Career Change Allies: Paul Porter - Being a male ally for career changers

05/26/22 • 32 min

In this episode I chat to Paul Porter who is passionate about people, growth, employee engagement, and experience that enables individuals and teams to be the best they can be every day. Paul is a true male ally to everyone wanting to develop or make changes in their careers. As an HR and Leadership professional, now working with Thrive Law - Employment Law and HR Specialists, Paul offers a huge amount of advice and insight in this episode - touching on what a male ally is, how to find them and how we can all impact the world of equality and diversity. Paul articulates his awareness of the privileges he has (male, white, educated...) but shares how he - and others like him - can be supporters and sponsors to anyone trying to make changes in their careers. Paul is a father of three children and he and his wife work hard to ensure an equal balance in the household - stressing the importance of role modelling this behaviour to our children. You can find out more about the work Paul, Jodie Hill and the rest of the Thrive Tribe do to help organisations better support and engage their employees here: https://www.thrivelaw.co.uk/ Don't forget to also join my free Facebook group Career Happy Mums If you are stuck, going around in circles trying to work out what on earth to do about feeling unhappy in your career, I am here to help you figure it all out and get an action plan in place. You can book a free consultation with me by clicking here: My Diary

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Career Shifters: Louise Long - Making your passion your career

In this episode I chat to Louise Long - a Personal Trainer and Functional Nutritionist. We discuss the possibly unexpected similarities in the clients we help - whether it is career change or lifestyle and fitness, they all start with mindset.

Louise who, after making significant changes to her own lifestyle, fitness and nutrition after becoming a mum; has taken her personal successes and turned them into her full time business.

Louise shares her personal journey to reaching this goal, describing the "old" her as the diet industries dream! When she became a mum, it became really important to Louise to set a good example to her children and so began her path into the world of fitness and nutrition - doing things the right way for lasting results that all result in a healthy lifestyle - not just a fad diet.

Louise is all about empowering women to be the best they can be. This episode is full of insight that can help you in all areas of life - including career changes.

You can connect visit Louise's website here: https://www.louise-long.com/

Or find her on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/_louiselong_/?hl=en

Don't forget to also join my free Facebook group Career Happy Mums

If you are stuck, going around in circles trying to work out what on earth to do about feeling unhappy in your career, I am here to help you figure it all out and get an action plan in place. You can book a free consultation with me by clicking here: My Diary

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Career Shifters: Kelly Keating - establishing a portfolio career

In this episode I chat to Kelly Keating who, with a career spanning 25 years across SMEs the Third Sector and Financial Services, has purposefully established a portfolio career to ensure life and career can work together and be mutually rewarding.

Kelly shares her journey to reaching this goal, giving insight to a few of the many things Kelly is involved in as an employee, a self-employed Coach, a charity Board member, the co-lead of a professional female networking platform as well as being a mum to a five-year-old and a wife!

Kelly shares how she has positioned herself to make a difference - in her organisation and outside of this by living true to her values of Integrity, Community, Compassion, Growth and Connection.

Kelly does not profess to being Superwoman by any means (although I do wonder!) and is very honest about the "juggle" she still manages. The clear positive here though, is Kelly's passion for all she does resulting in the fulfilment her portfolio career affords her.

Kelly is upbeat, positive yet grounded and I am confident you will find this episode both interesting and inspiring.

You can connect with Kelly via Linked In here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-keating-acc-38b72a14/

If you would like to become a part of the Networking group Kelly co-leads, please join the Aspiring Women Facebook Group

Don't forget to also join my free Facebook group Career Happy Mums

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