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Carer Mums in Business Podcast
A podcast for working carers, with an emphasis on parent carers, entrepreneurship, career transitions, flexible working and well-being.
The Carer Mums in Business Podcast is hosted by Claire O'Hanlon, herself a self-employed mother of 2 young boys: one with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyscalculia and one with DCD/ Dyspraxia. When Claire's support system collapsed in 2018 following the unexpected passing of her Mum, Claire had no choice but to leave work. Faced with having to live on benefits of start her own business, Claire went with the second options and is dedicated to helping other Mums do the same.
Claire is an experienced enterprise consultant, business advisor and NLP mindset coach who has been providing business, leadership and communication coaching & training for almost 20 years. She has recently pivoted her business to align more fully with her personal life. She now runs her own business supporting other working mums of children with additional needs through coaching, digital products, workshops and courses focused on mindset, enterprise, advocacy/ public speaking. Claire is also a sought after motivational speaker and trainer.
Carer Mums in Business Podcast
In Conversation with Dee Cowburn
Dee is Mum to 2 girls, Thea (9) and Tilly (8). She is a former journalist and Crisis Communications expert and runs Chart PR on a part time basis around being a carer for Tilly who lives with Rett Syndrome.
I was delighted to host this conversation with Dee where we explored everything from having life turned up-side down by a diagnosis, to normalising conversations about the challenges of being a parent-carer, to creating flexibility to work so that we can 'take our head somewhere else', to balancing the many, many things that we as working parent carers have to do.
In this episode, Dee shares the hope a former colleague gave her by telling her 'there will be a future after' (referring to having to leave work to care for Tilly), how she balances caring for a child with complex needs with also being there for Thea, how she creates balance between her business & caring, some of her time management strategies and, of course, the all important self care.
Dee speaks of knowing that you are enough as you are right now and the poem that she mentions is linked below.
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