053: Navigating the Complexities of Your Clan and Your Career | Fay Wallis

Our strengths come so naturally to us that usually we dismiss them

[Fay Wallis]

In today’s episode of Mum-to-Mum Monday we’ll be discussing blended families, forging a career you love and how to stay on top of work and home.

My guest today is SuperMum, Fay Wallis.

Fay lives in Greater London, with her husband, Ian and their sons who are 10 and 5 years. Fay’s blended family is a labyrinth, spanning two generations. Her parents having been married 4 times, she has two half siblings, two full siblings and 2 step siblings. This helped Fay to negotiate the logistics of parenting children with vast age ranges and different needs. For when she married Ian, he too had children from his first marriage, and she became a step-mother herself.

Whilst juggling the logistics of organising Sunday lunches and enough birthday and Christmas presents to serve a small army, Fay forged a successful career in HR. She later trained to become a Career Coach, helping people to access the tools to empower themselves to lead a fulfilling working life.

Fay will help us navigate the maze of returning to work, changing career and spending quality time with family, all whilst finding enough time to look after herself too.

I am excited to welcome Fay to my show today where she will tell us all about her busy life and empower you to live the career and home lives you deserve.

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In this episode, we talk about:

• How Fay balances a busy schedule of family events whilst running her own business
• Fay’s advice for re-entering the work place after a career break
• How to make your network work for you both, personally and professionally
• Fitting quality time in with all family members when they are at different stages with different needs
• Time management in your career without being thought of as ‘slacking’
• What inspired Fay to launch her own business
• Managing your employers and colleagues expectations

 Hope you enjoy todays show!

Tell me what you think?

If you want to leave a comment for Fay, whether it’s about the practicalities of blending many branches and generations of family; or how to handle a return to work and have a rewarding career, then we’d love you to come and say hello.

And let us know in the comments;

Are you from a blended family? How do you manage your career and family?

Now, Go Conquer Motherhood!

Lisa York x

Show Notes:

FAY’S INFORMATION

• Website: Bright Sky Career Coaching
• Facebook: Bright Sky Career Coaching
• Twitter: Bright Sky Coach
• LinkedIn: Bright Sky Coaching

ARTICLE’S BY FAY:

• Unleash the Power of Your Network
• Are Your Email Habits Damaging Your Career? (where we talked about eating the frog first)

NETWORKING GROUPS

• BNI: Business Network International
• Networking Mummies

PREVIOUS EPISODES

• 003: A Complete Guide to Returning to Work with Impact | Lucy Pollard
• 035: Seek Out Your Strengths and Discover the Best Possible You | Nikki Smith
• 043: Reclaim You; How to Reignite you Passion, Power and Purpose | Sally Thibault

PROFILE: Laura Stack 

BOOKS:

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
• Eat That Frog!: Get More of the Important Things Done by Brian Tracy

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action by Susan Jeffers

PSSST, IS IT JUST ME?: Thanks to Dylan age 7 from London, UK

FIND TODAY’S SHOW AT: www.Lisa-York.com/053

Lisa York

Lisa believes a happy mum brings up happy kids who become happy adults. With four children aged 7, 6, 4 and 2, finding time for herself is an ongoing challenge. But she’s trying.

Lisa lives with her family in Canberra, Australia.

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