When I grow up I want to be. The career podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2, and we're kicking things off with a truly inspiring guest!

Join your host, Lynsey Hyslop, as she dives into the incredible career journey of Amanda Bronkhorst, CEO and Founder of Just One Tree.

Amanda spent 20 years as a freelance producer in TV commercial production before founding a global reforestation non-profit that has now planted over 4 million trees worldwide. Recognised by the United Nations as part of the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, Amanda shares how she’s on a mission to change the world—one tree at a time—and it all began with a simple cup of tea.

You can connect with your host on LinkedIn here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn You can find out more about Amanda and Just One Tree here JUST ONE Tree - £1 plants 1 Tree. Combat Climate Change through reforestation.

You can find out more about Just One Tree day and the education and resources available to schools here Schools Sustainability - get involved / JUST ONE Tree - JUST ONE Tree If you're curious about a career change or you just want to read key insights from inspiring women, then download my free resource here 5 career change insights (whenigrowup-career.com)

In this week's episode, join Lynsey as she sits down with Trademark Attorney Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy.   Rachel shares her journey from aspiring ballerina during homeschooling days to her current role as a Partner at Baker McKenzie. Through insightful conversation, she provides a glimpse into the diverse responsibilities of a Trademark Attorney, from courtroom representation for brands to witnessing the fruition of her work in marketing campaigns.   Tune in to hear Rachel's passion and enthusiasm for her profession as she sheds light on the dynamic world of trademark law and brand protection. You can find out more about your host here: http://linkedin.com/in/lynsey-hyslop You can find out more about Rachel and Baker McKenzie here: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/w/wilkinsonduffy-rachel

What job could you do if you enjoy working outdoors, you want to educate all ages about their part in habitat conservation as well as having the requirement of being able to use a chainsaw to maintain the countryside (sensibly, with a licence I might add!). In this week’s episode Lynsey learns all about the varied role of a Countryside Ranger from Jean Cheadle who has been in her role for 20 years. Jean explains how her career journey started with her studying visual art and geography at university, mainly to avoid making the decision of what career she wanted to go in to, however, this was in fact the first step to her longstanding love for the countryside. It was the door that opened her up to some valuable volunteering opportunities and to a job where she can have a tangible positive impact in protecting the natural world around her.

You can connect with your host Lynsey Hyslop here https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynsey-hyslop/

Some people may be more familiar with this role being referred to as 'Ground Staff' and with the industry being reportedly made up by only 2% of women, some may refer to it with the job title of 'Groundsman', however in conversation with Lynsey, Meg Lay explains how she wants to use her role as Sports Turf Professional at Gloucestershire County Cricket Club to help ignite some interest in the industry by other women. Meg doesn't do things by half either, as one way to promote the role and raise the awareness of it as a career choice was when she, early this year, made history by spearheading an all female ground staff team to become the first female to curate an international wicket. How this came about and what was involved was a highlight of the episode for your host Lynsey.

Meg talks about how being part of a team, spending your days outside doing a physical job, having the opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the best athletes in the sport are just some of the many positives of the job. Meg talks with passion about her job and the industry and how the fire in her belly turned out to be from working in Cricket, not as a firefighter which she initially considered as a career choice.

You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn You can connect with Meg Lay here Meg Lay | LinkedIn You can find more information about the industry here

Grounds Management Association (thegma.org.uk)

Have you ever wondered how you can become a qualified Pilot and work for a global airline flying all around the world and get to call that your job? In this episode, Lynsey has a open and honest conversation with Laura Azancot who does just that. After starting her academic career in psychology at University where she initially wanted to train as a Clinical Psychologist, Laura talks about how after not quite getting the grades needed to be accepted on to a Masters she decided she wanted to travel the world and so became cabin crew which was the first step in to her flying career and love of aviation. Fast forward a couple of years (and a lot of training and tears!) Laura became a qualified Pilot, went back to being cabin crew after the credit crunch, piloted private jets in Africa for 4 years to then become a Pilot for British Airways...yes, a really interesting career journey.

Laura gives a genuine account of her time as a Cadet training to become a pilot as well as the hard decisions she has had to make during her career to enable her to do the job she loves whilst also having a family, all of this she has done without ever even being interested in aviation until she was in her 20's!

