me rebalance between the new role of mum and my corporate leadership role which I valued and enjoyed so much before (and after) becoming a parent. Moving on to managing the new dynamic between running your home, to your relationship with your partner and how to make things easier and the importance of working as a team. We are no means experts at this because, let’s be honest - we’re all just winging it! So if you have hints and tips that you would share with us, we would love to hear them and share them in future episodes. Do get in touch.