My Career Crisis

You can't underestimate peer pressure from family and friends when you are making choices about your early career. Sue helps 24 yr old pensions administrator Amanda find an alternative narrative around her life to help her feel more confident about the series of choices she has made and worry less about what other people think of her life choices.

How to manage a business crisis. Sophie returns from Season 1 when newly pregnant she was terrified about telling her business partner she was expecting a baby. They ran a successful business, a bar in south London. A real passion project which they are both utterly committed to. Sophie was dreading exploding everything they'd built up together with her news. A year later she's back and we find out how her partner took the news and meet Baby Golda. Only now trouble has hit the business big time and Sophie's whole livelihood is in jeopardy, Sue shares her thoughts on how to crisis manage the business and Sophie's career.

It’s a new year and time to look afresh at our working lives. Can we be happier at work? Is it possible to turn the Monday morning blues to Monday morning hi fives? Caroline says she has never been happy in any of her jobs as an accountant and is a loss at what to do. We also hear from Richard Boston, a psychologist who specialises in team performance and leadership. He gives Caroline (and presenter Ruth) some advice about how to be more positive at work, how to fix difficult relationships with your boss and take back control of your day to day happiness.