Our second ep of the Career Coven is on boundaries - the things that keep you sane, and can also drive you insane. In this episode we hear from Bec who has spent a lot of time thinking about boundaries, and Annie who is in her boundary ‘discovery’ era. We talk about types of boundaries, experimentation, the opportunity cost of saying ‘yes’ to everything, professional boundaries, the role of communication, powering through the awkwardness and guilt, and why is it that senior leaders all have weird niche hobbies? Because they have boundaries.

You’ll also hear us unpack some great questions from women on:

• What can managers do to ensure their teams achieve healthy work/life balance and encouraging high performance? Can you have both?
• Boundaries with self - how do you balance going that extra mile, upskilling, and challenging yourself, whilst maintaining perspective that there is more to life than work?
• As a people pleaser, sometimes I feel when I set boundaries I have to essentially apologise or make up for it later. How do I work on showing up authentically and standing my ground when setting deadlines and boundaries?

Content recs, references & extra reading

• A phenomenal podcast episode referenced throughout - Best Friend Therapy podcast, S01E01, Emma Reed Turrell & Elizabeth Day
• Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett & David Evans
• Personal Strategy by Kit Jackson
• The perils of getting sh*t done (and the need for boundaries), Roger Taylor
• How to say no - templates to help you say no in any situation

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P.S. Thanks for bearing with the audio gremlins, we are working on improving this for future recordings!