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The Broad Experience

Episode 179: Sixtyish and Loving It: Perseverance and the Midlife Career Change

The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0592 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the last couple of episodes we talked about the transitions working couples go through. In this show we re-meet a former guest, one half of one such couple. Heather McGregor embraced a big career change at 55, going from entrepreneur to academic dean, continuing a period in her life where she's switched from supportive partner to family breadwinner. Heather has always had an eye on the future, planning for what might come next. She believes it's never too late for a career change - if you prepare ahead of time.

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

0:51.2

I'm Ashley Melentight. In this show, I sit down again with a guest who was a regular during the first few years of this podcast. A lot has changed during

0:55.8

that time. That evolution from why should I have more women in my workplace to how can I get

1:01.9

more women in my workplace, that has come about because this has become a mainstream topic.

1:07.1

So I am really pleased because I think that is genuine advancement in my lifetime.

1:13.3

In the past, Heather McGregor and I have talked about everything from perceptions of women's appearance at work,

1:19.4

to getting ahead without guilt, to the horrors of being fired.

1:24.2

This time, we're talking transitions in life and work. Coming up.

1:34.9

Heather McGregor used to write a column for the Financial Times under the name Mrs. Moneypenny,

1:45.4

and I read it avidly for years. I first got in touch with her after her book Mrs. Moneypenny's career advice for ambitious

1:51.0

women was published. And looking back, I will admit that I was a bit intimidated by Heather at first.

1:58.5

She is no nonsense, candid, opinionated, successful. For many years, she owned and

2:05.8

ran a headhunting firm in London. She wants to help people with their careers, and she

2:10.9

particularly wants to help women who, as she puts it, what a go place is. But she doesn't

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