#43 The Step Up Club - Discussing Work Life Balance & Mentorship

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🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Alice Olins and Phanella Mayall Fine are the driving force behind Step Up Club; the platform championing the success of career women and have now published a book with Ebury called Step Up, full of practical advice for stepping it up in your career. Alice Olins spent a decade at The Times as its Senior Fashion Writer, then Marie Claire’s Fashion Features Director. Today, Alice is the Fashion Features Director-at-Large at Red magazine, and continues to write on a freelance basis for publications including, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail on fashion, lifestyle and careers. Phanella began her career as an international finance lawyer working on multi-billion dollar transactions in London and New York. Now she is an executive coach and development consultant. She coaches and trains professionals on topics including women’s leadership and advancement, self-presentation, maternity and return to work. We talk the differences between being an "integrator" vs a "separator" at work and achieving work life balance, how to choose the right career for you, anxiety, overwhelm and the jitteriness of our overusing our phones. We discuss launching a book alongside another job, overcoming difficult times and the importance of mentorships.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Control-Alt Delete and today's episode is with the Step Up Club.
0:04.9	Alice Ollins and Fonella Male Fine are the driving force behind Step Up Club.
0:09.6	The platform that champions the success of ambitious hardworking women and they have now
0:14.8	published a book with Ebray called Step Up and it's full of practical advice for stepping it up
0:19.8	in your career. The book is so helpful and it is so full of advice. It's not just
0:24.6	about being a top CEO but it's just about having a voice heard in whatever
0:29.2	sex you're in and whatever job you've got and climbing the ladder and being as successful as you want to be and
0:35.1	obviously success is different for everyone and they make that really clear in the
0:39.6	book that it really is a personal thing and I really like it. It's career self-help.
0:45.0	Alice spent a decade at the times and now she is the fashion features director at large at
0:49.6	Red magazine. Fonella began her career as an international finance lawyer in London and New York, and she is now an executive coach.
0:56.0	She coaches and trains top professionals on topics like women's leadership and maternity and return to work.
1:02.0	So, very different career backgrounds but the brilliant
1:06.2	blend of them together has made step up the book which I really recommend you
1:10.6	get. So here's the podcast episode and thank you again to Alice and
1:15.8	Fonella for being so honest on this episode. We had a really lovely chat and
1:20.4	I'm very grateful for them taking time out to talk to me.
1:24.0	So here it is.
1:27.0	Really excited to talk to you both.
1:28.0	So I read Step Up a few weeks ago,
1:30.0	came that last month.
1:32.0	And the first question I wanted to ask was, did you feel like you
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