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Inspiring Women in Business Podcast Trailer
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Hello and welcome to the Inspiring Women in Business podcast. My name is Ruth Gilbey, and I’m a business and marketing coach. I’m on a mission to inspire women to start and play bigger in business.
I’ve started this podcast because when I first went all in and left the corporate world to be a freelancer, I was grateful for any work that came my way.
I was a new Mum of twins on maternity leave in a recession, Googling jobs that could be done from home and around my family. I remember that low point when someone suggested a job in Sainsbury’s, no disrespect to anyone who works in a supermarket, but my last role was a senior operations manager, managing large teams and big budgets. I’d completely overlooked the 20 years of experience I had running projects and growing businesses. I had vital business experience in accounts, sales, project management, marketing, customer service, and managing teams. However, I disregarded this experience and thought all my skills were irrelevant or out of date.
I lost confidence, dumbed down my skills and never even considered being a business owner. I thought this was what other people did.
I then got the online courses bug, upskilled in anything and everything to do with digital marketing and reinvented myself as a digital marketer. I defined myself as the last course I did. I always thought I need “just one more course” before I took action. And even though I embrace lifelong learning, I hadn’t done vital work on working out what I wanted, as I’d never permitted myself to have the business I wanted. I had no idea what mindset, imposter syndrome or limiting beliefs meant as it had been 20 years since I’d challenged myself to step out of my comfort zone.
In 2017, I finally started listening to that voice that had been telling me for a long time that I wasn’t doing what I loved and wasn’t fulfilling my true potential. It took a critical illness to give me that wake-up call. I don’t want the same to happen to you.
You can expect practical advice, inspiring stories and a lot of aha moments as we uncover and kick to the curb all the obstacles you have been putting in your way.
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