Hi everyone, Ashley here. I'm in the midst of working on a couple of new shows for you, but while I'm also juggling a bunch of work projects and an impending family visit, I'm re-releasing a show that I first produced in the summer of 2015. Some of you may remember this one. In it, I spoke to the author Laura Vandercam, and she's a big

proponent of better time use on everyone's part, but the book she brought out a few years ago

was specifically about how women can better use our time. So I hope you enjoy it if you haven't

listened to it before. And if you have, maybe you'll give it another go.

I will see you again at the end of July or the beginning of August. But in the meantime, here's the show.

Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Melmight.

This time, my guest says women have brought into a story, a dark tale that says we can't have

have senior jobs and a thriving family life.

We just don't have time to make it all work.

But she says, beware of scaling back.

If people are thinking about taking an 80% schedule, I would caution against that

because it is quite possible to slack for 20% of the time and still get paid for it.

Coming up, how women with big jobs manage their time and what the rest of us can learn from that.

During the fourth episode of the broad experience, I met someone regular listeners have come to know.

Financial Times columnist Mrs Moneypenny believes women can achieve whatever they want.

It all comes down to choices.

Whatever your ambition, it is very unlikely that you will achieve it if you don't put some time into it.

There are 168 hours in the week. There's a great book,

by the way, in the States called 168 hours, which I highly commend to you. You need, as an ambitious

person, forget ambitious woman, to take that 168 hours and use it wisely. The author of that book,

168 hours, is Laura van der Cam. She's become a well-known writer

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