The Woman Who Didn't Work

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A single sentence from a stranger can expose a belief you didn’t even know you were living by. I’m taking you back to my early 20s in Sydney when I worked as a recruiter and interviewed a woman who seemed like the perfect hire. The company even offered a temp-to-perm setup, and I was ready to make the match happen fast. Then she stopped me with total calm: she couldn’t work for a couple of months because she was getting married. What hit me wasn’t the wedding. It was the fact that paus...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.
0:09.8	When I was in my early 20s in Sydney, working as a recruiter in the US, you call it a headhunter,
0:16.1	I met this woman who I've never forgotten.
0:19.5	It was a really interesting interview and it's
0:23.6	clearly stayed with me, what, 20 years later or so now? I was interviewing for a full-time job
0:31.3	and the company were willing to take a temp in place because they wanted the perfect candidate.
0:37.4	And I was interviewing
0:38.1	this woman who seemed perfect. She looked the part, had the right experience. She was a fit.
0:44.0	Like it was a traditional resume, see the fit for a job. And I explained that to her. I said,
0:50.3	look, they're willing to interview, but also start as a temp. You can go, what's called
0:54.8	temp to pump, meaning you could start as a temp, and then if it works out for both of you,
0:58.1	you could decide to make it a full-time commitment. And she almost stopped me as I was getting
1:02.5	excited telling her, look, you know, let's send you in there and see what you think. She said,
1:07.2	you know, I can't work for a couple of months because I'm getting married. And it's interesting. The word trigger wouldn't be quite true as to how I felt in that moment. I felt a little bit annoyed because I wanted to fill my job and I knew that she was perfect. And I wanted her to have, in my opinion at the time, more of a work ethic. That's what I thought. I was like, come on, girl, where's your hustle? And the more I thought about it, and the more I think,
1:31.2	gosh, why do I still remember this now? It's for a couple of reasons. The first was the complete
1:38.6	contrast registered with me. I've been working since I was 14 in a bakery. I've worked, worked, worked. I love
1:48.8	it. I love showing up. To me, joy is service, okay? I love it. I don't want to give it up.
1:56.7	I don't want to be a kept woman. I don't want to spend two months off planning a wedding.
2:00.6	That's not what I want.
2:01.3	That's not what the trigger was.
2:03.3	The trigger was this.
2:07.8	For some reason, this girl was in a completely different dimension to me where that was even an option.
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