S8: The future of business is flexible with Anna Whitehouse, Journalist and Founder of Mother Pukka

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The recent months have moved the conversation around flexible working forward at a dramatic pace, but as employees realise the huge benefits, will businesses change the way in which they ask their most valuable assets to work?

Anna Whitehouse, also known as Mother Pukka has been leading the Flex Appeal campaign for flexible working since 2015, and throughout this conversation she shares her own personal journey, from lawyer, to journalist and then finding her voice leading the campaign for change.

Sharing the insights and statistics that highlight the many benefits of a flexible workforce, Anna also delves into the lows along her own journey and reflects on how these moments led to her being the voice of change for women in the workplace across the UK.

Warning - in this conversation Anna covers the difficult topic of miscarriage.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Series 8, a little bit of a longer break than planned, but I'm so happy to be back and to be shining a light on some of the most incredible and inspiring stories.
0:11.0	And what a series we have in store for you. Today I'm welcoming the
0:15.5	wonderful Anna White House aka Mother Pucker to the podcast. Journalists, radio
0:21.1	presenter, author and campaigner Anna is most known for her brilliant
0:25.7	Flex Appeal campaign, which she began back in 2015 advocating for better access to flexible working hours.
0:34.0	And it couldn't feel more of an apt time to be chatting to Anna
0:38.0	when the whole working world is changing
0:40.0	and businesses are having to reassess their ways of working, hopefully more flexibly.
0:47.0	It was an honest, inspiring and hilarious chat which I know you all love. Just a note though Anna covers some difficult
0:55.0	subjects in this conversation so do check the show notes.
1:00.0	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to conversations of inspiration. I'm the founder of Not on the
1:08.1	High Street and Holly and Coe and I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses.
1:14.0	I believe that having a business doing what you love
1:16.9	is the key to a happy fulfilled life,
1:19.7	and my dream is to help everybody start theirs. So I've reached out to all my favorite
1:24.8	small businesses, acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me and
1:30.4	ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor, NatWest, who have helped bring this free podcast to life.
1:37.0	Here are my conversations of inspiration.
1:40.0	Bow your head and let your eyelids close on down where we're going you won't need to bring your
1:47.6	frown.
1:48.6	Hi Anna I've been a huge admire of yours for a while now so even though we're not actually meeting face to face
1:56.8	It's really lovely to finally meet you. This is the first podcast we've recorded remotely on conversations of inspiration.
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