The career podcast for women giving group whatsapp vibes. For women who want to learn strategies to take them to the next level their career - and also to have a bit of a laugh along the way.
Bec and Annie share a passion for women, and an interest in self development. However, they’ve both had really different careers and learned different things along the way.
Bec’s a corporate machine, and Annie’s a startup queen. In the career coven they share and compare experiences - learning from each other along the way. Expect topics like confidence, managing up and boundaries to be discussed (usually over a glass of wine).
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The career podcast for women giving group whatsapp vibes. For women who want to learn strategies to take them to the next level their career - and also to have a bit of a laugh along the way.
Bec and Annie share a passion for women, and an interest in self development. However, they’ve both had really different careers and learned different things along the way.
Bec’s a corporate machine, and Annie’s a startup queen. In the career coven they share and compare experiences - learning from each other along the way. Expect topics like confidence, managing up and boundaries to be discussed (usually over a glass of wine).
S2, E2 The Career Coven: Pregnancy at Work with Alice Pelton
The Career Coven, with Bec & Annie
56 minutes
1 year ago
S2, E2 The Career Coven: Pregnancy at Work with Alice Pelton
In this week's episode of the Career Coven, Bec interviews Alice Pelton who is the founder and CEO of the Lowdown. The Lowdown is a health platform - where women can research their health choices (used by over 2 million women per year). Alice and Bec have an honest conversation about what it's really like being pregnant at work, and being a leader. Bec felt that there were lots of parts of becoming pregnant which were not explained to her at all, and both Bec and Annie feel that pregnancy at work is something that is not openly discussed. We want to give a voice to some of what people go through whilst pregnant.
Quote of the episode — "Women are fucking amazing actually."
A trigger warning for this episode - we do cover the topic of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. We know that some people will find this content upsetting, so we wanted to be up front about that. But as so many women will experience pregnancy loss on the journey to parenthood, we wanted to keep this information in.
This episode covers:
* Getting pregnant whilst working
* The misinformation women are told about pregnancy
* Coping with the nausea
* How your hormones change in pregnancy, and their impact on you
* The pressure to perform at your best, whilst pregnant
* The importance of naps
* How and when to tell people
* When you should go on mat leave
* Returning to work (don't come back first week of Jan)
* How you prioritise better when you're a parent
* Childcare once you're coming back to work
And most importantly - how amazingly worth it the journey to being pregnant is. Alice provides a lot of tips about what she would do differently next time she was pregnant. Gold-dust!
Enjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think! hello@careercoven.com
Content & recommendations from this episode:
* Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Matrescence-Metamorphosis-Pregnancy-Childbirth-Motherhood/dp/1802061304/ref=asc_df_1802061304/]- Lucy Jones
* The Lowdown [https://thelowdown.com/]
* Alice's Substack [https://alicepelton.substack.com/]
* Bubble [https://joinbubble.com/] - an app for booking nannies and childcare
The Career Coven, with Bec & Annie
The career podcast for women giving group whatsapp vibes. For women who want to learn strategies to take them to the next level their career - and also to have a bit of a laugh along the way.
Bec and Annie share a passion for women, and an interest in self development. However, they’ve both had really different careers and learned different things along the way.
Bec’s a corporate machine, and Annie’s a startup queen. In the career coven they share and compare experiences - learning from each other along the way. Expect topics like confidence, managing up and boundaries to be discussed (usually over a glass of wine).
