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Get Your Glow Back

Redundancy and Redirection with Eleanor Tweddell

Get Your Glow Back

Madeleine Shaw

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8553 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor was made redundant after 23 years working in corporate, after an unsuccessful search for a new job she wondered if there was more and begun exploring these thoughts in a blog which became a career. She now runs her consultancy, another door and has just written her first book: Why Losing Your Job Could be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You. On today's episode Eleanor shares her 5 step plan for tackling redundancy and how to create opportunities in difficult times. Shownotes: madeleineshaw.com

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Globe Out Podcast.

0:06.3

I'm joined today by Eleanor Tweedle, author of Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing

0:11.5

That Ever Happened to You.

0:13.2

After a successful corporate career spanning two decades, working in the likes of Virgin Atlantic,

0:19.6

Vodafone and Costa Coffee.

0:21.7

Eleanor's world was turned upside down when she was made redundant.

0:25.9

Over the last few years since she has turned this career into a new beginning

0:29.9

and started her own company, another door, to guide others through redundancy

0:34.6

and help them to realise why it could be the start of something amazing.

0:40.0

On today's episode, Eleanor shares her advice for anyone going through the same situation.

0:46.6

Her top tips for maintaining a positive mindset in difficult times and how we can support

0:51.8

those we love through times of job instability. I really hope you love

0:56.9

listening to this episode. I honestly got so much from it, you know, even though I have an

1:02.2

experience redundancy myself, I'm often, you know, feeling fearful about the future or, you know,

1:08.8

what's going to happen to my career and where is it all going.

1:12.1

And I think this is something we've all experienced because there is no certainty necessarily.

1:18.4

And I think it really inspired me to think positively about it, to know that there's constantly

1:24.1

options, to constantly be growing and learning.

1:29.1

And any kind of twists and terms in life can be the beginning and start of something quite magical. So I hope you

1:35.5

enjoy this episode. Let's bring on the amazing Eleanor. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me.

1:47.6

I'm very excited to talk to you. It's a subject I'm not speaking to anyone about, but it's something I feel like I'm talking to my friends and family,

1:52.4

and that is redundancy. And you've written a book, which is amazing. Congratulations. I would love to

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