You can find out more about careers in aviation here Careers at Civil Aviation Authority (caa.co.uk) You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn

Lynsey was treated to an in depth exploration of Floss Andrews' career which spans 20 years in Football working for the likes of The Premier League at clubs such as Chelsea, QPR and Norwich. Although the thrill and excitement of being pitch side at every home game in her role of Match Manager or the variety of work she experienced when working with huge brands such as Barclays, Nike, Budweiser and Lucozade Sport in her commercial partnership and sponsorship roles were hard ones to give up, Floss gives a great insight in to her career journey and her career choices along the way.

You will hear clear explanations of Floss's career choices, descriptions of the skills and experience that she learned along the way and you will find out how the connections she created with each and every role that she had enabled her to have the courage to retrain as a Mindset Coach and start her own business, specialising in football, with the little help of a Life Coach.

Floss now works with people in a range of roles within the football industry helping them create balance to help extend their time in football by avoiding burnout.

You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn You can connect with Floss Andrews on LinkedIn here and you can contact her via her website here Floss (Flora) Andrews | LinkedIn

Mindset Five | Personal Coaching with Flora Andrews

Kirsty qualified as a Solicitor 14 years ago and is now a Principal Associate and Solicitor specialising in Real Estate at Shoosmiths - a leading national law firm. In this episode Lynsey has a really honest conversation with Kirsty about the competitive nature of gaining a place on a training contract, how work experience is vital when trying to get in to Law and that by being nice to colleagues, clients and work acquaintances, can lead to job opportunities. As a fellow working Mum, Lynsey talks to Kirsty about how she has managed her career and her career progression around her family and how balance is not only a priority of hers, but of the firm that she works for too. You can connect with the host Lynsey Hyslop here; Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn And you can learn more about Shoosmiths and connect with Kirsty Day here Kirsty Day | LinkedIn Kirsty Day | People | Shoosmiths Lawyers

Not everyone associates sport, physical education and wellbeing as being a job that they could do in a prison, but Charlotte does just that as a Physical Education Instructor, or PEI for short, in a male prison. Lynsey has a good conversation with Charlotte about how she has autonomy over her role to react to interests or needs of prisoners and staff to create courses, classes and initiatives to help support mental and physical wellbeing, whilst always being mindful that she may be needed to react to an incident at a moments notice within a potentially hugely hostile environment. Charlotte gets to participate in sport and physical activity as part of her day to day job as well as racking up the qualifications she holds that can add to her experience as her career progresses - either within or outside of the prison service. Charlotte teaches to an audience that may not be the easiest but if you like a challenge, like Charlotte does, this role may be a good fit for you. You can find out more about the host Lynsey Hyslop here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn

In Tullia's role she represents a range of publishers and publications such as GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue and works with luxury brands to advertise products and campaigns via print and digital media. Tullia has worked with brands such as Burberry, Dior and Stella McCartney and in this episode, she talks to Lynsey about not only how she got to work in the luxury brand sales and advertising industry, but also how she manages business relationships when working with brands on behalf of publishers. Tullia provides some great advice to those interested in this area including how travelling can be a learning tool that assists you throughout your career, and how handwriting Thank You and Christmas cards might just get you a job at Vogue US in the Paris office! Hear how Tullia started an internship at the beginning of her career working under Anna Wintour (AKA Devil wears Prada) and how staying true to your values and morals really can help you in your career. You can connect with the host here Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn You can find out more and connect with Tullia here Tullia Vitturi di Este-Lochra | LinkedIn https://www.tvl-consulting.com

A Corporate Illustrator is a great example of the type of job that this podcast was created for. Lynsey has a great, lengthy conversation with Alana Patchett who is a Director at Purple Monster. Her main role there, since joining in 2010, has been creating animations, online virtual environments, pictures, process maps, doing real time scribing and generally bringing the artistic visual eye to Purple Monster. She helped start and grow the art department of Purple Monster where they use a vast array of creative tools, techniques, skills and experience to ensure a businesses message lands effectively and with impact.

Alana is a visual person who always enjoyed sketching and drawing when she was younger and in this episode, she explains how this has led her to working with international corporate clients sketching meetings and conferences (as well as many other things) bringing their words to life. And to think her art teacher said that she wouldn't get a job within art!

You can connect with the host here

Lynsey Hyslop | LinkedIn

You can find out more about Alana and Purple Monster here

Virtual Monster - Purple Monster