{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fperspectives-with-sharon-pearson-cd08217f.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F75863e5a-y8dFO0_j","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Your Time Starts … Now with Kate Christie #Perspectives With Sharon Pearson Season 2 Episode 14","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a0db931b-7fbe-4b15-9484-011dc7220977/0b4dfb24-3718-44ce-9ace-245cd2152881/1.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"In her thirties, high-flying corporate lawyer Kate Christie found herself with three children under three, a barrister husband who took just two days ever off work when the kids were sick, and conflicting feelings about her personal and professional priorities: “It would be easy for me to say ‘my bloody ex-husband never helped out’ but that’s not quite true. I was the one who wanted to stay home when the kids were sick.”\r\nNow 50, Kate is a single mum to three teenagers, has given up law (“I hated it”) to run her own successful business and is an author of four books for professional women and executives looking to overhaul chaotic lives. Her latest, Me First: The Guilt-free Guide to Prioritising You, has attracted interest in the US with its promise that you don’t have to do it all to have it all. In Perspectives episode ‘Your Time Starts … Now’ Kate discusses with Sharon Pearson the modern pressures that caused her marriage to crumble and the strategies she’s taught to businesses including L’Oreal, Westpac, Deloitte and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to find 30 extra hours a month as ‘me’ time. “I turned 50 this year and it is a very reflective time and it’s about saying, ‘Don’t compromise too much, this is ‘me first’. I have the confidence now. If you’re 20 or 30 or 40, I want women to have that level of confidence I have now.” She says. “Regardless of what age you are, don’t always put everyone first, put yourself first, be the best person you can be and live this amazing life right now.”\r\n"}