Career success and a happy home life - by a mother of 10!
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Busting the “have it all” myth, Lorraine and Trish discuss the realities of building a successful career or business while bringing up a family with the straight-talking entrepreneur, C-suite consultant and mother of 10 (yes, 10) children, Danusia Malina-Derben. What are the qualities that make some women great mothers as well as great leaders, how do we ask for help and what might a menopause-friendly workplace look like? Lorraine and Trish discover the answers to these questions and more. Plus: getting messy teens to do their bit around the house, and what’s changed their lives this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:09.0 | The show where we help you through the Midlife, the menopause, motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:14.7 | On postcards from the midlife today, who's coming on? What are we talking about? |
| 0:22.1 | Well, we're going to be talking about how to build your |
| 0:24.7 | career and still have a happy home life and we're also going to be talking about the thorny subject of |
| 0:29.7 | messy teenagers and why it's not their fault but what you can do about it. |
| 0:34.4 | To share some expert advice and very wise words on both of today's topics, our special guest |
| 0:39.7 | is Denusha Melina Durbin, who is a super successful business consultant and mother of 10. |
| 0:45.8 | Yes, you heard that correctly, 10 children. |
| 0:48.8 | She is also the founder of the School for Mother's website and the School for Father's website too and |
| 0:54.5 | hosts its weekly podcast. But firstly Lorraine we've both been yawning a bit |
| 0:59.4 | this morning. I am. We're a little bit tired. In our house we call it tired you know when you spell it wrong |
| 1:06.0 | with because you're so tired so we are tired why are you so tired well there's a |
| 1:11.3 | there is a reason I fell asleep on the tube to work the other day, which is very, very |
| 1:16.0 | unlike me. So I went to the doctor because I've been a bit quite tired for quite a long time, |
| 1:21.2 | on and off, but it's kind of exceptionally sort of in my bones tired and it turns out I'm anemic. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | So you can only, there are only certain amount of iron you can get from vegetables. I have been toying with a vegetarian lifestyle, |
| 1:36.3 | turns out, doesn't quite work for me. So I've had to take iron tablets and now have to look at |
| 1:42.0 | eating spinach while drinking orange juice because |
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