Comeback Coach
Feeling shaky after maternity or another long leave from work? COMEBACK COACH is the wobbly-bottomed podcast about kickass comebacks with coaching psychologist and author, Jessica Chivers. She’s exactly what you need when you’re riding the return-to-work rollercoaster.
Wed, April 02, 2025
102. COMEBACK - Helena Morrissey - ex CEO - 9 maternity leaves - pay rise negotiations - 30% club founder - finances after a break
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, today I’m talking to Baroness Helena Morrissey, ex CEO of Newton Asset Management, founder of the 30% Club and founding ambassador of AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign to help women feel good about investing. She’s also the mother of nine children and author of A Good Time to Be a Girl . We talk about how to ask for a promotion and the power of holding silence when you do. The gender ISA gap, pensions and investing for children. Helena’s experience of returning to work after nine maternity leaves. The psychology of what we wear at work. Helena’s top tips for returning to work after a break. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, March 19, 2025
101. COMEBACK - Francesca Woodhouse - Edelman – proactive career management – working FT with 4 kids – having true partnership at home
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, today I’m talking to Francesca Woodhouse who is the MD of UK Workplace Advisory at Edelman and mother of four children. She works full time and is married to Lewis who also works full time as a Head of Communications. You’re going to hear Francesca talk about: The need to proactively managing your career. Moving between freelancing and employment. Key habits that support working full time and caring for four children. The difference having a true partner at home makes to your life. Francesca’s experience of being a disgruntled middle manager. Before we glide into the conversation with Francesca, three thank yous to listeners who’ve left a review of COMEBACK COACH on Apple Podcasts since the last episode: Simone wrote: “Wonderful podcast on the realities of corporate career life. Always get great inspiration and some actionable tips to try out.” Lizi left this review: “ I really enjoy listening to the podcast and hearing how other women manage the career and family juggle but mainly I just love hearing Jesica’s take on the world. It’s impossible not to feel uplifted, energised and inspired listening to her.” And thank you to Geeko1003 who says: Jessica expertly navigates the emotional and performance issues for everyone at work. The tools, tips, and insights help to create an inclusive workplace. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, March 05, 2025
100. LIVE SPECIAL - Raising your career through the Primary School years - candid chat with Amanda Newman, Liz Twiney, Emmie Faust & Rachel Maguire
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, in this episode we go beyond the comeback and discuss the habits, resources, ways of working and ways of thinking that help support career development when you have young children. We recorded this episode in front of a live audience at Arcadis, London - one of our treasured clients. My guests are all professional women who have 13 children between them and they've all previously been on the podcast. They were tremendously candid for which I am truly grateful. Emmie Faust – exited founder, investor and founder of Female Founders Rise. Past coachee of Jessica. COMEBACK COACH past podcast guest episode 52. Amanda Newman – Accenture. COMEBACK COACH past podcast guest episode 21. Rachel Maguire – Earl Kendrick. COMEBACK COACH past podcast guest episode 19. Liz Twiney – BlackRock. Past coachee of Jessica. COMEBACK COACH past podcast guest episode 13. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, February 19, 2025
99. JUST JESSICA - Psychology of crying at work – how to limit damage to your career + what managers should do when a team member cries
Ask me a Q Hello Brights Minds, I’ve been thinking a lot about displays of emotions at work because of the increasing number of women I’ve been coaching over the last 12 months who’ve described being taken by surprise by their tears and worrying about the implications. It tuns out there’s some pretty complex psychology at play when it comes to how crying at work can potentially affect our reputation. I’m Jessica Chivers, a psychologist and executive coach. For the last 20 years I’ve been coaching leaders, senior professionals and high potential individual contributors during career transitions and challenging times. The work always involves an element of increasing their understanding of themselves and I’ll often bring in evidenced-based insights from the world of psychology and related disciplines to help with that ('psychoeducation'). In this episode I cover: My new comeback coaching research published by the British Psychological Society . Why we cry (including some gender differences). [05:41] What’s been happening for the women I’ve been coaching who have been crying at work. [08:19] What co-workers are likely to be thinking when they see a colleague cry (where I explain ‘cognitive scripts’ and ‘attribution theory’) [11:06] What the research tells us is the best thing to do to mitigate any negative downsides of crying at work. [18:30] What managers need to do when they see a team member cry (where I explain some nasty gender biases) [22:11] What repeated crying at work might be telling you. [25:37] REFERENCES Becker, W., Conroy, S., Djurdjevic, E. & Gross, M. (2018). Crying is in the eyes of the beholder: an attribution theory framework of crying at work. Emotion Review, 10(2), 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917706766 Elsbach, K.D. and Bechky, B.A (2018). How observers assess women who cry in professional work contexts. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4(2), 127-154. Gelstein, S. et al (2011) Human tears contain a chemosignal. Science, 331, 226-230 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1198331 Malle, B. F. (2006). The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution: A (surprising) meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132 , 895-919. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.132.6.895 Tiedens, L.Z. (2001). Anger and advancement versus sadness and subjugation: The effect of negative emotion expressions on social status confer
Wed, February 05, 2025
98. COACH – Amber – career change + not burning bridges when you have multiple (potential) job offers
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest coachee today is Amber (not her real name), a past coachee of mine who I worked with years and years ago and is now on the brink of making a second career change. She wanted to have a space to think about how to navigate relationships with different organisations that she’s in parallel recruitment processes with. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with coachees years down the line after their first coaching engagement and it’s so wonderful to see how they’ve changed and to reconnect. If you would like to have a (free) one-time coaching conversation with me that we will record and share as an episode of COMEBACK COACH, take a look here . Link to tickets for the LIVE-IN-REAL-LIFE GATHERING for the recording of episode 100: BEYOND THE COMEBACK - Raising your career through the Primary School years (26/2/25). MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, January 22, 2025
97. COMEBACK – Caroline Smith – The Entertainer – Relentless resilience job hunting after redundancy – being a wildcard candidate - senior marketing women struggling to land jobs
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I am really happy to be back with a very vibrant episode to kick off season eight where Marketing Director Caroline Smith from the toy shop, The Entertainer talk about: Making sideways and strategic ‘downward’ career moves. Finding unexpected fresh drive and ambition after maternity leave. Job search challenges and strategies. Being the wildcard candidate. Nourishing your professional network. Using LinkedIn to showcase your expertise. Discipline and structure during the job-search journey. Caroline’s advice for making a comeback. >>>> If you're listening before 19th February 2025 you're in time to get a ticket for the LIVE recording of episode 100: " BEYOND THE COMEBACK: Raising your career through the Primary School Years" in London on 26/2/25. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, December 03, 2024
96. COMEBACK - Beth Wooller - Strategy Manager at Sainsburys - sabbatical - burnout - a break from hitting the next career goal - writing a book + interior design
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, keen eyes might notice that this episode is out a day earlier than usual. I’ve chosen to release this episode of Tuesday 3rd December to tie-in with International Day of Person’s with a Disability. And it feels fitting to have saved this episode to the last in the current season on COMEBACK COACH because we’re talking about the power of a sabbatical to refresh, re-energise and have a bit of a rest, which I hope you’ll get later in the month. My guest today is Beth Wooller, a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Sainsbury’s Head Office where she’s also the founder and Chair of Enable , the first ever Sainsbury’s Disability Network. Beth started her career as a Management Consultant at Deloitte, having graduated from Cambridge University and has a lifetime of experience living and working with a hearing loss. She is dedicated to helping people with disabilities and differences excel and focuses on raising awareness, increasing confidence and simplifying workplace processes to better support people with disabilities. Beth has recently been listed as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100. 11 years into her career and feeling burned out, Beth took a sabbatical from her corporate role to reset, continue her disability work, and gain her professional qualification in Interior Design with the National Design Academy. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, November 20, 2024
95. Rebecca Andrews - Pilot - missing your job - returning to flying after maternity leave - yes YOU CAN still do it!
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, This is the penultimate episode of season seven of COMEBACK COACH and it’s inspired by my 16 year old daughter Artemis, who wants to become a pilot. This is something she decided upon at the start of the year and since then I have had many happy drives around the M25 to Heathrow airport to watch A380 planes come in and take off this year. Plane spotting is actually a lot of fun. My guest today is Rebecca Andrews is a pilot and a few months ago she returned to the flight deck after her second maternity leave. We’ve been chatting over WhatsApp for about six months and we recorded two separate chats. In the first part you’re going to get to hear how Rebecca was feeling about returning to the air before she started her re-induction training in the simulator. Then in the second chat you’ll find out how she’s feeling now that she’s back at work and into the reality of working parenthood and managing two pilot schedules alongside two little children. Yes, she’s married to a pilot. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, November 06, 2024
94. COMEBACK – Laura Scougall – ITV – redundancy risk on maternity leave – being open at work about demands at home (autistic son) – how to get back to sleep
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my conversation today is with Laura Scougall, Head of ITV Academy. Knowing Laura is a chatty, confident person we decided to make it a freeform conversation without any pre-agreed questions so it’s a bit of a random episode that covers a lot of ground. We talked about: How to get back to sleep after being up with a baby or an 18 year old in my case. Coping with being placed at risk of redundancy and dragged out of your maternity bubble to think about finding another job. Not introducing yourself in meetings with an apology. Why I walk around my garden barefoot when I first wake up. The daily additional stress of being a working parent of a little boy with autism. Being totally open at work about what’s going on at home. Having the confidence to ask colleagues to reschedule a meeting that you can’t make last minute. Being generous with positive feedback. Laura’s wobbly moments and tips for coming back to work after maternity leave which includes leaning into the chaos. I hope you get plenty from it and if you do, please would you leave a short review and a rating wherever you listen. Thank you so much. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 23, 2024
93. COMEBACK - Sarah Banks - Arcadis - Adjusting to big changes at work after maternity leave – benefits of being main earner - what is a company shadow board?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Sarah Banks from Arcadis, the global design and engineering company. Sarah has two little children and was promoted after both of her maternity leaves. We have a wide-ranging conversation including: Challenges and benefits of after work socialising. KIT days. Being the main earner in her family. Being surprised by feeling a drop in confidence. Worrying about not being able to do her job when she came back. The shadow board that Arcadis has put in place in the Places part of the business to bridge the generational gap between employees and the leadership team and avoid groupthink. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 09, 2024
92. COMEBACK - Tara Ferguson - breast cancer - working through treatment - medically-induced menopause - how to stop women leaving in their 40s + 50s?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds. My guest today is someone who wanted a platform to talk about her experience of continuing to work on and off during breast cancer treatment with the single goal of helping others find their way through this really difficult time. Tara Ferguson is an Associate Director within the People team of a medium sized bio-tech business. She’s worked in a number of different sectors and types of business, in roles ranging from People Business Partner to Lead Coach to Employee Wellbeing Manager, in a career spanning over 20 years. She lives in Scotland with her husband Andy and teenage daughter Charlotte - enjoying cold water swimming, CrossFit, reading and time with family in her spare time. We talk about: Deciding not to walk away from work completely for the duration of her treatment. Coming back on a phased return at the end of last period of chemotherapy. What best in class line manager support looks and sounds like. The impact of a medically induced menopause. How businesses can hang onto women and turn the tide of the numbers of women walking away when they hit menopause. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, September 25, 2024
