Sam moved to Paris at eighteen with no real plan, working as a nanny. It was translating french billboard ads that accidentally gave her the itch for advertising. She built a twenty-five year career across some of the biggest media and advertising networks in the world, starting in the media department floor in London through to seventeen years at one group across four different agencies and roles. She eventually becoming the first woman to ever hold a Chief Strategy Officer title in that business's history.
In this episode, we get into the stuff no one really says out loud: how to work out what you're actually worth to a business's bottom line, how to build the case when the answer to a pay rise or promotion is \"not now,\" and the messy, human cost of a promised job that disappeared the moment she got pregnant.