Carer Mums in Business Podcast
A podcast for working carers, with an emphasis on parent carers, entrepreneurship, career transitions, flexible working and well-being.
The Carer Mums in Business Podcast is hosted by Claire O'Hanlon, herself a self-employed mother of 2 young boys: one with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Autism, Dyslexia and Dyscalculia and one with DCD/ Dyspraxia. When Claire's support system collapsed in 2018 following the unexpected passing of her Mum, Claire had no choice but to leave work. Faced with having to live on benefits of start her own business, Claire went with the second options and is dedicated to helping other Mums do the same.
Claire is an experienced enterprise consultant, business advisor and NLP mindset coach who has been providing business, leadership and communication coaching & training for almost 20 years. She has recently pivoted her business to align more fully with her personal life. She now runs her own business supporting other working mums of children with additional needs through coaching, digital products, workshops and courses focused on mindset, enterprise, advocacy/ public speaking. Claire is also a sought after motivational speaker and trainer.
Carer Mums in Business Podcast
3 Ways to Flip the Script on Your Inner Critic
What would happen if you could silence that little voice is your head that keeps shouting at you, telling you that you're a failure, that you're unreliable, that you're not good enough...?
According to research published in PubMed, caring for children with disabilities has a negative effect on mothers’ labour market participation, working hours and labour income. This is a huge societal issue with more needing to be done on a policy level to equal the playing field and make work accessible to mothers who want to work while caring for a child with a disability.
That kind of change takes time and thankfully, there are lots of people working on it.
There's also something else that can hinder working parent carers access to opportunities and it's something we can have more control over - our inner critic.
The little voice inside our head that pretends to be our friend. That tells us we need to play it safe, that we're not good enough, knowledgable enough, employable en ough, reliable enough...
It's that voice that can block the solutions that could help us to work and care, that stops us from asking for the help we need and that keeps us feeling like nothing we do is ever enough because we're always exhausted.
In this episode, we look at what the inner critic is, explore how to differentiate between the unhelpful inner critic, and the helpful voice of realism, and I'll give you 3 handy tips for flipping the script on your inner critic so that you can problem solve more effectively, apply for the promotion, start your own business or do whatever it is that the helpful voice had made you realise is possible.
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