91. COMEBACK – Dan Hewitt – Ocado – navigating the pull between career and family – having coaching – am I having impact at work?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I hope you’re on good form and thank you for choosing to listen to this episode of Comeback Coach. Dan Hewitt is the Head of Talent Management and Development at Ocado, the UK online-only supermarket HQ-ed in Hertfordshire just down the road from me. When Dan came back from a few months of paternity leave he thought he was going to stay in a comfortable place professionally, not striving for the next job. This was so he could focus on family, but that was not to be and Dan moved into a bigger, stretch role. REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE Summary paper of Erik De Haan’s meta-analysis of coaching using only randomised controlled trials. What Can We Know about the Effectiveness of Coaching? A Meta-Analysis Based Only on Randomized Controlled Trials MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, September 11, 2024
90. JUST JESSICA - Boundaries - psychological job control - why bosses need to talk about downtime (but not tell us not to work weekends and evenings)
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, this episode is inspired by the previous where my guest, Ramona Aning from Ketchum, talked about how her CEO is open about family time and downtime. I'm geeking out on "psychological job control" and "segmentation norms" which are talked about in a new paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology titled The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict. As ever, there are practical takeaways from the episode which include the five questions bosses can ask in team meetings and 1:1s to ensure their people are getting the downtime they need. The paper I refer to was published in 2023 and can be found here: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joop.12426 MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, August 28, 2024
89. COMEBACK – Ramona Aning – Ketchum – setting boundaries at work after maternity leave – being yourself – sussing out a company’s culture before you join
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I am really happy to be back with a very vibrant episode to kick off season seven. We ended season six with an episode on the psychology of focus and attention and how to adapt your day when you wake up absolutely shattered. And you loved it and you told me so and I’m so thankful that you did because my brain runs on little drip-drip doses of positive feedback. Today I’m bringing you a conversation with Ramona Aning, a coachee of ours from Ketchum, the PR and marketing communications consultancy. She returned to her role as an account director after maternity leave earlier this year and we go into depth on: Holding boundaries at work, and how Ramona became adept at this. The signs Ramona spotted during the recruitment process for her role at Ketchum that told her it was going to be a place where she could be herself. How she found people to connect with on maternity leave via the Peanut app and how helpful those friendships have been as she returned to work Plus Ramona’s wobbliest moment as she returned to work. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, June 26, 2024
88. JUST JESSICA - Finding focus when you’re stretched and shattered – psychology of attention – deep work - coachees' top tips for traction
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I hope you’re on good form and by the end of this episode got a better sense of how you can help yourself find focus, sustain your attention and experience traction. I'm Jessica Chivers , a coaching psychologist, author and developer of the Comeback Community employee experience, of which this podcast is a part. The idea for this episode has been stirring in mind for some time because focus is a frequent source of conversation with coachees who are returning to work from maternity leave with less time on their hands than they had pre-baby. If you’re not a new parent or a parent at all I think you’ll get plenty from listening to the psychology and my personal hacks that I’m going to share with you. REFERENCES Ficca, G., Axelsson, J., Mollicone, D. J., Muto, V., & Vitiello, M. V. (2010). Naps, cognition and performance. Sleep medicine reviews , 14 (4), 249-258. Leroy, s. (2009). Why is it so hard to do my work? The challenge of attention residue when switching between work tasks. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , 109 (2) 168-181: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749597809000399 MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, June 12, 2024
87. JUST JESSICA - neuropsychology of therapeutic writing - what, how, when, why?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I'm inspired to bring you this episode as I've been invited to be part of a 'Human Library' at CIPD's Festival of Work where my title is "How to not burnout as a parent of a neurodiverse or challenge child." Journaling or 'free-writing' as a I call it has been one of my consistently useful coping tools, especially over the last two years, and I'll be talking about that. I'm talking you through the science of a very specific journaling protocol that has a very significant evidence base in the academic research literature. It was developed by Professor James Pennebaker in 1986. Here are the links I mention in the episode: Caremail: https://www.subscribepage.com/comebackcommunity Huberman Lab podcast 20/11/23 A Science-Supported Journaling Protocol to Improve Mental & Physical Health: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/a-science-supported-journaling-protocol-to-improve-mental-physical-health Professor James Pennebaker research: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/pennebak Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing (summary of research findings) by Baikie & Wilhelm (2018) published in Advances of Psychiatric Treatment: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-psychiatric-treatment/article/emotional-and-physical-health-benefits-of-expressive-writing/ED2976A61F5DE56B46F07A1CE9EA9F9F Therapist Uncensored podcast episode 225 with James Pennebaker: https://therapistuncensored.com/episodes/neuroscience-proven-writing-protocol-james-pennebaker-225/ Opening Up by Writing It Down: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GK5817W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&link_code=as3&camp=2506&creative=9298&creativeASIN=184850319
Wed, May 29, 2024
86. COMEBACK - Emma Young - Firefighter – speaking up when things aren’t right at work – trying to change maternity policy - 'boreout' + psychology of uncertainty
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, at the end of 2023 I read about a landmark legal victory for a former Avon Fire and Rescue Service employee, Sasha Acheson, who won her sex discrimination case against the organisation. Reading that piece got me curious about the experiences of female firefighters after they’ve notified their employer that they’re pregnant; what it’s like to have to shift from active frontline duty to something else and what it’s like to return to an environment where you may not have a single colleague near you who understands what you’ve been through. My guest today is NOT that former employee but a Emma Young, a female firefighter who has a lot to say about what it’s like to be a pregnant woman in the fire service. Emma has a 15 month old daughter and she’s currently pregnant with her second, a pregnancy that she found out about just as she was returning from maternity leave. You’re going to hear about: How Emma navigated the lack of maternity policy and the difference a good line manager can make in uncertain circumstances. Lack of knowledge in the fire service around the needs of a person who is put on modified duties. The impact of a disconnect between what organisations say they want to do to be inclusive and what happens in practice. And as ever, my guest’s wobbliest moment as she returned to work, a high point and Emma’s three top tips. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, May 15, 2024
85. COACH - Sabeha - designing your ideal work week - how to be more present at home - experiencing more joy
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest coachee today is Sabeha, a first time mother based in London who has returned to work for a Californian tech company. It's a conversation about the tension that exists within us when we want to give more to work and also be present at home - and the specific challenge of working for a US organisation who comes online as your working day is drawing to a close. In this coaching session we explore: How to experience more joy, not just “getting through it” as a working parent. Wanting to work more hours than you’re able to. Discomfort and tension leaving work before you feel ready to, to be with your child(ren) Tensions with our partner about what time we go ‘on duty’ caring for our child(ren) MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, May 01, 2024
84. COMEBACK - Yvette Bramley - Psychologist – my most upbeat guest – how to feel success and get a grip on guilt – is it OK to change your mind about career aspirations?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Yvette Bramley, a woman who describes herself as a full time mum and part time business psychologist. She works with the Quality Team at Lexxic, a specialist psychological consultancy and the focus of her role is ensuring the quality their delivery and reports through training, audits, spot checks and actioning client feedback. She proudly tole me after we’d chatted that was she was always a “weird” kid growing up and hopes she continues being the weird one. She also told me – and I quote: " Patience does not come naturally to me and I am a control “freak” but it works for my family. However, my daughter has taught me to be more relaxed and spontaneous. I no longer live life focusing on the next qualification or physical achievement. I now live to have fun and experience as much joy daily as possible". Yvette is my most energetic guest yet and you’re going to hear about: Why KIT days are a brilliant thing to do when you’re on maternity leave. Getting comfortable with changing your mind about career development activities you simply don’t want to find the time and energy for now you’re a working parent. Recognising how successful you already are and remembering to question self-talk that suggests otherwise. COMEBACK COACH is part of a broader package of support that we call the Comeback Community employee experience. It’s a blend of online resources, coaching, live expert Q&As, career development tools and line manager support that we deliver in organisations such as ITV, Lily’s Kitchen, GAM Investments, Federated Hermes, Veolia and more. Find out more and help us start a conversation with your HR team at www.comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, April 17, 2024
83. JUST JESSICA - Managing rumination + keeping healthy habits when you’re consumed with problems at work + psychology of meditation
Ask me a Q This short “JUST JESSICA EPISODE” is about managing rumination, how to keep healthy habits going when you’re consumed by work and the psychology of mindful meditation. It’s inspired by a particular coaching conversation I had one Tuesday a few weeks ago. I put these episodes together myself without the lovely Chris cleaning up bumps in the sound or adding in the swanky intro and outro and I hope you get something from it. If you do I’d love it if you shared it with someone else who you think might like it too. The "DAILY CHECK-IN" tool you can download and print for your wellbeing: https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dailycheckin.pdf The meditation mantras I mentioned in this episode: Hummee Hum – The Other is you by Mirabai Cieba (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CFI0hslXv8 Ramadasa by Satkirin Kaur Khalsa (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVewRvqNrE The article I mentioned about meditation and the DMN on the Mindfulness Association’s website : https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/science-of-mindfulness/meditation-and-the-default-mode-network/ MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, April 03, 2024
82. COACH - Brian Ballantyne - redundancy from Amazon - opportunities on gardening leave - psychology of being 'at risk' of redundancy
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, this is a very different episode to anything I’ve done before. Brian is a chap whose energy, openness and actions around supporting fathers I’ve admired on LinkedIn for quite some time. Throughout the time Brian and I have been in each others’ orbits he’s worked for Amazon as a Program Manager in Luxembourg, whilst also training to be a coach. In June last year (2023) I spotted a very candid post from Brian about expecting to be made redundant so I got in touch to offer my condolences and to tell him how much I liked reading what he was writing about what he was anticipating and we started swapping voice notes. I do love a voice note! I asked Brian whether he’d be up for coming on the podcast later in the year when he’d made his comeback and then a thought occurred to me: why don’t we document, through voice notes, what’s happening for Brian on the run up to redundancy and what happens next. I do all of this with you in mind dear listener – I’m constantly thinking about how I can bring you ideas, insights and tips to make your comeback smoother, easier and more enjoyable. I’m also always wanting to bring you the hard stuff that people are going through and the emotions they’re experiencing as a way to give you hope when you’re going through similar struggles. At the end of the episode you’re also going to hear from Dr Madeline Stevens who is the author of Strategic Redundancy Implementation: Re-Focus, Re-Organise and Re-Build. She knows a lot about how to help people through redundancy. . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, March 20, 2024
81. COMEBACK – Michaela Thomas – Clinical Psychologist - relationship satisfaction after baby – keeping perfectionism in check - ADHD and returning to work
