Let’s make it work baby – the fabulous Catherine Brooks Catherine Brooks is a Principal of Moores (a Melbourne law firm), workplace relations and child safety expert and author of the new book Let’s Make it Work Baby: A Kick-Arse Guide to Personal and Professional Success for New Parents. It was an absolute delight catching up with Catherine to chew the fat on flexibility and to chat about her new book. We know you will gain some great tips from this conversation, and you can also purchase the book via Amazon on <a href= "https://www.amazon.com.au/Lets-make-work-baby-professional-ebook/dp/B07DHWRPMX"> https://www.amazon.com.au/Lets-make-work-baby-professional-ebook/dp/B07DHWRPMX</a> or leave a review of this podcast and be in the running for a give-away of the hard copy version (listen to the podcast for inspiration and instructions)! For more tips, you can also follow Catherine on Instagram @letsmakeitworkbaby

The Tracksuit Economy - Emma Heuston

Helen Butler and Leonie Green could see a pattern emerging.  Over great food and a glass of wine (or two) the same conversation kept coming up... it went along the lines of …

How lucky are we to be doing work we love, in a flexible way that works for us and our families?  We should be celebrating this fact, but instead, as we look around, we see workplaces that are not adopting flexible approaches fast enough and people crying out for flexibility and not being heard – or oftentimes not crying out at all for fear of the consequences and living with constant frustration or quietly existing and desperately trying to find an alternative.

Helen and Leonie decided that rather than pour another wine (well, actually as well as pouring another wine), they would go out and see what could be done about this state of affairs.