Winging It: Family Women in Business

CJ Liu interviews Emma Issacs, founder of businesschicks.com, a global community of women creating a better workplace for women, and author of “Winging It.”

State of Union for Women // Emma Issacs Part 1 of 3

Emma describes her journey with Business Chicks, which initially started out 15 years ago with 200 women. Now, Business Chicks has over 500,000 women and hosts over 100 events in the UK/Australia. In this interview, Emma shares the state of the union for women. Specifically, how corporations are dealing with many priorities including COVID, Black Lives Matter, and gender equity.

Winging It: How To Balance Work and Family // Emma Issacs Part 2 of 3

CJ Liu interviews Emma Issacs, founder of businesschicks.com and author of “Winging It.” Emma describes how she balances work and family. As a mother of a 2 month and 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 year old children, she describes how she decided to work full time. For her, being a good parent meant having good energy. Working during her prime earning years helped not only accelerate her career, but also was life giving. CJ shares her experience as a mom who worked part-time and how she had to wing it on meeting societal expectations of cleaning, her appearance, and cooking.

Winging It: How To Find Your Dream Job // Emma Isaacs Part 3 of 3

Emma describes how people often misunderstand networking. She views it as an investment in relationships. Emma then shares that if you “need” to network, it can mean that it’s too late to build one. CJ shares her experience about how finding your dream job is less of a straight line and more like a tree with branches. Each branch growing to new areas of interest. In the final part of the interview, Emma talks about how you recover from a failed attempt. What she has learned from the many guests in her show is that it’s about learning how to get up a bit quicker. Failure is part of the design. It’s about being pragmatic versus dramatic during times of challenge.

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Emma Isaacs, founder and global CEO of Business Chicks, is an astonishingly successful entrepreneur. When she was just 18 years old she began her own recruitment business, which she successfully ran for seven years before founding Business Chicks and growing it into Australia’s largest and most influential community for women. Emma is a serial property investor; has raised over $10million for charity; and is mother to five children aged eight and under. You can buy her book here.