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Michaela Thomas , a clinical psychologist I’ve been really looking forward to chatting to because we’ve been batting voice notes back and forth for about a year and then I heard Michaela on a podcast I’ve been lapping up over the last 9 months (Kate Moryousef's ADHD WOMEN'S WELLBEING ) that was the galvanising stroke to get Michaela on. I originally wanted to have a chat with Michaela about how to keep partner/spousal relationships feeling good once you have a baby and go back to work and the pressure ramps up drawing upon her own lived experience as well as her professional insight. She’s the author of a book called The Lasting Connection – which is about developing compassion for yourself and your partner - and has a podcast called Pause Purpose Play . I’ve since learned that Michaela also has a special interest in perfectionism and she has an ADHD brain and is starting to do more work in that area too. Given my recent diagnosis of ADHD and our growing interest in neurodiversity as a coaching team my mind I thought wow, let’s get Michaela on to talk about her return to work and all of these things. So, you have an extra long episode today because there’s so much I wanted to chat to her about. If you like what you hear from Michaela then you can find her on Instagram @the_thomas_connection and Facebook @TheThomasConnection. **Michaela is going to be joining me on Tuesday 21st May 2024 12 NOON for a live Q&A on HOW TO LIVE & WORK WELL WITH AN ANXIOUS MIND AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES . The Q&A is part of the Comeback Community employee experience programme and once our clients have had first dibs we open spare spots to all absolutely free**. . . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us <a href='https://comebackc
Wed, March 06, 2024
80. COMEBACK - Lianne Baker - Enfuse – making family as childcare run smoothly – working on maternity leave isn’t a bad thing – knowing your worth
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Lianne Baker, Head of People & Culture at Enfuse who had surprise baby number three last year and we caught up at the end of her five month maternity leave. Lianne is an award-winning People professional with over 15 years’ experience working within TV for Endemol, publishing for Condé Nast, recruitment, hospitality and now for Enfuse, a digital transformation management consultancy. Since joining Enfuse Group, she has been focused on culture and engagement, bringing in forward thinking and inclusive policies. Enfuse Group is recognised as a Great Place to Work, Top 5 Best Companies and best new Management Consultancy at the MCA Awards. Lianne has previously spoken up about the importance of flexible working to enable parents to parent as well as have a career in addition to writing various articles of managing IVF and Fertility treatment alongside work. You’re going to hear about: How to have smooth harmonious relationships with family members who care for your children. Wanting to work during maternity leave and how to communicate that to your team. Tips for returning to a new role and/or a new organisation after a period of extended leave. Owning your decisions and tuning into what’s right for you and your family. Knowing your worth and feeling good at work. And as always the wobbliest moment and peak moment of my guest’s return to work experience. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, February 21, 2024
79. COMEBACK – Ros Kwok – When divorce drives a return to work – 50 job application rejections – psychology of hope
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Ros Kwok, a woman I was introduced to after asking one of the wonderful Partners at our past podcast sponsor, Rayden Solicitors if she had a client who had had to return to work due to a change in financial circumstances following divorce. Thank you Emily Watson for coming up trumps in less than 24 hours! And you’ll also hear from Emily at the end of the episode where we talk through several questions about divorce, spousal maintenance and arbitration. **LINK TO "MOTHERS WALK" on 8/3/24 for International Women's Day** Ros is originally from Singapore and came to study in the UK. She became a stay at home mum after she had children and when her youngest went to nursery she took a part time job in a nursery and after four years became a freelance photographer. When the divorce happened she was told to get a proper job, was forced to sell all of her photography equipment and then made 50 applications for jobs, and got only one interview. That interview was with John Lewis – I love JLP sooooo much – but even that didn’t work out. Fast forward to today and Ros IS working for John Lewis and she’s worked her way from an entry level role to being a fashion merchandiser and instagmmer for JLP. Today Ros is thriving and this episode talks about how she got there. I think many employers are recognising just how destabilising any big life can be for their people and divorce is right up there. If you’re going through divorce or it’s on your mind I’m sending you all the love because I know how hellish it can be. I’m a child of divorced parents and I have people around me going through divorce at the moment. To you all I send love and hope, more of which at the end of the episode. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, February 07, 2024
78. COMEBACK - Andrea Byrne – ITV Newsreader - projecting confidence when you don’t feel it – YES you can still do your job – how to have NO GUILT ‘me time’
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Andrea Byrne, one of the faces of ITV News and a past coachee of mine. She anchors the BAFTA award-winning daily news programme Wales at Six, as well as ITV’s national bulletins. This includes ITV Weekend News, Lunchtime News, Evening News and News at Ten and Prince Harry is among the many high-profile names she has interviewed. Andrea also presents the current affairs programme Wales This Week; hosts her own fertility podcast ‘Making Babies’; and is a Tedx speaker. She has recently been nominated for several broadcast awards for her documentary work. She is an ambassador for ‘The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme’ and a Non-Executive Director for Hockey Wales. Andrea is married to Wales and Lions legend Lee Byrne. She is passionate about wellbeing and pioneered the introduction of Mental Health First Aiders in ITV’s newsrooms. Away from the newsroom, she is a keen yogi, a novice stand-up paddle-boarder and a budding novelist! In this conversation with Andrea you’re going to hear about: Remembering how good you are at your job before you start back. Why it’s a good idea not to expect too much of yourself when you first return to work. It not being selfish or wrong to want to have time to yourself or not liking every moment of parenthood even when your child was very hard ‘won’ as Andrea’s daughter Jemima was. Pitching to be involved in projects and activities that are outside of your role. The time it takes to adjust to working parenthood. And a few random bits about the psychology of perfume and what wearing stretchy clothing does to our minds. We do also talk about baby loss and miscarriage towards the end where Andrea shares something harrowing that happened to her when she was about to do a very significant day of broadcasting. And as always you’ll get to hear the wobbliest moment and peak moment of my guest’s return to work experience as well as her three top tips for returning to work after a break. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Commun
Wed, January 24, 2024
77. COMEBACK – Joanna Jacobs – Twinings – Can your career recover from a career break? (YES) - Using LinkedIn to get talking to potential employers
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, and welcome to the start of season six of COMEBACK COACH. I am so pleased to be back sharing stories and coaching sessions about returning to work and onward career development after a break. My guest today is Joanna Jacobs who took a career break straight after maternity leave from Vodafone. Prior to that she was living in Shanghai and working for Sainsburys, sussing out whether China would be a viable market for them and now she’s the HR Director for UK Twinings Commercial. In between Vodafone and Twinings she experimented with a few things including the library assistant role (which wasn’t for her!) If you are thinking about taking a career break or you’re on one now you are in for an energising treat because this is a conversation that shows it IS possible to have a gratifying and stretching career after a significant career break. You’re going to hear about: A useful way to think about your career break when you describe it to recruiters and potential employers. The power of experimentation and doing dramatically different work to what you used to do. How to set about finding a new role in the sector you were in before. Also Jo’s wobbliest moment when she returned to work and her top tips for coming back from a career break. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, December 27, 2023
76. JUST JESSICA - Do you know your needs? | Developing your intuition | How to focus on your career as well as your job?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds and welcome to another JUST JESSICA episode of COMEBACK COACH where I’m reflecting on three things that have been top of mind for me lately that I think could be useful to you too. I’m a coaching psychologist, author and founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists which is home to the Comeback Community employee experience of which this podcast is a part. A few weeks ago I went away for three days, two night by myself to my favourite hotel in Cornwall. It’s something I booked in September – when they were doing an offer - in anticipation of needing a break from home. None of the girlfriends I asked to go with me could commit and so I decided to book to go solo. And this solo trip brings together three things I wanted to mull over here: Knowing your needs The power of a solo trip to develop your intuition How to focus on your career as well as your job In this episode I mentioned an article on Psychologytoday.com and our COMEBACK CONVERSATION live Q&A listings. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, November 22, 2023
75. COMEBACK - Phil Bush - Sabbatical from Euromonitor – supporting partner’s return from maternity – sick baby – volunteering on leave
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Phil Bush, a Credit Control Manager for Euromonitor International in London where he’s worked for 17 years. He responsible for managing a department that collects unpaid debt for the business and minimises financial risk to the company. He lives in Brighton with his partner Jo and their 15 month old daughter Sadie. He’s a runner who has been very keen to do the London marathon and finally this year got to do it after applying and being unsuccessful for the previous 8 years. He’s also a community-minded man who volunteers for the charity Fairshare. We talk about: Why he took a sabbatical not Shared Parental Leave. How he supported his partner's return to work (to a new job). The difference having a supportive partner makes to a woman's return from maternity leave. Coping with hospitalised baby. What a 'supportive' employer looked like for Phil. Volunteering whilst on sabbatical. Feeling strange separating from family to go back to work after intense months together. Finding a new normal as a family. Deciding to have counselling to deal with the shock of an ill child. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, November 08, 2023
74. COMEBACK - Heart FM's Gemma Hill - Mother Pukka covered my maternity - worry about taking leave - staying in touch reduced my anxiety about returning
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Gemma Hill, a Heart FM radio presenter whose maternity leave was covered by non other than the formidable Anna Whitehouse AKA Mother Pukka but even still she says, maternity leave was still pretty terrifying. We talk about: Not being instantly delighted that you're pregnant 3am worries about going on maternity leave Having a bl**dy brilliant maternity leave cover Miscarriage How staying in touch with work can reduce anxiety about going back Gemma started on air age 20 on stations around the Midlands and the North, before hanging up her headphones to pursue what she calls “a real job.” She was a national sales manager for a construction company for 6 years living in London with a stable job, a pension, maternity pay, but binned it off to chase the dream again when she was offered a job in Birmingham on the Free radio Breakfast show (for which she did her demo in Pat Sharp’s towel cupboard.) After a couple of years she made her move to Heart, where she did the breakfast show across the west midlands for 3 years before moving to Drive. That’s where she is today and where she was when she found she was having a (surprise) of a lock down baby. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 25, 2023
73. COMEBACK – Andy Lancaster – CIPD – sick leave for surgery – preparing your team for your absence – re-crafting your role – three elements of phasing back
Ask me a Q My guest today is Andy Lancaster who took three months leave for planned eye and shoulder surgery from a job he loves at CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. We count CIPD among our clients and love working with them. Andy champions and leads the vision for innovative workplace learning and has been at the heart of CIPD's transformation to digital and self-directed learning, with its professional development opportunities now accessed in over 180 countries. He has more than 30 years’ experience in learning and organizational development in a range of sectors and has a research Masters' degree in instructional design. He regularly speaks at conferences, writes, and contributes to research in evidence-based learning. His award-winning book “Driving Performance Through Learning” is published by Kogan Page and he is currently working on a new book on social collaborative learning called: “Organizational Learning Communities” which is due out in 2024. In this episode: How to prepare for leave as a leader of a big team. Why being vulnerable is good for us and the people we lead. Coping with brain fog and pain management. Three aspects of returning to work: the physical, the mental and the social. The unexpected good that can come out of sick leave. Why we shouldn’t rush to pick up exactly the same job we had before we went on leave. The difference between being resilient and being a hero (and why none of us should be heros). MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 11, 2023
72. COMEBACK - Kerry Hickman - Ramboll - Maternity Leave & Redundancy - Feeling "wowed" about where you work - how to land a PT role - career coaching
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Kerry Hickman, a past coachee of ours at Ramboll. Since qualifying as an Accountant at 21, she’s had a very broad commercial career in Accountancy, Audit and Financial Management before landing in roles that manage Sales & Customer Insight. She’s travelled across sectors including consultancy, media, FMCG, currency and public sector, and worked both in the UK and internationally. We talk about: Being made redundant when you've just come back from maternity leave. Working with a career coach - why, what, how? Using LinkedIn to find openings. opportunities, learn and expand your network. How to set about landing a quality PT role. Live Q&A tickets mentioned in the episode for 31/10/23: HOW TO HOLD YOUR BOUNDARIES AND WHAT IS A GOOD ENOUGH PARENT? MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, September 27, 2023
