Steven Bartlett’s CEO: How I Make Career Decisions Around My Family
Motherkind
Zoe Blaskey
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the dream career opportunity arrives… just as motherhood asks more of you than ever before?
In this deeply honest conversation, Zoe sits down with Amy, CEO of Steven Bartlett Private Office, to talk about the impossible equation so many ambitious mothers are trying to solve. From taking a huge new role whilst pregnant, to the tension between career ambition and wanting to be the primary attachment figure for your children, this episode is an incredibly raw exploration of modern motherhood, identity and work.
Amy shares the internal conflict so many mothers carry but rarely say out loud: that sometimes we don’t just work for our children, we work because part of us still deeply wants ambition, creativity, challenge and growth too.
This is an episode about intuition, guilt, love, matrescence and learning to live inside the contradictions of motherhood.
💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why motherhood completely changes the way you approach ambition, career decisions and success
The honest reality of trying to balance leadership, ambition and being the primary attachment figure at home
What happened when Amy told Steven Bartlett she was pregnant during the hiring process for her CEO role
How becoming a mother reshaped Amy’s leadership, priorities and understanding of happiness
This episode will especially resonate if you’ve ever felt torn between the part of you that wants to achieve… and the part of you that wants to be fully present at home.
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| 0:00.0 | At the heart of it all is gut, right from when I was young, just like, does it feel right? |
| 0:05.3 | What you completely fail to realise before you have kids is that actually you've completely forgotten that you're optimising for love. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome back to Motherkind. It is me, your host, Zoe, and we are proudly supported by Wild Nutrition's Women's Supplements. Hello and hello. I hope you |
| 0:23.4 | are all doing really well this week. I've had the most incredible feedback on last week's episode with |
| 0:29.3 | Vanessa King-Gori. So if you haven't listened to that one yet, make sure that you do. And this week, |
| 0:35.4 | I am going to introduce you to someone that you probably |
| 0:38.6 | haven't heard of, but you'll definitely know her boss. Her boss is Stephen Bartlett of Dari of a |
| 0:46.5 | CEO. And Amy Golding, my guest this week, is Stephen's CEO of his private office. I read a piece |
| 0:53.8 | that Amy had written on LinkedIn about being a mum of |
| 0:57.5 | three and taking on this massive role for Stephen at six months pregnant. And I knew I had to get her |
| 1:04.6 | on because there are so many of us, me included, who grapple with these big opportunities coming, whether that's a big |
| 1:13.1 | career opportunity or a relocation opportunity or anyone else of those big life decisions, how do you |
| 1:22.8 | know whether it's the time to go for it, whether it's the time to let the opportunity pass by |
| 1:28.9 | and grab it in a different season. |
| 1:30.8 | That is really what I wanted to understand from Amy. |
| 1:35.0 | And I think that her decision-making process |
| 1:38.4 | and her answer will surprise you. |
| 1:41.0 | We also talk about so much more. |
| 1:48.0 | Her matressants, how she manages holding three children, |
| 1:54.7 | kind of big job, the way that she thinks about Gill and her lens on the working world for women and mothers. Here it is, I hope that you love it. Before we get to the episode, remember |
| 1:59.7 | to subscribe wherever you are listening or watching this. |
| 2:03.7 | It is subscribing that helps me reach so many more women and mothers that need this content. |
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