Trailing spouses are known for making the ultimate sacrifice; they give up their careers and lives at home to follow their partners overseas....
Real-life Career Stories
Discover honest, relatable career stories from real women balancing motherhood and professional life. Be inspired by their paths and choices.
Benefits of being a Working Mother: Life as a parent can help work focus
Life before kids, wow, what a difference! Before having kids you’re repeatedly told life will be so different when you have kids! All my...
Creating my own Flexible Work – Personal Assistant, Entrepreneur, Franchise holder
When Vicky Matthews took voluntary redundancy from a high-street bank after the birth of her second child, she vowed no-one she ever employed...
Changing Career through volunteering with the Army Cadet Force
Kim Green is a single mother of two teenage sons, an incident management coordinator, and a Sergeant Instructor with the Army Cadet Force. For...
Interview with A Returner from Credit Suisse Returners Programme
Julianne Miles interviews Julia Dawson, a 2014 Real Returns participant to find out more about her experiences in last years Credit Suisse...
From Registered Nurse to Plug-In Developer
Now here's a great story of a mother changing career. To inspire you all to try something new. Of course there is lots of work in nursing, but...
Motherhood, Starting a Business and Simon Cowell
Starting a business is a daily uphill struggle, or at least it can feel like that at times. Working mother and entrepreneur Michaela knows...
An Unemployed Mother Becomes an Independent Financial Adviser
How do some women seem so focused and clear in their decisions? How do they turn their lives around and turn the worse situation into a...
How I re-wrote the rules when returning to work and became a coach
Before having children, I was a high-performing, highly motivated, ambitious and driven woman – in fact, I still am. Following the birth of my...
Reclaiming ME from motherhood – How coaching helped me change career
I am a Personal and Professional Coach who specialises in helping professional working mums to reconnect to themselves after having their...
Mid Life Career Change – Unlocking Your Full Potential
I have always been passionate about what I do, and that’s why I do it. Even from the beginning of my career I made a pact with myself, that the...
Returning to work: from investment analyst to on-line entrepreneur
Amanda Seabrook is a 38 year-old mother of 3. Returning to work to work after a 7 year gap, she founded Workpond, a new online job site for...