71. COACH - Zara - diplomat making career change - when head + heart don't align - career change tips from careershifters.org
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, today you’re going to eavesdrop on a one-time coaching conversation with "Zara" (not her real name) and get some expert tips on making a career change from Natasha Stanley at Careershifters. I said I'd include a link to the 8 week Career Change Launchpad experience that I talked about with Natasha that 3000 people have been through over the last 10 years. My guest coachee today used to be a diplomat and we’re talking at a point when Zara has applied for roles that she’s overqualified for and although she’s been invited to interview she hasn’t secured the job. After her last interview she was told they were not convinced she would settle and were concerned that she would leave because of the nature of the work and the income. EPISODE MARKERS 2:32 Coaching conversation with Zara. 38:50 How to make a career change with Natasha Stanley, Head Coach & experience designer at Careershifters.org. 51:51 Three summarising tips for making a career change. 54:04 Tips for people who have been on a career break and want to change careers. 56:28 Zara's update one month on from our coaching session. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, September 13, 2023
70.COMEBACK – Cecily Motley – VC-backed entrepreneur maternity leave – regretting not switching off on maternity leave – encouraging men to take SPL
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Cecily Motley, an accomplished entrepreneur with a proven track record of growing companies and brand building in competitive markets. She is the founder of JustParent, a new company working to close the gender pay gap by helping small companies offer more paid parental leave. Previously, Cecily co-founded Motley London, a VC backed, direct-to-consumer brand making world class design affordable. Whilst she was there she was both the pregnant employee and the CEO trying to put good parental leave provision in place. Which led her to her next venture. She lives in London with her husband and two year old son. You’re going to hear about: Putting yourself under stress at work before you give birth Worrying about what people will think of your commitment as you become a parent What it’s like to be a venture capital backed entrepreneur Why it’s good to define your leave period and stick to it Not finding your tribe on maternity leave The positive power of a partner who takes shared parental leave What Cecily hopes her new venture, JustParent, will do for the take-up of Shared Parental Leave among men who work in SMEs And as always the wobbliest moment and peak moment of my guest’s return to work experience. REFERENCES FLAGGED IN THE EPISODE If employers really want to increase the uptake of men taking Shared Parental Leave, here’s how: https://www.talentkeepers.co.uk/employers-fathers-taking-spl/ The single best thing you can do for mothers in your organisation right now: https://www.talentkeepers.co.uk/the-single-best-thing-you-can-do-for-mothers-in-your-organisation-right-now/ What do business leaders think about SPL: https://www.talentkeepers.co.uk/business-leaders-shared-parental-leave/ Expectant fathers at work: https://www.talentkeepers.co.uk/breakingthebias-iwd2022/ MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. <a href='https://vimeo.com/759174786
Wed, August 30, 2023
69. COMEBACK - Helen Rowell - bereavement - signs you're ready to return to work - choosing the attitude that will help you the most
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is an HR leader who recently returned to a new job in a new organisation after being bereaved. Having met at university Helen Rowell and her husband Mike married in 2015 and went on to have a son together, Alfie, who at the time of recording is five. In March 2022 Mike was killed in a skiing accident, leaving Helen to raise Alfie alone. One of the many decisions she needed to make was how to approach her career. Up until that point she had worked full time for a global bank, progressing to Director level at the age of 33. After a period of leave Helen has now returned to work having made some radical changes. You’re going to hear about: Choosing the attitude that’s going to help you the most. Remembering who you were before the bereavement. How employers can support bereaved colleagues including the importance of a bereavement policy. Signs you’re ready to start thinking about returning to work. Deciding to start a new job, in a new organisation. The difference a brilliant line manager makes to your self esteem. The joy and purpose Helen found in setting up a charity, Brightest Star and why she started The Widowhood podcast with Rosie, another young widow. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Mon, August 28, 2023
68. JUST JESSICA - When rejection can be a relief | Failing to give a TEDx Talk | Could I have ADHD?
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds and welcome to an impromptu and somewhat experimental "Just Jessica" episode of COMEBACK COACH , the podcast for people returning to work after a break. I’m Jessica Chivers, a coaching psychologist, author, founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists and developer of the Comeback Community employee experience of which this podcast is a part. I started to write this fortnight’s edition of Caremail – that’s our newsletter for people returning to work and looking for support for that transition and career development beyond their break – about the happiness and opportunity that can be found in rejection and thought: I wonder if I might turn this into an episode of the podcast. So here I am experimenting! If you listen all the way through and like it please let me know and maybe I’ll do some more. If you’re on Instagram an easy way to tell me what you think is via a DM and you’ll find me @comebackcommuk . 3 SELF-REFLECTION QUESTIONS FOR YOU What are you repeatedly asking yourself to do that is draining for you? What piece of self-knowledge are you repeatedly ignoring? Where would your time be better spent? MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, August 16, 2023
67. COMEBACK - Divya Manek - BlackRock - Maternity leave your own way - studying on leave - incessant drive to achieve
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Divya Manek, a senior portfolio manager at BlackRock and a mother of two beautiful girls who I had the complete pleasure of coaching when she returned to work two summers ago. Day to day Divya’s work involves being close to market developments, being close to clients and what they want and making sure client money is managed in the best way possible. She manages 5 people directly and 6 indirectly and she cares hugely about supporting the people around her. And she works extremely hard, you might think too hard when you listen to this. We talk about: Doing maternity leave your own way – and not comparing yourself to what others are doing. Studying for a qualification on maternity leave Having an incessant hunger to achieve What it’s like to ask for and receive family support on maternity leave The mindset to employ when a colleague says something hurtful Divya’s tips for making your comeback. Here's the link to the Live Q&A with Dr Mandy Lehto on taming your overachiever gremlin and spotting the signs of burnout (26/9/23 8pm BST) that I mentioned during this episode. Complimentary tickets available via this link . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, August 02, 2023
66. COMEBACK – Chantelle Angel – Coping with sleep deprivation – using a sleep consultant - deciding to leave your job and retrain
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, Chantelle Angel started her career as a Montessori teacher before going onto work for a children’s disability charity where she became pregnant with her first child. That baby is now 3 ½ and she has another son who is 17 months. Chantelle is now a qualified paediatric sleep consultant and founder of Dreaming Angels , working with a range of parents, mainly in the UK, although she’s reached as far as Singapore and the US. You’re going to hear about: Common baby sleep issues and what you can do about them Chantelle’s transformative experience of being helped by a sleep consultant The science behind why babies who are cuddled off to sleep are more prone to waking and crying later in the night Top tips for settling babies And as always the wobbliest moment and peak moment of my guest’s return to work experience. Here's the link to the Live Q&A with Dr Mandy Lehto on taming your overachiever gremlin and spotting the signs of burnout (26/9/23 8pm BST) that I mentioned during this episode. Complimentary tickets available via this link . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, July 19, 2023
65. COMEBACK – Georgie Siddall – Risk Manager – burnout – choosing redundancy – SEN kids - Co-Chairing an ERG (& having a brilliant manager)
Ask me a Q Hello Bright MInds, in this episode you're going to hear from Georgie Siddall, an operational risk manager who took voluntary redundancy in 2019 when she recognised she was burnt out trying to keep the show on the road at work and at home with three sons under 10. One of her sons is on the autistic spectrum and with no family around to help share the load, life was really challenging for her and her husband. She made her career comeback in July 2021 when she landed a job at Santander, one of three organisations she had on her “want to work for” target list. Alongside her day job she also co-Chairs Santander’s Enable network because she wants to make a difference to colleagues who have different needs. Georgie and I met on LinkedIn on GCSE results day 2022 when I posted about my son, being permanently excluded from school for persistent disruptive behaviour four months ahead of his exams. He has ADHD and ASD and my golly it’s been quite a ride and in the end he smashed his GCSEs which was just brilliant and he’s now got his sights set on a Russell Group University to study economics and finance.…I am so proud! Anyway, back to Georgie. It’s a beautiful story of really coming through after a very difficult time and finding a job you love. You’re going to hear about: the signs of burnout how Georgie came to the decision to take voluntary redundancy how she got herself ready to return to work how to ask for compressed hours and make it work the joy and meaning that can come from doing ‘off the side of your desk’ work – and how to make that work when you’re already working really hard in your day job what makes Santander a great employer If you're reading this before Tuesday 26th September 2023 you're in time to come to our live Q&A with Dr Mandy Lehto on HOW TO SPOT THE SIGNS OF BURNOUT & TAME YOUR OVERACHIEVER GREMLIN . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, July 05, 2023
64. COMEBACK - Jess Heagren - returning too soon - preparing for a good return - finding a family-friendly business culture
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Jess Heagren, founder of That Works For Me – a platform that connects employers with people seeking flexible work - and author of the Careers After Babies report . Jess previously held strategically important roles at Direct Line Insurance, NIG and RBS Insurance. She’s wonderfully honest and generous and I was so happy to have this chat with Jess where among other things we talked about: Coming back to work too soon Preparing for a good return The joy of spreadsheets Career progression and Identifying a family-friendly business culture If you’ve been listening a while you’ll know that this podcast is part of the Comeback Community™ employee experience . This is a solution we deliver for progressive employers to keep their people feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work – be it sick leave, maternity leave, shared parental, adoption, bereavement or sabbatical. If you think the experience of people returning to work after a break could be better where you work, please come over to comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce . There you’ll find a quick and easy way for you to tell us who in your HR team we should be in touch with. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, June 21, 2023
63. COMEBACK - Kathryn & Romana – Dentons LLP - Sponsorship – self doubt - career advice for lawyers who are coming back from a break
Ask me a Q Well hello, it’s good to be back. I wonder how you are? Our season four finale was all about how to make full time work work when you have a young family and today we’re turn our attention to career progression, ambition and in particular the role of sponsorship in elevating women’s careers. Although COMEBACK COACH is a podcast for people returning to work from any type of extended leave, the majority of you wonderful Bright Minds are female - and most of you are coming back from maternity leave. Plenty of you have you sights set on taking your career further when you return from leave which is why I think you’re going to love hearing from Kathryn McCulloch, who’s four months back from her second maternity leave and on Denton’s first Global Women’s Sponsorship Programme. Kathryn is a partner in Dentons’ Dispute Resolution group, whose key areas of practice and expertise include aviation, drone (RPAS) regulation, wills, trusts and estates, and corporate/commercial disputes. With a strategic focus on reaching early resolution to claims, Kathryn looks to achieve timely resolution of disputes through alternative dispute resolution tools, including formal and informal mediation. She’s both a fixed wing and a drone pilot, and a proud mama to two young boys. Also in this episode we’ve got Romana Bruderer-Schwab, who’s Denton’s Global Inclusion, Diversity & Equity manager and supports the ID&E agenda in more than 80 countries. Romana was born in the U.S., is based in Edinburgh and describes herself as a global citizen who has a penchant for learning, amassing new experiences and growing as a person and a professional. She is passionate about tilting the scales of equity and justice in favour of the underrepresented. In this conversation you’re going to hear about: The difference between sponsorship and mentoring. Why sponsorship programmes are needed for women in the law. How self-doubt can affect the most accomplished people when they take a break from work. How a Type A personality prepares for maternity leave. Kathryn’s wobbliest moment when she came back from maternity leave and her advice to people coming back from extended leave. COMEBACK COACH is part of the Comeback Community™ employee experience designed to keep employees feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work – be it sick leave, maternity leave, shared parental, adoption, bereavement or sabbatical. If you think the experience of people returning to work after a break could be better where you work, please come over to comebackcommunity.co.uk/introduce. There you’ll find a quick and easy way for you to tell us who in your HR team we should be in touch with. ***
