27 episodes
If She Can, I Can Olivia Brafman
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- Business
Go on the journey with Olivia Brafman, your host, as she figures out if women really can have the high flying career, and the family - and if so, how on earth do we navigate it all?
Each episode talks candidly to inspiring and successful women in their field who have been there, done that. Learn about their climb to the top, their failures, successes, choices and sacrifices, on balancing their professional dreams with the expectations and pressures of being a mother.
For all those women who feel in their prime to ‘lean in’, but yet their biological clocks are holding them back, I’m here to learn from the women who have proven the statistic wrong. Why? I'm determined to help more mothers not be forced out of work and instead, storm into those C-Suites, judgement aside and babes in arms.
Get in touch for collabs, press, advertising, guest speaking opportunities and more by emailing olivia.brafman@gmail.com or DM'ing Olivia_brafman on IG
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That's a Wrap - Season 2 Takeaways
That's a wrap for Season 2. Here are my 3 key takeaways - I would love to hear yours too. Thank you for all of your support for the podcast and coming on this journey with me. I want to hear from you on what you want to see or hear next and from who? Should there be a Season 3? We've only just scratched the surface!
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BONUS EPISODE - The Tech COO, Amber Coster - Addressing the big Taboos
How many colleagues do you know that we’re open at work about when they were going to try for a/another baby?
Why do you think that is?
Fear of not being seen as committed? Fear of being treated differently? Missing out on the promotion or bonus? Judgement? What if the conception or pregnancy doesn’t go to plan?
It’s such a huge life changing event that impacts every part of our being - mentally, physically, emotionally, financially. Any yet, at work, it’s business as usual.
Incredible and inspirational leaders like Amber Coster, COO of Unmind, are bravely rewriting the rules, candidly speaking out about pregnancy, mental health and parenthood, and paving the way to normalise what is, well, NORMAL!
Amber Coster, Chief Operating Officer at Unmind
No stranger to scaling at pace, Amber’s held Vice President positions at hyper growth companies, ClickUp and AppDynamics. Amber leads Unmind’s business operations and people and talent functions with a focus on building a people-centric, high-performing business that delivers indisputable value to clients.
Follow Amber on Linked In
Read Amber's piece about Antenatal Depression for Happiful here
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Get in touch to work together: Olivia.brafman@gmail.com
Website: https://ifshecanican.my.canva.site/
IG: Olivia_brafman
Youtube/TikTok: @ifshecanicanpodcast
Music Production by: @digitalfarmanimals
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S2, Ep11 - The Television Presenter, Emma Freedman - True Contentment
What does success mean to you and would you consider yourself successful?
I often ask my guests this and have received the most beautiful answers over the Seasons. Ones that have quite honestly changed my whole perspective, especially as a mother. Yet, I don't think anyone has articulated or embodied success as perfectly as Australian Sports Television presenter Em Freedman. She gives me hope it is possible to have it all, and I can't think of a better guest and message to leave this Season on.
It's happiness, true contentment, at work and at home. It's when you stop thinking 'what's next'. It's not about having the most money, biggest following, highest status or best sounding title. It's doing something you love whilst carving out enough time with the people you love.
However unconventional your setup might be, and whatever your situation, drown out the noise and determine success your way. You might be more successful than you ever thought possible.
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Emma Freedman is an Australian television and radio presenter. Freedman formerly co-hosted The Grill Team on Triple M Sydney. Prior to this, she was a weather presenter on Weekend Today and host of Sports Sunday on the Nine Network.
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Get in touch to work together: Olivia.brafman@gmail.com
Website: https://ifshecanican.my.canva.site/
IG: Olivia_brafman
Youtube/TikTok: @ifshecanicanpodcast
Music Production by: @digitalfarmanimals
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S2, Ep10 - The Motivational Speaker, Holly Curby - Living your Purpose
The power of a positive mindset.
Your life will undoubtedly take turns you didn’t expect, that de-rail plans and dreams you had set. It’s easy to see the negative in these situations. ‘Why me!’
Have you ever stepped back to consider the positives? How can these turns enrich us, strengthen us, help us learn, create new experiences, bring new people into our lives or get us to places we never new were possible.
Holly Curby is the queen of finding strength and positivity through some of life’s biggest personal challenges. Her perspective is enlightening, refreshing and amazingly relatable. Being a working mother was not part of the original plan, but it’s amazing what someone can do when life throws you lemons.
Purchase Holly's Book: Face-Lift: Embracing Hope through your Heartaches
Follow Holly: https://www.hollycurby.com/
Get in touch to work together: Olivia.brafman@gmail.com
Website: https://ifshecanican.my.canva.site/
IG: Olivia_brafman
Youtube/TikTok: @ifshecanicanpodcast
Music Production by: @digitalfarmanimals
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S2, Ep9 - The Social Media Creator - Chloe Pierre - Self-Care
STOP. Think about your week. How much ‘me’ time have you carved out for yourself?
It’s so often that we put ourselves last. Kids, work, friends, family - they all need us. Never wanting to disappoint we show up for them all. Exhausted, ill, burned out - we still show up. Hungry, stressed, sad - we show up yet again. What version of ourselves are we truly presenting if we don’t practice self-car? I’m talking fed, watered, rested, relaxed, exercised and happy. Now that’s a version of me I would prefer to be around!
As a single parent, and entrepreneur Chloe Pierre has to work harder than most to prioritise her self-care. But, imagine making time to do the things you love, and then not feeling like you fit in just because of what you look like?
Then imagine taking matters into your own hands after this experience, creating a community of black women just like you, to practice self-care together, so you can make sure no-one else is made to feel like you did. Then write a book about it (Take Care - A Black Women’s guide to Wellness). It takes a certain type of amazing person right?
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Follow Chloe:
IG: @Chloepierreldn, @thy.self
Order Chloe's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Take-Care-Black-Womens-Wellness/dp/1472286006
Get in touch to work together: Olivia.brafman@gmail.com
Website: https://ifshecanican.my.canva.site/
IG: Olivia_brafman
Youtube/TikTok: @ifshecanicanpodcast
Music Production by: @digitalfarmanimals
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S2, Ep8 - The Ex Minister of Pensions, Baroness Ros Altmann CBE - Deciding between your career and your family
Where would you be in your career if you didn’t have kids?
For many, (mainly women), kids meant missing out on the promotion they really wanted because they took time out and others got ahead, or foregoing a full salary or commission because they had to go part time to manage the childcare. It meant work relationships dwindled and networks were lost because they replaced after work dinner and drinks with bath and bedtime, or it meant having to leave or change their career entirely, because childcare costs, coupled with lack of flexibility and work pressures made it impossible to continue.
For Ros Altmann after an incredible high-flying career in the city, she left it entirely after having her third child. To her, despite her success, ambition and opportunities ahead, her family needed her and took priority. It is a decision that so many women are forced to face. Do you pick your career or your family?
Rest assured, Ros never regretted that decision. In her words ‘you can’t reverse the clock’.
What’s amazing, is that the hard work she put into her career pre-kids, to build a name for herself, grow her knowledge, perfect her skills and nurture key relationships, paid off. Once the kids were at school, she well and truly went on to break the glass ceiling (even to her surprise), and achieved her biggest career accomplishments to date.
If you are in the midst of making those choices, just know, your hard work can and will still pay off, and you have huge accomplishments to come, i'm sure of it.
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Get in touch to work together: Olivia.brafman@gmail.com
Website: https://ifshecanican.my.canva.site/
IG: Olivia_brafman
Youtube/TikTok: @ifshecanicanpodcast
Music Production by: @digitalfarmanimals
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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