A high touch, three month 1:1 coaching experience for mothers in leadership ready to refocus and reignite their ambition for their career after returning from maternity leave.
You’ve had a baby, not a lobotomy. Yet everyone around you is treating you as if you have. You’re still a brilliant, capable woman who has been through (and is still going through) the biggest identity transformation that you will ever go through.
Who it’s for:
You’re still ambitious and driven but everything has changed since you’ve become a mother.
You’re worried that you can’t have a big, fulfilling career AND be the present mum you want to be; it’s either/or OR it’s a lifetime of exhaustion and overwhelm
You can’t see any women around you thriving in their career and motherhood and honestly, you’re questioning if that’s even realistic
Your plans for returning to work have either fallen by the wayside or you’ve resorted to winging it – which hasn’t worked either
You keep thinking you just need to get more organised and find the right strategies
You’re scared to admit out loud or at work that you want to spend more time with your child for fear of being seen as less ambitious or less committed
You’re back at work and feeling sidelined or overlooked even though you’re working harder than ever
Together, I’ll show you that it’s absolutely possible to be a brilliant mother, have a big, fulfilling career and not lose yourself.
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To design a life that works for your uniqueness and your desires, not the one you were told you should want.
What got you here won’t get you where you want to be without overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout.
What this is not
It’s not career coaching - it’s integrating motherhood with career and success, not setting goals without acknowledging all parts of you and pretending that motherhood hasn’t changed you.
It’s not life coaching - it’s motherhood, woman hood and career without burnout, overwhelm and exhaustion. Most life coaching is based around masculine models of goal setting that don’t work for women, let alone mothers.
It’s not a ‘do more self care’ prescription. Meditate to be a calmer mother and all that kind of gaslighting BS that we’re told as mothers. You can’t meditate yourself out of over-giving and over-proving nor do we all have the same hours in a day to dedicate to these kinds of practices.
It’s not me telling you what to do – I’m here to show you why certain beliefs are driving certain behaviours and to give you tools for your unique toolkit to relearn how to connect to your inner guide/gut/intuition. I don’t have the answers for what’s right in your life, only you know this.
Meet Samantha
I’d returned to work in my corporate career after maternity leave, looking forward to a semblance of normality after the rollercoaster of the first year of motherhood, some thinking space and to challenge my brain. Yet it was so far from what I expected. Everything else was the same but I was an entirely different person.
The confidence in my career and abilities had vanished; I was full of self doubt. I just kept telling myself I just needed time to adjust and to get on with it. But there I was, 6 months after returning from maternity leave and I was crying in the toilets yet again; I still didn’t have it all figured out.
Part of me was looking at my career goals thinking I don’t want these anymore and did I even consciously choose these for myself?
The other part of me was thinking well if not this, then what?
With two decades of experience in the corporate world I know what it’s like to spend years studying, working hard, long hours in (and out of) the office and getting to a place where you feel successful when BOOM!, motherhood hits you smack in the face, lifts you off your feet and lands you 100 miles away, in a deep forest with no clear path out.
When I was pregnant did ALL the things – NCT, hypnobirthing classes, pregnancy yoga, the insta worthy nursery, the expensive pram and car seat – and I thought I was so ready for motherhood.
I couldn’t have been more unprepared.
Soon after the latest snotty toilet situation I discovered matrescence; I finally understood what the h*ll was going through and it was the catalyst that changed everything for me. I rediscovered the brilliant woman who was still inside but was buried under the layers of expectations, judgement from myself, exhaustion and overwhelm.
I rewrote my own rules about what it means to be a woman and a mother on MY terms. Now I’m thriving in motherhood and my career and feel more alive than I ever have (except when my daughter has been up for the 6783th time in the night).
It took me a long time to understand what the f*ck had happened to me but it doesn’t have to be that way for you.
The Details
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The Details -
Three months of tailored support for mothers in leadership returning to work after maternity leave and ready to forge ahead at work after coming out of the new motherhood fog.
A 90 minute kick-off call on Zoom so I can get to know you better and your aspirations for working together
Two further 1:1 60 minute sessions
Self-led Learning + education on motherhood + the systems we mother within to provide context on your mothering journey (provided via an online learning portal)
Guided exercises and audios to provide you with tools to support you in connecting back to yourself (think meditations and similar exercises but inspired by the realities of motherhood!)
Ongoing voice note and messaging support on Mondays throughout the process so that you can pick my brains and I can give you feedback or support. We’re in this together and that means you can lean on me for support outside of our 1:1 sessions.*
A personal workbook for ongoing journalling and reflections to keep and refer back to.
*Via Telegram. Monday 10-3pm except for holidays
I want to remind you again, in case you had forgotten, that you are brilliant, and capable AND have the answers right inside you. I’m here to remind you of this and gently call you out on the sneaky bs that we’re told as women and mothers that keeps us in overthinking and blaming ourselves when it’s the systems we live in that aren’t adequate to support mothers.
Investment
£997
pay in full
2 x £525
(initial payment of £525, subsequent payment 1 month later)