Wed, April 26, 2023
62. SPECIAL - Making Full Time Work Work (with a young family) - Caterpillar, Dell, NHS, Police, a charity and Financial Services
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, this is a special season finale involving six guests who are making full time work work with young children. I wanted to do this episode after I read a statistic that didn’t shock me as much as sadden me in a report published earlier this year called “CAREERS AFTER BABIES”. 848 women took part in the research which found 85% of women leave the full-time workforce within three years of having children. Upfront disclaimer, all voices in this episode are women who are in a partnership with the father of their children. The guests are drawn from our Instagram community where I put up a poll one Saturday morning in February asking whether they worked FT or PT. I was surprised that the majority in our community answered that they work full time and then thought…haha, let’s do a podcast about working full time and ask these mamas to be part of it. I didn’t hear from anyone who is solo parenting and working full time and so we’ve got the voices who volunteered to chat to me. When I reflect on the DM’s people sent me on instagram and the voices of the women you’re about to hear, there appear to be four key factors that enable women to continue to work FT when they become parents. Mindset and attitude of the individual: wanting to work full time and enjoying your work. Your employer having a positive and supportive attitude towards of compressed hours. Your employer having a positive and supportive attitude to working from home. And number four relates to a woman’s partner: having a partner who is positive about you working FT and is committed to sharing the load equally at home In this episode you’re going to hear those factors brought to life. My guests are: Carina Hoskisson, Engineer at Caterillar. Caoimhe Burins, Audit Manager at Dell. Rebecca Knight, an Executive Assistant in financial services. Kirsty Trude, HR business partner in an international charity. Chrissy, who works in the NHS. "Anna" who works in the police. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/intro
Wed, April 12, 2023
61. COACH - Natalie Trice - PR, Author & University lecturer – wanting more and different in your career – embracing a changing identity – going after “The Dream”
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Mind and welcome to episode 61. Today my guest coachee is Natalie Trice , a PR consultant and trainer and the author of three books. She’s also an ICF-accredited career coach for PR and comms professionals. She’s worked in PR for 25 years and put everyone and everything in the media spotlight. From Epson printers, Discovery Channel documentaries, and Betty Crocker cakes to Animal Planet celebrities, vegan bags and coastal holidays. Today she specialises in PR mentoring and training for brands and experts so they can get themselves in the media, and a lot of this work is based on her second book, PR School. She lives by the sea in Devon (which she’s also written a book about) with her husband, two teenage sons and their two dogs, Coco and Dotty. Our coaching conversation is about Natalie’s changing identity as she moves away from being a “hospital mum” – and you’ll hear what that means – and towards an empty nest and re-finding her focus on a love of learning and teaching. It’s a conversation about knowing what your big career dream is and what it will take for Natalie to get there. As you’re listening, if you’ve got a question or want to tell me about your return to work please find me on Instagram @comebackcommuk because I really do love hearing from you. And did you know, this podcast forms part of our Comeback Community employee experience designed to keep you feeling confident, connected and cared for when you take extended leave from work? If you think your organisation needs to improve the way it cares for people taking any kind of extended leave I’d be really grateful if you’d tell your Head of HR or Chief People Officer about this podcast and send them a link to comebackcommunity.co.uk. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, March 29, 2023
60. COMEBACK - Sophie & Sam – Co-Marketing Director at Lily's Kitchen – Senior Job Share after Maternity
Ask me a Q Hello, Bright Minds and welcome to episode 60 with Sophie Giddings and Sam Crossley who are the job-sharing Marketing Directors at the gorgeous pet care brand Lily’s Kitchen who we’re proud to count among our clients. I coached Sophie when she returned from maternity leave and as you’ll hear, returning to work as part of a job-share wasn’t plain sailing but they have very definitely got there. In this episode we talk about Being the first job-share at Lily’s Kitchen The benefits to businesses and individuals of job-sharing Challenges Sophie & Sam encountered and how they’ve evolved how they work together Educating the business about how to work with them The best way to handover to your job-share partner MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, March 15, 2023
59. COMEBACK - Elena – UX designer - career change after maternity – PND – growing your professional network – job love – supportive work environments
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Elena Gorman, a UX designer at an experience transformation studio in the north of England. She’s a mother two of two, married to Tim and has two naughty cats, Bella and Isaac, and lives in Gateshead. Elena experienced PND after her first child and again after her second. Whilst working as a project manager she stumbled across UX design and fell in love with it and it’s totally changed her career and where she sees it going. She also has PhD in theology and wanted to be a costume designer but never followed it up. In this episode we cover: knowing what your career needs are being prepared to take a risk how to make a career change how to expand your professional network making yourself visible to the people who might have the job you really want planning how you’ll cope with post-natal depression with your second child after having severe PND first time around and how brilliant professor Sue Black is A book Elena read that helped her through her PND is What Am I Thinking: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleiman She also found “Squiggly Careers” very helpful for her career change by Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper – and when we’d finished recording she said she was taking some time this afternoon to go and read “She’s in Ctrl” by Anne-Marie Imafidon. This reminded me of the advice Emmie Faust gave in episode 52 about coming back from burnout and how she was learning to stop doing, doing, doing and to be able to take time to sit and read. I also wanted to mention the work of an organisation I first read about in The Times over a decade ago called careershifters – their website is a go-to destination for people who want to make a career change and a member of our coaching team, Shiobhaun, does some work with them so I can whole-heartedly say what they’re doing is good quality. Finally, Elena talked about the environment Professor Sue Black has created at the University of Durham, and that’s uncommon practice. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Con
Wed, March 01, 2023
58. COMEBACK - Paul & Robin – Times journalist - The Equal Parent book - surrogacy – why both parents must take shared parental leave
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guests today are Times journalist, Paul Morgan-Bentley and his husband Robin. Paul is the author of a brand new book, The Equal Parent, which explores the falsehoods behind parenting roles. Paul and Robin both went through their own work comebacks after taking many months of Shared Parental Leave after having their son Solley through surrogacy. We talk about: their surrogacy journey how they each prepared to return to work how they share the load at home the uncommon practice things they do to that enables them to have gratifying careers and a happy home life. If you like what Paul’s got to say and you’d like to hear more insights from his book, The Equal Parent, I’m doing a live Q&A with him on Tuesday 28th March 8-8.45pm GMT. Complimentary tickets here . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, February 15, 2023
57. COACH - Emily - advertising - career break - leveraging LinkedIn - being brave to ask for meetings - ego-rubbing conversations with past colleagues
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Emily who has over 12 years Account Management experience. She’s worked in two of the big London Advertising agencies and her most recent role was at a CRM agency as an Account Director. She’s married to Tom, they have two daughters, Mollie who is 3 and, Mila who is nearly 1 and after nearly 4 years away from her career she’s fired up to make her comeback. In this conversation I help Emily get into the right mindset for finding the role she wants and how to reach out to the brands she’d like to work for. Did you know, this podcast forms part of our Comeback Community employee experience designed to keep you feeling confident, connected and cared for when you take extended leave from work? If you think your organisation needs to improve the way it cares for people taking any kind of extended leave I’d be really grateful if you’d tell your Head of HR or Chief People Officer about this podcast and send them a link to comebackcommunity.co.uk. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, February 01, 2023
56. COMEBACK - Selina Tyler - interviewing when pregnant – joining a new company after maternity leave - holding a Board position outside your day job
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale at Lombard Odier Investment Management. She’s a past coachee of mine who I wanted to get on the podcast because of her experience of interviewing whilst visibly pregnant and starting a new role in a new organisation after maternity leave. Selina has 18 years of investment management experience and joined the business from Mirabaud Asset Management. She’s also held other senior roles at Hermes Investment Management and Man Group. Her role is focussed on driving the growth of LOIM’s UK wholesale franchise and strengthening the firm’s distribution proposition for intermediaries including private banks, financial advisers and wealth managers. She also oversees a team of four, seeking to promote the firm’s thematic and sustainability propositions to clients across the UK wholesale network. Alongside her investment responsibilities, Selina is also a member of the advisory board for CityHive, an independent organisation which aims to foster diversity, inclusion and sustainability across the investment management landscape. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, January 18, 2023
55. COMEBACK - Rowena Tolley - law firm Partner - sabbatical - maternity - 2 year career break – flex & part time
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, this episode is a conversation I’ve been looking forward to having ever since one of the coaches in my team at The Talent Keeper Specialists - the wonderful Shiobhaun - coached her and told me about what a star she is. Rowena Tolley is a trademark partner at intellectual property firm Kilburn & Strode, based in the London team. They work with clients of all sizes across all industries, protecting their brands and inventions. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, January 03, 2023
54. COACH - COMING BACK FROM THE HOLIDAYS - how to get yourself back in work mode
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, welcome to 2023. If you're feeling a bit flat and need help cranking up again professionally, this episode is for you. Please share generously with your team mates. In this very short episode I share five tips for getting your head back into work as easily, smoothly and enjoyably as possible. Here they are in a nutshell: 1. Do something difficult. 2. Do something easy. 3. Walk - article on divergent thinking and walking here . 4. Half a half day away day with yourself. 5. Connect with someone you admire or envy. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, December 28, 2022
53. COACH - Rachel – sick leave from burnout - when your heart isn’t in your work – exploring career change
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guest coachee today is Rachel, a senior marketing and insight professional and mum of two boys who recently returned to work after an extended period of sick leave after suffering from burnout. . Four key takeouts from this episode: . Assume people want to help you and that you deserve to be helped. Share what your ‘dream’ help would be and let them negotiate downwards if needs be! (For Rachel this was having one set of grandparents have the boys after lunch every Saturday until Sunday morning for 6 months). Career change is possible and that it takes time – how much time depends on how much you need your current salary. Setting aside time for exploration of possible different career options is vital – this is the foundation for making a plan for HOW you’re going to make the shift. Having an end date for the exploration phases focuses the mind – for Rachel this is five months (at which point she’ll turn 38). MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, December 14, 2022
52. COMEBACK - Emmie Faust - investor - burnout - breakdown - long Covid - mother of 4
Ask me a Q Emmie Faust is a past coachee, exited Founder, an Angel Investor, mother of four and passionate about supporting women. She recently launched Female Founders Rise to champion female founders and has aspirations to launch a micro-fund to invest in impact-led female-founded businesses. We’re talking about Emmie’s experience of coming back from burnout and long covid and it’s a wonderfully candid conversation. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, November 30, 2022
51. COMEBACK - Emma & Mark - maternity & shared parental leave - male part time primary teacher - sharing load at home
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, my guests this time are Emma & Mark James. Emma is a buyer at TJX Europe and Mark is a primary school teacher. They have two children and Emma returned to work from maternity leave a few months before we had this conversation. Mark has just changed his work pattern to do three days a week and Emma works full time. We talk about sharing the load at home and the great things that can happen when daddy works part-time. I hope you enjoy(ed) it. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, November 09, 2022
50. LIVE CAREER Q&A – MANTRAS FOR HAPPINESS & SUCCESS AT WORK & HOME
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about MANTRAS FOR HAPPINESS & SUCCESS. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, November 09, 2022
49. LIVE CAREER Q&A – BUILDING TRUST & HOW NOT TO BE A SCARY WOMAN – How do you quickly and effectively build trust in a team?
