Motherhood & work: Can we make it easier?

Join my exclusive conversation with city boss, mum of 9, Helena Morrissey. We've got 13 children between us and both worked full time for decades: can we help you define an easier path?

I’ll be talking to Helena on Monday evening live on my Instagram Follow here (March 28th 6pm) about the way we combine motherhood and work, based on her experience as one of the finance industry’s most high profile and successful women and my experience mothering 4 children working on newspapers and magazines.

We’ll be discussing her heartfelt piece in the papers this week in which she talked about how she thought she may have got it wrong. And how she views her decision to go back to work after having children now aged 55. Her children are aged 13 to 30 and she says she thinks she made a mistake making ‘having it all’ look far easier than it actually was. Read here

I wrestle with many of my career decisions now I look at them in retrospect . This feeling has taken me by surprise, it may be down to the expected melancholia of midlife, which makes you focus on the life you have lead in an intense way (I have found). Or it may be I should have been there more for my famly? I don’t feel guilt, and I don’t regret the way I worked and mothered as a Gen X woman but I have started to question my thinking around it. And what society expected of me and the context of the way the work world is set up to be unequal on every level.

We will look back but we will mostly focus on how what we’ve learnt may help other, perhaps younger women in future. And we’ll also be chatting about how finding a way to slow down, be softer, more vulnerable in midlife is perhaps a game changing path for women of this generation. We’ll also discus ideas to rethink the way we work today as women with families. Join us on my Instgram for a live debate.

If you want me to ask Helena a question pop a comment below.