Mama, What’s Next? Career Reinvention & Visibility for Female Founders over 40 Building Service Businesses & Portfolio Careers
This career reinvention podcast is for the woman over 40 pivoting to entrepreneurial and founder roles - rebuilding and reinventing, often after a major life transition, through business or portfolio careers - and she needs to become visible to do it.
So.. you’ve decided to take the leap, you’re building, creating and ready for take-off but no idea how to start telling your story? How to communicate it clearly. I can help.
Let’s turn Your Next Chapter into visible, meaningful work.
Each week I sit down with women who turned their next chapter into visible, meaningful work - and found a way to be seen without losing themselves in the process. Welcome to Mama, What’s Next - where your next chapter is meaningful, free and finally yours.
I’m Mel, a visibility and brand strategist helping women over 40 tell the story of their next chapter - in a way that makes the right people say yes. After successfully building a 20+ year career in the luxury & consumer goods industry alongside brands like Breitling, Davidoff and Baileys.. I transitioned to CSR and then executive recruiting. I’m also a solo parent who’s built a portfolio career across multiple companies and contract roles because that feels like the safest, freest, happiest option for me. And I’m an introvert who had to teach myself video because hiding in the background isn’t an option anymore.
Join us as we talk to female founders going from employee to founder, talking about what it actually takes to transition from 9 to 5 or corporate, position yourself, market yourself and build visibility and a business that respects your capacity as a mother. PS. Stop asking for permission, write your own playbook. Your Way Works (Even if it doesn’t look like everyone else’s).
Bilingual podcast: Ein Teil der Episoden ist in Deutsch und auch hier spreche ich mit Frauen zu diesen Themen: Business und Personal Branding über 40, Sichtbarkeit und Selbstmarketing.
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