Steven Bartlett’s CEO: How I Make Career Decisions Around My Family

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<p>What happens when the dream career opportunity arrives… just as motherhood asks more of you than ever before?</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This is an episode about intuition, guilt, love, matrescence and learning to live inside the contradictions of motherhood.</p><p><strong>💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Why motherhood completely changes the way you approach ambition, career decisions and success</p></li><li><p>The honest reality of trying to balance leadership, ambition and being the primary attachment figure at home</p></li><li><p>What happened when Amy told Steven Bartlett she was pregnant during the hiring process for her CEO role</p></li><li><p>How becoming a mother reshaped Amy’s leadership, priorities and understanding of happiness</p></li></ul><p>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.</p><p>You can connect with Amy via <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-golding-0a600623/">LinkedIn</a></p><p><strong>Watch every full episode on </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emma-grede-your-kids-dont-need-you-to-be-their-everything/id1295306961?i=1000764634827"><strong>YouTube</strong></a><strong> and subscribe.</strong></p><p><strong>Loved this episode?</strong></p><p>Follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode of Motherkind. It helps more mothers find the show and keeps our community growing.</p><p>If you enjoyed this episode, you might also enjoy Zoe’s conversation with <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emma-grede-your-kids-dont-need-you-to-be-their-everything/id1295306961?i=1000764634827">Emma Grede</a> on ambition, motherhood and self-expression.</p><p><strong>Feeling different since becoming a mother? Get clarity on who you’re becoming now and download your</strong> <a href="https://course.motherkind.co/the-matrescence-podcast-epiodes-cheat-sheet">FREE Matrescence Cheat Sheet</a></p><p><strong>Connect with Zoe:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Follow Zoe on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zoeblaskey/">Instagram</a><strong>, </strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoelevings/">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zoeblaskeymotherkind?lang=en">TikTok</a></p></li><li><p>Get Zoe’s Sunday Times bestselling book, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motherkind-happiest-fulfilled-empowering-podcast/dp/0008650829/ref=zg_bsnr_g_books_d_sccl_2/260-9943622-5435716?psc=1">'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>This Motherkind episode is sponsored by:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Headline sponsor Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at <a href="http://wildnutrition.com/motherkind">wildnutrition.com/motherkind</a>. Ts and Cs apply.</p></li></ul>