Steven Bartlett’s CEO: How I Make Career Decisions Around My Family

About this episode

Zoe Blaskey interviews Amy, CEO of Steven Bartlett Private Office, about the challenges of balancing career ambition with motherhood.

What happens when the dream career opportunity arrives… just as motherhood asks more of you than ever before? In this deeply honest conversation, Zoe sits down with Amy, CEO of Steven Bartlett Private Office, to talk about the impossible equation so many ambitious mothers are trying to solve. From taking a huge new role whilst pregnant, to the tension between career ambition and wanting to be the primary attachment figure for your children, this episode is an incredibly raw exploration of modern motherhood, identity and work. Amy shares the internal conflict so many mothers carry but rarely say out loud: that sometimes we don’t just work for our children, we work because part of us still deeply wants ambition, creativity, challenge and growth too. This is an episode about intuition, guilt, love, matrescence and learning to live inside the contradictions of motherhood. 💡 In this episode, you’ll learn: Why motherhood completely changes the way you approach ambition, career decisions and success The honest reality of trying to balance leadership, ambition and being the primary attachment figure at home What happened when Amy told Steven Bartlett she was pregnant during the hiring…

People in this episode

Host: Zoe Blaskey

Guest: Amy

Topics covered

• motherhood
• career decisions
• ambition
• work-life balance
• leadership
• identity

Keywords

• motherhood
• career
• ambition
• leadership
• work-life balance
• identity
• matrescence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Steven Bartlett Private Office

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