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BBC Journalist to Finance Leader: Danni Hewson on Menopause, Career Change and Money (opens the original)
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A midlife career change that began with perimenopause: Danni Hewson was an experienced BBC journalist who could take anything in her stride until her body had other ideas.Perimenopause slammed her in her thirties, the brain fog wearing her down and undermining her confidence on live television. So she made a plan, moving to the early-morning microphone of Radio Five Live's Wake Up to Money, where she could keep her notes in front of her.Then Covid came, and with yet another restructure, the BBC
When Your Body Speaks: From Chronic Pain to Natural Movement and a Second Act | Wendy Welpton (opens the original)
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“If I look back, there had been signs, and I think we all get very good at accepting and living with signs.”ShareSigns are very rarely bright, flashing, warning lights. In reality, they’re easy to ignore because we’re busy, and change is uncomfortable. It’s only in the rear-view mirror that they are blinding.That said, four seasons into The Wob
Turning a Conversation Into a £68m Business (opens the original)
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The headlines over the summer have not been good for women over 50 looking for work. When Stacey Duguid posted on Insta (@staceyduguid) about her hundreds of job applications going unanswered, she received tens of thousands of responses from women sharing similar stories. It surfaced the very real and devastating impact the AI bias in recruitment screening is having on women in midlife. So I was heartened by my conversation with super scaler extraordinaire, Helen Cannon, founder of Ison Travel.
Hypnotherapy: A Purpose-Led Approach To Identity Shifts and the Antidote to Imposter Syndrome (opens the original)
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We’re deep into the summer holidays and my focus is shattered by the disorder of the days. My baseline bonhomie has dipped as a result although I wasn’t able to make the connection until I spoke with hypnotherapist, Heather Makepeace. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!drvn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c243af5-198e-4429-b8c1-64604f2439eb_1024x1024.jpeg" targ
Leaving the Ladder Down: Vogue, Motherhood and the Mental Rolodex | Dolly Jones (opens the original)
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For twelve years Dolly Jones ran vogue.com, at exactly the moment the fashion world looked most like The Devil Wears Prada. When she went on maternity leave, they threw her a cupcake party. Taa-raa and Toodle Pip, they said. Dolly was now expected to fade away.<source type="im
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