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Apr 8

Flexible working advice roundup

It's been 54 weeks since we all home-worked with kids and 52 weeks since I started this weekly newsletter. Both feel like a...

Apr 1

Doctor-mum tells how she exclusively pumped for a year

Dr Sandrine Rey-Scalco is a working mother aka multi-tasker extraordinaire! She is a medical doctor and social gerontologist. At home,...

Mar 19

Don't be a Daphne!

All right, unlike the female characters in the Bridgerton Netflix series, you know where babies come from. But most women are woefully...

Feb 18

Musings on mum guilt and public policy

It's half-term week. Yay, no homeschooling! My son is teaching me to play the card game of Pokemon, and that is fun. But I find myself...

Feb 4

Lessons from an 80-year study on happiness

A nearly 80-year long Harvard study on happiness followed the lives of 268 men (no women I must note) from the age of 18 until their...

Jan 28

How to transform relationships from liabilities to assets

Our relationships shape the way we experience life. They create our ecosystem and impact our personal and professional lives, our health...

Jan 21

The missing link in flexible working

By law, all employees have the right to make a flexible working request if they’ve worked for the employer for at least 26 weeks, and...

Jan 14

To-do lists - let go & start anew or finish everything?

Writing to-do lists felt so mature in my late 20s. I remember the ecstatic feeling of being able to cross everything off my list and wrap...

Jan 1

New Year Resolutions That Work!

Have you ever wondered why some New Year's Resolutions succeed and some are monumental failures? Oh yes! We've all had a few of those!...

Dec 22, 2020

If Your Holiday Plans Have Been Ruined

What are the things you have been looking forward to most about the holidays? Many Governments around the world have just thrown our...

Dec 18, 2020

Trust Yourself

Mid-December each year, I like to sit down with my largest mug of tea and reflect on the achievements of this year, and what my hopes and...

Dec 11, 2020

Family Values: How to Find and Use Yours

You walk into a room full of strangers and you get a sense of what people value by what they wear, how they stand in the room, how and...

Dec 3, 2020

Flexible Working: Manual for Mums

By law, you have the right to make a flexible working request if you’ve worked for your employer for at least 26 weeks and you’re classed...

Nov 19, 2020

The three-word guide on mindfulness

My 6-year-old son is swinging on the swing. I am swinging his younger brother on the other swing. My husband is standing facing me and...

Nov 5, 2020

Stress 101

How often do you stress? What are your stress triggers? Work, family, financial problems, health or slow internet. Most people feel...

Oct 29, 2020

Why you need to know your Values and how to find them

Imagine living a life when every day brings joy and satisfaction, when your choices and experiences feel deeply righteous and give you...

Oct 15, 2020

Flexible working: dos and don'ts

What you need most as a working parent is flexibility, or agility. The agility of mindset and flexibility of time. Read about the mindset...

Oct 8, 2020

If you feel annoyed with your children, your partner, yourself

It often happens when something goes not according to the ideal plan. One of my favourite writers, psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya...

Oct 1, 2020

Ten highlights from Linklaters' 'new normal' work culture

This week I joined a webinar on 'Managing People During a Pandemic' with great thought-provoking presentations by the Chair of The Law...

Sep 24, 2020

What I did not expect as a first-time-mum

What I did not expect when pregnant with my first baby was that the journey would be as much, if not more, about who I was and who I am....

Sep 17, 2020

Working from home with kids - Reality check

Back in March 2020, two weeks into the lockdown, my wonderful friend and a superb leadership coach Amelia Saberwal and I ran a webinar on...

Sep 8, 2020

Working from home or living at work? Boundaries & flexibility

Working from home gave many people the flexibility to review their daily routines towards more work-life balance, like a morning...

Sep 3, 2020

The discomfort you are feeling is grief

Mums, dads, teams and leaders around the world are going through a grieving process. Grief is a normal human reaction to a loss from a...

Aug 21, 2020

The right way to parent, or to do anything really

The fun thing about The Right Way is that it is different everywhere you go. Look at parenting, for example. My family connects four...

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ANYA SMIRNOVA

Coach for Women in Law

Supporting women. Educating the profession.