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about BUILDING TRUST. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, November 02, 2022
48. LIVE CAREER Q&A - FAILURE – How do you come back from it?
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about FAILURE. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, November 02, 2022
47. LIVE CAREER Q&A - FLEXIBILITY - 6 women with big jobs talk
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about FLEXIBILITY. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 26, 2022
45. LIVE CAREER Q&A – AMBITION – Does ambition change after returning to work? How does ambition fit with the rest of your life?
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about AMBITION. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, October 26, 2022
46. LIVE CAREER Q&A – GUILT – How do you cope with it? Answers from 6 women in big jobs with children
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about GUILT. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 19, 2022
44. LIVE CAREER Q&A - SPEAKING UP – How do I have a voice in the room? How to get myself listened to?
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about SPEAKING UP. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier Here's the Carla Miller event Jessica mentioned on 15/11/22 12 noon GMT. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Bonus · Wed, October 19, 2022
43. LIVE CAREER Q&A – SUCCESS - What’s your definition of success? Do you think of yourself as successful?
Ask me a Q Jessica talks to six brilliant women in big jobs talk about SUCCESS. This is a snippet from career panel Q&A we hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists' 10th birthday celebration (TTKS is the business behind the Comeback Community employee experience of which COMEBACK COACH is a part). The six women: Daisy Allington - Chief Operating Officer, Cognitant Justine Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, BlackRock (EMEA) Debbie Dalzell, Global HR Director, GAM Investments Dr Melinda Rees, Chief Commercial Officer, Psyomics Jane Stiller, Chief Marketing Officer, ITV Selina Tyler, Head of UK Wholesale, Lombard Odier MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, October 05, 2022
42. Hello from Jessica (a personal message explaining the gap between season 3 and 4)
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds, I wanted to pop up and say hello and share a little bit about the tricky time I've had this year which has delayed season 4. That's what you'll hear in this 10 minute 'episode'. If you'd like to be in touch about anything I mention: e-mail jc@talentkeepers.co.uk Instagram: @comebackcommuk Whilst season 4 is in the making I'm going to bring you 8 snippets from a brilliant career Q&A panel I hosted as part of The Talent Keeper Specialists 10th birthday gathering in London on 29.9.22. The Talent Keeper Specialists is the business behind the Comeback Community™ employee experience , of which this podcast is a part. Much love and best wishes, Jessica MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, August 31, 2022
41. COMEBACK - Pippa - Asset Management - What is comeback coaching? - How to ask your employer to sponsor coaching
Ask me a Q Hello Bright Minds and welcome to episode 41, with my guest Pippa Rudling, one of our very recent coachees. Pippa works for an institutional investment platform, in a sales & client relationship role, working with investment consultants and pension scheme trustees. She has two daughters – Poppy 4 and Jasmine 1 and I worked with Pippa when she was coming back from her second maternity leave. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to
Wed, August 17, 2022
40. COACH - 7 Qs for a smooth and successful return to work from maternity leave & other career breaks
Ask me a Q Hello, it’s me, Jessica Chivers for a different kind of episode to usual. It’s just me today – no guests - and in this ‘COACH’ episode I’m exploring seven Qs to ask yourself before you return to work. I’ve chosen these because over the last 18 years of executive coaching with people returning to work I’ve found these are the ones that really help set you up for success. The seven Qs that I unpack one by one: 1. Why am I returning to work? 2. What will a successful return look, smell, sound and taste like? 3. What’s the best that could happen? 4. How are we going to share the load at home? 5. What expectations do people have of me? 6. What resources and support do I need? 7. What’s gone well? MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, August 03, 2022
39. COMEBACK - Verena Hefti MBE - advice for ambitious returning parents - how to spot a great employer - taking leave as a CEO
Ask me a Q My guest today is Verena Hefti MBE, the founder and CEO of the social enterprise, Leaders Plus. She’s also the host of the Big Careers Small Children podcast on which I’ve had the pleasure of being a guest talking about how to progress your career when you work part time. Verena has three children and we’re talking when Verena is 6 months back from returning from her third maternity leave. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us <a h
Wed, July 20, 2022
38. COACH - Jo - L&D - moving sector after maternity - new role – first 100 days – new ID - taking time to reflect
Ask me a Q Hello I’m Jessica and my guest coachee today is Jo, a Learning & Development Professional, who’s returning from maternity and redundancy to a new organisation in a brand new sector. She’s had a 13 year career in L&D and is taking up the role of Head of Performance and Capability three days a week – something she negotiated after applying for what was advertised as a full time role. She’s not new to making sector moves having worked in Healthcare, Education, Pharmaceuticals and now recruitment. She lives in Hertfordshire in the UK with her husband and son Albie. If you would like a free coaching session with me for season four of the podcast click here . KEY TAKE AWAYS Take the time to be inducted, to get to know the business and what stakeholders need from you – and take time to reflect on what’s going well, what’s energising you and where you might need some more support. Put to one side any self-inflicted pressure to deliver in your first 100 days – this time is for laying the foundations. Sector moves are entirely possible, so don’t let anyone pigeon-hole you. Jo has worked in healthcare, education, pharmaceuticals and is now moving into recruitment. Your identity is a composite of the roles we play and what we value. When you start a new role you’re excited about and want to excel in, lower your expectations to be the best friend, wife, parent etc because this is the time you’re putting the professional part of you front and centre. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progressi
Wed, July 06, 2022
37. COMEBACK - Carla - solo parenting – increasing your influence and impact – super powers
Ask me a Q My guest today is Carla Miller, host of the 'Influence & Impact for female leaders' podcast which sits in the top 20 management podcasts in the UK Apple charts most weeks. Her book Closing the Influence Gap: A practical guide for women leaders who want to be heard is available for pre-order now. We talk about: Choosing to be a solo parent Challenges associated with returning to work as a solo parent Increasing your impact when returning from maternity and other long breaks As mentioned in the episode: FREE TICKETS TO INCREASING YOUR INFLUENCE & IMPACT AT WORK with me and Carla on Tuesday 15th November at 12 noon. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product
Wed, June 22, 2022
36. COMEBACK - Chris – EY – Father of four – SPL – sharing mental load – working 80%
Ask me a Q My guest today is Chris Ashton-Holt, a Director in EY’s Consulting business, leading the Project Development offering within their Sustainable Infrastructure team. He has worked there for nearly 12 years after joining straight from university, and within EY he focuses on setting large infrastructure projects up for success, with a particular focus on low carbon electricity generation including nuclear power. Chris has just returned from 4 months of shared parental leave following the birth of his fourth child and first daughter, Elodie. Chris has previously taken time off after the birth of his 3 boys Lucas (now 12), Leon (6) and Elias (4). We talk about: - Genuinely sharing the mental load with his wife - The experience of taking SPL - Why it's worth taking SPL - Working PT in a big job - Being a father to four children HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, e
Wed, June 08, 2022
35. COMEBACK - Emily - Google - PND and anxiety – returning to a bigger job
Ask me a Q My guest today is Emily Wheen, a senior Recruiting Lead at Google, managing a team that recruits the best technical, sales, marketing and partnerships talent for Google Cloud in APAC. She’s originally from the UK and has spent the last 10 years living and working in Asia with her husband. She’s currently based in Singapore, where they’ve spent the last 5 years, and prior to that lived in Tokyo. Emily had her first baby in 2020, was promoted on maternity leave, and returned to work in 2021 post 6.5 months of leave. Despite COVID, and not being able to see family and friends in the UK for 2+ years, she says she had a very positive experience of becoming a mother. However, when it came to returning to work she was diagnosed with post-natal depression and anxiety which led to Emily taking an extra 2.5 months of leave and a serious knock to her confidence. She returned to work for the second time in October 2021 and says she finally feels like herself again. ** LINK TO FREE EVENT FLAGGED IN THE EPISODE** Tuesday 28th June 8-8.45pm BST with Lucy Dodd and Amanda Newman " How to go gently and make a sustainable return to work after sick leave " HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&link_code=as3&camp=2506&
Wed, May 25, 2022
34. COMEBACK - Bea - sick leave – car crash in Silicon Valley - two attempts at returning – comeback coaching
Ask me a Q My guest today is Beatrice Gloor, whose life changed dramatically when she was en route to a client meeting in Silicon Valley. Beatrice has 20 years’ experience as a Senior Relationship Manager and leader in highly demanding, volatile, fast-paced global corporates. In 2015 Beatrice was in a car accident which caused an aneurysm, six mini strokes, severe concussion, internal injuries, loss of short term memory and various cognitive impairments. She was out of the business for about a year and despite all predictions she made a full recovery which was twice as fast as those with similar injuries. She's a true go-getter who was born and raised in Switzerland and has lived around the world. ** LINK TO FREE EVENT FLAGGED IN THE EPISODE** Tuesday 28th June 8-8.45pm BST with Lucy Dodd and Amanda Newman " How to go gently and make a sustainable return to work after sick leave " HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get <a href='https://www.subscribe
Wed, May 11, 2022
33. COACH - Christina - Preparing for leave as a leader – asking peers for help – nourishing your network before maternity leave
Ask me a Q Hello I’m Jessica and my guest today has been in the civil service for 12 years since she gained a Masters degree in Economics. She’s expecting her third child and has two young children already – a 6 and a 4 year old – and without any family nearby it makes it very hard to carve time out for themselves, although she says she really got into gardening over the last 3 years and turned into a plant enthusiast! Our conversation is about preparing for leave as a leader and we’re talking when Christina is 6 weeks away from going on maternity leave. As you’ll hear, Christina is very energised and wants to put herself in the best possible position for her return by having useful conversations and growing her network before she goes. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&link_code=a
Wed, April 27, 2022
32. COMEBACK - Sally Williams - ITN journalist – Coming back from a career break - doing more of what you love – playing to your strengths
Ask me a Q Hello and welcome to the first episode of season three of Comeback Coach, the podcast for people returning to work after a break. Sally Williams is a journalist at ITN who presents the weather and reports for ITV London News. She returned to work after her third child and having had a career break in the US when her husband’s work for ITN took them there. She got a call from her boss when her daughter was 4 ½ months old asking if she’d consider coming back freelance one day a week. She did and she’s now a permanent member of the team doing work she loves. I had a big smile on my face all the way through my chat with Sally – she really is a born storyteller and entertainer and I think you’re going to love it. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&link_code=as3&camp=2506&c
Wed, March 16, 2022
31. COMEBACK – Abby – Lawyer – relationship building after leave - business development – internal networking
Ask me a Q Hello and welcome to the last episode of season two of Comeback Coach., the podcast for people returning to work after a break. It felt fitting for this season finale to talk to someone from Rayden Solicitors , the award-winning Tier 1 family law firm that’s sponsored the podcast from the beginning. And my guest is Abby Westell, Legal Director at Rayden’s which involves lots of client contact, running the office, managing the team, supervising junior lawyers and business development. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. <a href='https://vimeo.com/759
