Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have Brittany Larson with me today.

She's an experienced communications professional with an extensive background in crisis communications

and public relations. She leads and Public Relations.

She leads the Public Relations Department at the Summit Group.

Brittany recently launched Lively Hood, a community for women who work.

She's going to cover some topics today for women who are thinking about getting back into the workplace.

So welcome, Brittany.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be chatting with you today.

So Brittany, let's start off with your advice for women who are getting back into the workforce either

after a hiatus because they've been raising their children or they've been

too traumatized to work or women who have

perhaps never been in the workplace in the first place. Just in general I think it's a

really exciting time to be a woman. Flexibility has never been more on the table or more expected.

It's a really exciting time to get back into work if you've been raising your kids or maybe you want to try something new and different, there are so many barriers

that we don't face that even our mother's generation's faced.

And so my number one piece of advice for women who say they've been raising their kids and

they've decided to go back to work or maybe they need to supplement their income or

they want to completely change their direction is to balance patients with determination.

We often talk about the stereotype of women being told no or they are too afraid or shy or concern about figuring out what they're worth.

You kind of have to find that balance between being patient but also being determined. If you're coming back into the workforce after years

of not building up your resume in that way,

you're going to have to be patient.

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