Inspiring Parent: Judith Plastow from CoThinking Company
This month’s Inspiring Parent, Judith Plastow, is a great example of how you can build on your existing interests, experience, contacts and skills and expand your capabilities into a new sector. Judith found that her day job, the world of advertising and consumer...
Inspiring Parents: From Travel Marketeer to THE BOSS
This month’s Inspiring Parent is the wonderful Judith Hutchinson from Accessible Marketing. What is so wonderful about her story, is that her entrepreneurial drive and ambition pre-dated her children. This was part of her larger work-life balance plans; not only did...
Have you reached your career tipping point?
My career has provided me with a very specific insight into the lives of many, people, at a very specific time in their career history. They come to me because they are looking to make changes in their life; more often than not it is job-related OR becomes job-related...
Inspiring Parents: A Teacher’s Career Change Story
When you choose a career out of school, college or University, it can feel like that is you, for life. You have marked your card and the longer you stay, the less employable you are. What else could you possibly do? It is easy for me, as an experience Career Coach, to...
Inspiring Parents: By Day co-founder shares her story
This month’s Inspiring Parent is someone who is at the forefront of a new revolution in flexible working. Frustrated with the old-fashioned, 9-5 employment mindset that flies in the face of family-friendly working, Nathalia Chubin co-founded By Day, a flexible working...
Inspiring Parent: From Medicine to Mindfulness
Gaining the confidence to change your career can often come from a personal journey. Experiences that create a vision for something that needs to change. Having this type of drive can give you the confidence and self-belief to take the leap. This month, our Inspiring...
Inspiring Parents: Sweet Success with Digital Bon Bons
I love sharing the stories of Inspiring Parents.Taking the leap to self-employment from the security of employment can be a scary thing, but it is something hundreds of parents do every year. There is nothing better than reading about each journey, to understand how...
Inspiring Parent: Volunteering as a route back to work
This month’s Inspiring Parent is Volunteer, Gemma Champion, who is sharing her back to work story with The Balance Collective. Gemma decided to take a career break after the premature birth of her son; his unexpected early delivery led her to reevaluate what she...
Inspiring Parents: How to become an Author
Are writers born or are they created? That is something that I have always wondered when admiring my pile of books to read and writing up my book reviews. How does a writer become an Author? This month’s Inspiring Parent is Melissa Addey, who is an Author and...
Inspiring Parents: How to find work-life balance once the school run starts.
Work-life balance, once you have children, is a re-education. You learn over time that what you need to for you, your career, business and family is never going to be a balance; not if you think balance will be an equal, level, and unchanging thing. I always describe...
Inspiring Parents: The Power of Confidence
I always find it fascinating learning about the journeys people have across their career. Gone are the days where you have a job for life; now it is a time where there are portfolio careers, mixed skills, and international client bases! This month I am featuring the...About
Clara Wilcox is a straight talking, practical and experienced coach helping clients navigate the tricky waters of returning to work, career changes and professional development. The Balance Collective is a social enterprise focused on improving the lives of parents, by working together to build inner confidence and promote a healthy work/life balance.
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