Wed, March 02, 2022
30. COACH - Danielle – confidence – can I still ask for help when I’m a Partner?
Ask me a Q My guest today is Danielle, the Head of Master Planning and Landscape at a multi-disciplinary property firm. She started a phased return to work when her baby was 8 months old and she’s now been back four months. We’re talking about the path to partner and the support she’d like as she makes that transition. As you’re listening, if you’ve got a question or want to tell me about your return to work please find me on Instagram @comebackcommuk because I really do love hearing from you. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. <a href='https://vime
Wed, February 16, 2022
29. COMEBACK - Cheney - founder – baby with a disability – short maternity leave – SPL – mental health
Ask me a Q My guest today is Cheney Hamilton, founder of Find Your Flex, the flexible job site that’s on a mission to create a better work culture for future generations. It was developed off the back of her 16 years employment in recruitment advertising, which came to an end after she had her second daughter. She’s married to Liam and they have three children who are 6, 4 and 2. Their eldest child, Bea, was born with hip dysplasia and it was an incredibly difficult time for both Cheney and Liam. Liam was the first man in his organisation to take Shared Parental Leave, and that kicked in when Bea was five months old and Cheney returned to work full time. Childcare outside the family wasn’t an option at the time because of Bea’s condition and Liam found being home alone with Bea a challenging time. Yet despite all their trials, they’ve triumphed. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday
Wed, February 02, 2022
28. COACH - Deborah - Lawyer - finding time for self - reasons to go to the office - being productive
Ask me a Q My guest today is Deborah, a lawyer who specialises in inheritance and trust disputes. We’re talking when Deborah has been back at work from maternity leave a few months and she’s feeling that the world of work is very different to how it was before she went on leave. She wants to get a sense of control and find time for herself. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. EPISODE CONTENT: 6:17 Building a routine - and flexing routines but still achieving what’s important. 8:08 - Ideal day is IN THE OFFICE not WFH 18:55 - Why you should mark exercise/hobbies/alone time in your work diary. 20:26 - Ultradian rhythm and why you shouldn’t just ‘power on through’ 25:37 - The power of having one long day in the office a week 29:26 - What did Debbie take away from the coaching session? 30:55 - Starting new hobbies (that fits better with life right now: Debbie moves from ceramics to making YouTube films) 32:46 - The psychological state of ‘flow’ and the benefits 34:05 - Why everyone needs a creative hobby (according to Debbie) 34:48 - do housework when your children are awake and do things for yourself whe
Wed, January 19, 2022
27. COMEBACK - Joeli Brearley - Pregnant Then Screwed - Maternity Discrimination
Ask me a Q 54,000 women a year are forced out of their jobs due to pregnancy or for taking maternity leave and 77% have encountered some form of discrimination in the workplace. Those stats are lifted from the back of the brilliant book “Pregnant Then Screwed: The Truth about the Motherhood Penalty and how to fix it” by my guest Joeli Brearley . It’s not right, it’s not OK and in many ways I hope this episode doesn’t resonate with you. It was a joy to chat to Joeli because she’s a woman taking action on something important and I’ve long admired her. I hope you enjoy it and if you want to tell me about how it’s helped or inspired you please come and chat to me on Instagram or twitter using the handle @comebackcommUK. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get <a
Wed, January 05, 2022
26. COACH - Katy - rebuilding confidence - getting a sense of control - external validation – considering taking time out
Ask me a Q My guest today is Katy, a marketing professional who’s been back at work from her second parental leave for 18 months. She returned during the pandemic to a wholesale restructuring of the marketing team which led to her heading for redundancy. However, two weeks before she was due to leave, role that was perfect for her came up and so she stayed – but it’s only for a year. Our conversation took place when Katy had been in this new role six months and she’s feeling uncertain, a little insecure and wanting to fortify her confidence. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848503199?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwbeyoubutbe-21&link_cod
Wed, December 22, 2021
25. COMEBACK – Claire – IVF – miscarriage – twins - adding a career break to maternity leave – kind colleagues – job love
Ask me a Q My guest today is Claire Garwood, a civil servant at the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency. She went through four rounds of IVF and two miscarriages before conceiving her now three year old twins. She went through so much to get where she is today and I think you’re going to find this encouraging and heart warming especially if you’re going through IVF or you’ve experienced miscarriage. NHS information about IVF: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ivf/ NHS information on miscarriage: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/miscarriage/ Tommy’s charity: https://www.tommys.org/ HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get <
Wed, December 08, 2021
24. COACH - Alex - exploring a career change – not returning to employment – starting a social enterprise
Ask me a Q Alex is looking to re-engage with the working world after a four year career break raising two children. We’re talking when Alex is four months away from her son starting nursery and as you’ll hear, she doesn’t have a career path to pick up on and she’s questioning whether now is the time to turn her hobby into a business rather than try to return to employment. . . THINGS REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE Olive & Blossom – team building company based around flower arranging. Conversation of Inspiration podcast – episode with Anna Lewis (illustrator) Playing Big by Tara Mohr . . HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . . . If you're curious, here's a POST COACHING SESSION UPDATE FROM ALEX: December 2021: "I'm currently revising for the RHS exams in February. I'v
Wed, November 24, 2021
23. COMEBACK - Rachael - Knowing your why - interviewing 8 weeks post partum – starting a new role – phased returns – teamwork at home
Ask me a Q Rachael is a seasoned HR professional who started her career in in-house recruitment and spent much of her 15 year HR career partnering businesses and connecting teams including for a luxury floral company. She finished her corporate HR days in a cyber security growth company as an HR Business Partner covering EMEA and beyond and this is where we pick up the return to work story. . . HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work <e
Wed, November 10, 2021
22. COACH - Katie - Starting a new role - building rapport remotely - making an impact - getting feedback without looking needy
Ask me a Q Katie is an HR professional with over a decade of experience in financial services who’s making a move into a different role of which she has no experience. She’s returning to work after her second maternity leave into a new role that’s never been done before – no ‘playbook’ and no one to have a handover with. Our conversation takes place two weeks before her start date. I mentioned an article about how to raise your visibility when you work remotely . . . THINGS REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE Olive & Blossom – team building company based around flower arranging. Conversation of Inspiration podcast – episode with Anna Lewis (illustrator) Playing Big by Tara Mohr . . HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR
Wed, October 27, 2021
21. COMEBACK - Amanda - Confidence - big job & travel - when your dream job comes up on maternity leave - think twice before quitting
Ask me a Q Amanda Newman is a senior manager at Accenture and mother of four. She’s also the woman behind The Career Mum community, which has a global membership of over 5000 people. Amanda had all of her children whilst she was at Shell, where she held various project manager roles before doing a brief stint at Microsoft and then moving to Accenture. Her youngest are five year old twins and in this episode we’re talking confidence. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make
Wed, October 13, 2021
20. COACH - Sara - career crossroads - passion v salary - role-sharing - should I have a career change?
Ask me a Q Sara is an Associate Director at a recruitment firm where she manages a team of Consultants and is the lead personal contact on over 40 client accounts. When she returned to work after having her first baby she discovered that the career she had found so energising and rewarding, was no longer a good fit and that her professional achievements no longer felt like success. Sara’s currently on maternity leave after having had her second child and a career change into a field that better suits her needs is on her mind. . . HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? . . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & progression: www.comebackcommunity.co.uk/careerfuel Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . . . RESOURCES JESSICA SUGGESTED TO SARA Job Sharing https://www.thejobsharepair.com/ - and do see Hannah & Rachel on Instagram for lots of inspiring case studies. https://www.roleshare.com/ - platform for finding a job share partner Values & Core Needs https://www.truity.com/test/holland-code-career-test</a
Wed, September 29, 2021
19. COMEBACK - The Job Share Pair - What, Why & How of Job Sharing – Finding a Partner - Replacing part of the Pair - Benefits to Employers
Ask me a Q Rachel and Hannah AKA "The Job Share Pair" worked their way up through the corporate ranks to HR Director level. They were both – and still are – really committed, motivated, determined women, passionate about work and not wanting to take a step back. Their first babies were born six days apart and they began job sharing when they returned from maternity leave and really found their groove and made it work brilliantly well. In 2020 they set up their Instagram account The Job Share Pair to loudly and proudly spread the word about job-sharing as being an excellent way to retain female leaders. Originally a hobby, this passion project has become a business and they’ve left their corporate lives behind. IN THIS EPISODE: Maternity leave How they came to be sharing a role What a job share is and is not The benefits of job-sharing for the team, the organisation and the job sharers When one of the pair goes on maternity leave How to find a job share partner How to approach a line manager about the idea of a job share HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more understanding? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & progression: www.comebackcommunity.co.uk/careerfuel Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please <a href='https://comebackcommunity.co.uk/comebac
Wed, September 15, 2021
18. COACH - Emily - Law firm Partner – self doubt - returning remotely - shaky confidence - sounding boards
Ask me a Q Emily is a partner in a small law firm who’s returned to work after her second maternity leave. She’s been back six months and her confidence has taken a significant knock not least due to returning remotely. She’s really missed the ‘sounding board’ type conversations she enjoyed with colleagues when she returned to work the first time. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & progression: www.comebackcommunity.co.uk/careerfuel Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coache
Wed, September 01, 2021
17. COMEBACK - Ria - Mindful return – self-compassion - smoothly gliding back into work – managing your energy
Ask me a Q Ria Ingleby made a mindful return to work after cancer treatment to her job at Headspace. We discuss: Characteristics of a mindful return 'Gliding in' not 'hitting the ground running' Self-compassion Being kind and gentle The power of journaling or 'free writing' For the resources and links mentioned in the episode visit: HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & Progression: Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work</em
Tue, July 27, 2021
16. COACH - Julia - redundancy - emotional rollercoaster - self-employment - business development
Ask me a Q The coaching conversation is with Julia, a landscape architect who was furloughed after maternity leave with her second child and then made redundant. We’re talking just a few weeks into Julia setting up her own practice when she says she’s riding an emotional rollercoaster and struggling with the idea of business development. We talk about: structuring her time focusing on one thing at once finding different ways to build connections with potential clients other than networking events. HOW WAS YOUR RETURN TO WORK? Could your return to work have been smoother? Could your line manager have been more empathetic? We’re on a mission to keep everyone everywhere feeling confident, connected and cared for when they take extended leave from work. Our Comeback Community™ employee experience is designed to do just that. We work with employers such as ITV, BlackRock and Lily’s Kitchen and we’d love you to tell your HR Team about us. Share these two short films (less than 2 minutes) with your HR Team today: Comeback Community employee experience – WHAT is it? Comeback Community employee experience – WHY do you need it? BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Instagram: @comebackcommuk – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK FREE Career Fuel guide for Professional Impact & progression . Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read <a href='https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/18485031
Tue, July 13, 2021
15. COMEBACK - Torey - HR manager - IVF - being open about imposter feelings at work - rebuilding confidence
Ask me a Q Torey’s tale of IVF and moving jobs to lessen her stress and help their chances of success might be familiar to you. I talked to Torey at the start of her fourth week back after maternity leave to her role as a senior people engagement consultant at Orbit, a not-for-profit housebuilder. Torey talks about how she started to rebuild her confidence before she started back at work and how she’s keeping imposter feelings at bay. A coach has been key to changing the unrealistic expectations she has of herself. She constantly reminds herself to be patient; that it’s OK to ask lots of questions and that it will take time to get up to speed again. Torey is a Senior people engagement consultant at Orbit, a not-for-profit housebuilder. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplac
