Shifting the Dials with Rebecca Anderton-Davies

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How can you have a career and a life you love, in a world which still isn't set up for you to do either of those things with ease?

This is the question investment banker, mother and prolific side-hustler, Rebecca Anderton-Davies sets out to answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Turning the outdated concept of work-life balance on its head, she has created a framework comprising a series of 'dials', which sees work and life as an ever-shifting series of components. These dials reflect where you are now, and what you need to prioritise, in alignment with your ambitions, values and goals.

Rebecca Anderton-Davies is an investment banker, yoga practitioner and sometimes teacher, author, community builder, wife, and mother of two young sons, based in London. 15+ years into a successful career as a banker, first as a currency sales-trader and now as a relationship manager, she is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

While building her successful corporate career, she fell into yoga (literally getting hit by a truck and turning to it to heal), she has built two Instagram communities with a follower count of nearly 300k: her personal account where she shares her unique combination of yoga, career and family life, and her yoga community account. She published her first book - The Book of Yoga Self Practice - with Yellow Kite in 2020.

You can follow Rebbeca online @rebecca.anderton.davies

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:10.0	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators,
0:18.0	to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates them
0:22.7	to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and inspire,
0:29.5	so I hope that The Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.
0:36.6	Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I'm joined by Rebecca Anderson Davis.
0:41.9	Rebecca is an investment banker, a mother, a yogi, an author and a prolific multi-hyphen in work and
0:49.4	life. As someone who myself has built a career around doing many different things across a few different
0:55.8	industries, I often encourage people to be creative and to be multifaceted and to explore
1:01.8	different paths and say yes to new opportunities and essentially create their own rules when
1:06.5	it comes to work and life. And I also recognize that that doesn't come without challenges,
1:11.4	sacrifices, tradeoffs. And I think many of us learn that lesson the hard way. When it comes to
1:18.6	often people focusing on work, that might come to the detriment of their health, or they might
1:22.8	focus a lot for a period of their life on family, and they might feel as though they make
1:26.8	tradeoffs in other areas like their career. So lots and lots of things to discuss. I'm sure we're going to have
1:32.4	yeah, loads of great things to talk about and of course your new book as well. Welcome to the
1:38.2	podcast. Rebecca, how are you? I'm so thrilled to be here. I'm really well. Thank you for having me.
1:48.0	Well, as I said in my kind of long introduction, I think many of us, and many people probably listen to this podcast, are trying to do our best to optimize our lives.
1:54.0	They might be optimizing our health. We might be trying to build careers, raise families.
1:59.0	We might be trying to support our friends, be a best partner that we can be.
2:01.7	We're trying to do it all. We're trying to be the best and do the most. Always. I feel like not only
2:07.6	myself, we're all doing it. But it's difficult. And as I said, I think sometimes, you know,
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