#95 - From Burnout to PhD: Solving Yourself as an Ambitious Mother - Giselle Goodwin

Giselle spent 25 years co-founding, growing, and selling three businesses while raising two daughters. Then, she hit a point where something had to change so she returned to university in her 40s and completed a PhD on women, work, and well-being.But instead of just researching the problem, she used it to solve something in herself - and created a roadmap for other women in the process.In this episode, we discuss:→ Building and walking away - why she exited three successful businesses she'd built→ The honest answer to "can women really have it all?" - after living it and researching it→ Setting boundaries as a woman and mother - why this isn't selfish, it's survival→ Preparing for empty nest - what comes next when her daughters (now 15 and 17) leave homeGiselle didn't just study work-life balance. She lived it, broke under it, then rebuilt differently.:Not many women go back to university in their 40s to study the exact problem they're living. Giselle did. And what she found will change how you see ambition and motherhood.