Tue, June 29, 2021
14. COACH – Debora, interior architect – losing purpose - feeling disconnected from work you loved - craving more time with your child
Ask me a Q You’re feeling disconnected from the job you once loved then you’re made redundant after two months being back at work after maternity leave. In this COACH episode coaching psychologist Jessica Chivers works with Debora, an interior architect, who feels she’s lost her sense of purpose and says “I’ve completely changed my worldview since having my daughter.” She craves flexibility to spend more time with her child and wants to continue to use her problem-solving skills and creativity to help others. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, June 15, 2021
13. COMEBACK – Liz – Rebuilding credibility - getting your head back into gear - backing yourself after maternity leave
Ask me a Q My guest today is Liz Twiney who works for an asset management firm in London. We’re talking when Liz is 3 months back from her first maternity leave and we cover rebuilding credibility, what to do when you can’t have traditional KIT days, guilt because you love your job and how to invite people for a catch up when you’re working remotely. Five takeaways from the conversation with Liz: When there’s a choice to back yourself or not, let’s choose to back ourselves. Sometimes it’s in your own head that colleagues will think you won’t want to keep progressing when you’ve had a baby. Line managers – ask your returning colleague for input and their opinion because it really stokes feelings of credibility. Don’t compare yourself to others “This is my situation and this is what makes me tick.” Put things in perspective. Try to find the fun in everything, have a hobby that’s a release from the daily grind and back yourself. Liz’s top tip (3 in 1!) BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us <a h
Tue, June 01, 2021
12. COACH - Rosie - how to progress your career when coping with increased caring responsibilities
Ask me a Q Stressed, tired and determined to meet the work demands and expectations she’s set herself, Rosie is an academic with two young children and additional caring responsibilities She works 4 days a week for a university, where she's been for 9 years. The pandemic has significantly increased her caring responsibilities due to supporting family members and she’s struggled at times with the stress of trying to deliver professionally whilst looking after her family’s and her own wellbeing. In this COACH episode we explore how Rosie can get through the acute period of stress she’s in at the moment and how she can help herself longer term. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, May 18, 2021
11. COMEBACK - Wendy - Coping with anxiety - crippling guilt - feeling out of control - seeking therapy and coping lessons
Ask me a Q WARNING: This episode includes very naughty words. Wendy found herself feeling out of control, crying at work and sitting in a mental health seminar at work thinking “I’m not OK.” Wendy Lancaster is a landscape planner and mother of two who experienced crippling levels of anxiety when she returned to work after her second maternity leave. Wendy works with developers and local authorities to protect the character of landscapes, built environments and important views. She’s often the lone woman in meetings with master planners, transport consultants, drainage engineers and ecologists. She has two children age 6 and 2 and says she’s married to a wonderful man who’s massively supportive of her career who has stepped back from his own to allow Wendy to focus on hers. It’s a really honest conversation about how out of control she felt when she first went back to work and why she decided to see a therapist. I hope it’s useful. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR tea
Mon, May 03, 2021
10. SPECIAL - Maternal Mental Health - Better Births - PND - Psychosis - Doulas - PaNDAS Foundation
Ask me a Q For all the references and resources Eve, Anna & Mia mention see the Maternal Mental Health page on our website. SPECIAL EPISODE for Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 exploring: Pre-natal depression. What England’s new maternal mental health hubs should look like. Doulas – who are they, why use one and how to choose her? Post-partum psychosis – what is it? Psychosis, risk factors and bi-polar disorder. How other cultures look after new mothers. GUESTS: Anna Ceesay : Journalist and founder of Motherdom.co.uk , the first UK online media platform to address issues of maternal mental health. Anna experienced pre-natal depression at eight months pregnant. Mia Scotland : Perinatal clinical psychologist, doula, author of Birth Shock & Why Post Natal Depression Matters. Evie Canavan : Coordinator of UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week for Perinatal Mental Health Partnership and postpartum psychosis survivor. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, April 20, 2021
9. COACH - Fiona - ambitious teacher - making a career dream happen – getting out of your own way
Ask me a Q Fiona is an ambitious teacher on maternity leave yearning to give and do more professionally but who also wants to dedicate a large proportion of time to her children. In this COACH episode we explore what Fiona really wants, ways she could achieve it, constraints and come up with a way of looking at her situation which changes everything. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, April 06, 2021
8. COMEBACK - Valeria, management consultant - best things to focus on at work in the early weeks after your return
Ask me a Q When your confidence is growing and you feel like you’re on an upward trajectory and then, among glowing feedback, your manager tells you he thinks you’re still a bit lost. How do you handle that? In this episode we hear from Valeria, an associate director at one of the world’s best known management consultancies, who’s four months back from maternity leave. We talk about how to spend the early weeks back from leave: The importance of taking the time to understand what’s changed where you work Stakeholder mapping How to rebuild relationships The power of seeing yourself as a fresh pair of eyes How to handle the wobbles induced by a manager telling you he thinks you’re still a bit lost. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee expe
Tue, March 23, 2021
7. COACH - Laura - innovation strategist - re-finding purpose and focus after furlough and redundancy.
Ask me a Q You’ve been furloughed for five months then made redundant from a job you love. In this COACH episode coaching psychologist Jessica Chivers works with Laura Gelder-Robertson, an incredibly smart innovation strategist who’s now looking to rekindle her own innovation consultancy in the wake of unemployment. Laura’s a mother of two young children and married to a man with a new big job of his own. We’re talking at a point when Laura feels there’s a lot to do and that she hasn’t quite got the focus she’d like. Are you away from work? There are free goodies to support your return over on comebackcommunity.co.uk where you’ll also find a blog post with Laura’s stunning visuals about her goals and how she’s going to get there plus an update on what Laura's done since the coaching conversation. This episode is sponsored by Rayden Solicitors , an award-winning, Times Top 200 family law firm. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast. Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us
Tue, March 09, 2021
6. COMEBACK - Claire - Finding your purpose, how to pitch for compressed hours and make it work
Ask me a Q Claire Thomas, one very customer-focussed senior director of sales at the technology company, Hitachi Vantara. She was professional services sales woman of the year 2018 - a wonderful accolade to take with her as she went on maternity leave. Read her LinkedIn article about returning to work. Claire talked so thoughtfully about purpose and values. As a coaching psychologist I know how being clear on your values can help guide career decision-making and bring fulfilment at work and at home. If you’re curious about your values and want to get clearer on your purpose I can recommend the free values in action survey that was created by the grandfather of positive psychology, Professor Martin Seligman. BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, February 23, 2021
5. COACH – Emma, lawyer - how to progress your career, raise your visibility at work and still have time for family
Ask me a Q Emma is a solicitor in a top 20 law firm who’s keen to progress her career after maternity leave, raise her visibility and still have time for her two young boys and husband. In this COACH episode Emma and Jessica explore tactics for making those things happen. Spoiler: they come up with a doable plan that doesn’t involve magic-ing up 48 hours in a day. Are you on extended leave from work? Preparing for leave? Or recently returned? Find free goodies to support your return over on www.comebackcommunity.co.uk . What did you think of the episode? Got a question about returning to work? Chat to Jessica on Twitter @ComebackCommUK . Also find us on Instagram @ComebackCommUK . If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website. Season 1 sponsor is Rayden Solicitors MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Tue, February 09, 2021
4. COMEBACK – Rachel – How to get through the early months back at work – playbook for success - what to stop and start
Ask me a Q The conversation is with Rachel Jackson, previously of HP and Cisco where she worked in technology sales for 20 years and also sat as Vice Chair on the Inclusion Board and led the UK Back to Business employee resource group. “Build your support squad before you go back to work; ask for help before you’re at breaking point and establish a really good self care routine,” are just three of the cracking pieces of advice Rachel says she’d put in her playbook for how to navigate the early months returning to work from extended leave. Rachel had two maternity leaves during her time at Cisco, returning after her second child in 2019. She recently took the decision to step out of her career to run with her deep interest in the world of inclusion. She now runs her own business, A Different Me, which aims to positively impact the lives of working mothers in corporate organisations. As you’ll hear Rachel can remember her time returning to work as if it were yesterday and she’s got a series of cracking tips for how to handle the early months back at work. RESOURCES FLAGGED IN EPISODE: A Different Me , Rachel Jackson’s business Rachel on Insta Rayden Solicitors - season 1 sponsor - Times 200 family law firm How to Own the Room podcast with Viv Groskop BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am)</l
Tue, January 26, 2021
3. COACH – Chloe, PR professional – how to get more job love, more recognition and not feel icky about self-promotion
Ask me a Q Chloe is a PR professional who feels in limbo having come back from one maternity leave and knowing she’s going to be going away again in six month’s time. She’s come back to work that leaves her feeling unmotivated and out of control. Our conversation focusses on what Chloe wants from the next six months and how to make it happen. We talk about three key themes: 1. Recognition 2. Promotion 3. Progression Our season 1 sponsor is Rayden Solicitors . BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions, let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, January 13, 2021
2. COMEBACK - Caroline - how imposter feelings can make you stronger - lawyer - mum of 4
Ask me a Q “Imposter feelings can be where your strengths lie,” says Caroline Flanagan. Caroline talks about coping with constant low-level anxiety and how she handled imposter feelings when she returned to work after her first maternity leave to a U.S. law firm - where she was the only female lawyer with a baby. RESOURCES FLAGGED IN EPISODE: Baby Proof Your Career by Caroline Flanagan Rayden Solicitors - season 1 sponsor - Times 200 family law firm BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions , let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
Wed, January 13, 2021
1. COACH – Nicola - losing job love - maternity leave - D&I - struggling to find your place
Ask me a Q Nicola returned from maternity leave to a role that she’d trained a long time to do but that her heart was no longer in. She talks about how she’s struggling in a male dominated team and experiences casual sexism on a day to day basis. Her mind has been ignited by the world of diversity and inclusion and she’s keen to explore other opportunities within her blue-chip firm. However, she’s been asked to ‘respect the hierarchy’ and not make attempts to reach more senior figures outside of her team to get her voice heard. Three resources Jessica flagged in this episode: Women’s Progression in the Workplac e King’s College London & GEO research Rocking the Boat by Debra E Myerson Mentor Mums BE IN TOUCH & FREE GOODIES TO SUPPORT YOU: Twitter: @ ComebackCommUK – talk to me, send me your questions , let me know about your return to work experience and what you think of the podcast Instagram: @comebackcommuk www.comebackcommunity.co.uk Comeback Conversations - FREE, monthly, online problem-solving sessions with Jessica and special guest. Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers If you’d like to have a coaching conversation with Jessica for a future episode of Comeback Coach please contact us via the website . MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team -
Tue, December 29, 2020
0. Welcome to Comeback Coach - Introducing 'Comeback' and 'Coach' episodes
Ask me a Q Comeback Coach is the wobbly-bottomed podcast about kickass comebacks for people riding the return to work rollercoaster. If you're on maternity leave - or away from work on for another reason - and want to come back feeling prepared, positive and filled with self-belief, this podcast is for you. I’m a coaching psychologist, author, founder of The Talent Keeper Specialists and most recently the developer of Comeback Community. I’ll tell you more about each of those things in the episode, but for now, thank you very much for choosing to listen to this very first episode of Comeback Coach. There is SO much great audio content out there that I am really and truly delighted that you’ve selected this. Links mentioned in this episode: The Talent Keeper Specialists Comeback Community™ FREE Comeback Conversation online events Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Get Caremail (free, every other Sunday at 7am) Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Connect us to your HR team - bring the Comeback Community™ employee experience to your workplace
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