Why I built the Corporate Recovery Program

I thought it might be nice to share a little more with you about WHY exactly I’ve designed the Corporate Recovery program. That way you get to see if it fits with what you are looking for. If any of what I say resonates with you, then I’d say, yes, come join us! 

The magic of this process is that the people who are really needing this and will love it the most are also the ones who bring the most wonderful energy to the group. It is a self-section that makes true magic.

To get here, to the WHY of this program, we have to roll back the years a bit. Look, I could give you my whole life story but that would take a long time and you would get bored.

The short version: I became a lawyer in 2012, escaped 4 years later into the world of Legal Operations and there prospered for many years before burnout hit me for six.

My career trajectory was epic. New titles every year, good pay rises, a job I could just do so well. I was a GO GETTER and I was go getting in a big way. 

Then I met the pandemic and oh actually woops I had a baby in April 2020 – good timing right. Also, reader, I married a barrister – one who has picked up a class action practice. Meaning, busy. Meaning, stressed. Meaning, all consuming.

So, like any good woman I lost my mind slightly, picked myself up and was FINE. No really, FINE. Look at me, I was back at work when my baby was seven months old. I took on the really big new exciting job. The one that was going to ‘make me’.  

I was thriving, building a successful business, travelling like a champ, keeping it all together, even in a year and half of household sickness that just.kept.coming. It was relentless and my immune system was shot. But I was DOING IT ALL!

Well, I was thriving at work and also somehow managing to mostly feel like a good mum, but unfortunately I also pretty much burnt myself into the ground. It really snuck up on me in a big way.

Until I realised that I was anxious about everything all the time. That I had this tight fury bubbling in my chest. That I was exhausted and the smallest thing was too much. That I couldn’t possibly imagine really looking forward to anything again. I was so overwhelmed. 

Not good.

This was at the end of 2022. 2023 was a year of climbing out of this state and into myself. Like really truly dropping the weight of expectations, the corporate conditioning, the incredible load of my own driving force to be the best, of needing to show the world I am woman and I am no different because I am a mother!! I am making it, see!!! How exhausting.

So I spent a year battling myself, trying to be kinder, resting, tuning into my body (she had things to say when I finally tuned in let me tell you!) and working out who I was and what I wanted to be.

Just some small things then! 

Oh also, I found joy, and space and delight in the small things and a deep appreciation for my life and much more enjoyment in my job. Also, the very inconvenient discovery that I had to leave it and be brave enough to do my own thing.

This was all a lonely pursuit. I thought I might be going mad and that I was going to wake up one day and think, oh Mollie what have you done. I didn’t know who to talk to about all this. I was desperate for a community and roles models and I couldn’t really find either.

So I’m building the thing I was missing! Starting with this program. And I couldn’t be more excited about it.

As for you, who are you? You absolutely don’t have to be a parent. This isn’t just about surviving parenthood – although you might be seeking ‘recovery’ for that reason. You don’t have to be a womad, although ladies I have many things to say about the weight we put on our own shoulders. You don’t have to be a lawyer, but I totally understand why you might have arrived here if you are.

It is about wanting to thrive and feel good, wherever you are at.

Chances are, you are a high performer in a high performing industry and you are tired. Life perhaps feels too busy or like it is going too fast. This is certainly how I felt!

You might be wanting to leave or change your job or wanting to thrive in the corporate world without burning out. You might be wanting to explore how to get ahead (whatever that means) in a sustainable way.

You might just want to find a community of people questioning the corporate status quo.

The unifying thread is a desire to feel better and do things differently.

 If any of this resonates, then this program is for you.

To begin, to continue, to dream of starting – wherever you are at (I promise it is further along that you think), consider this a warm, open-hearted place to say “I want something to change!” and for everyone to just get it and support you in whatever this looks like.

If this lights a little fire in your belly, well I think you need to join this course.