Ep 35 - Rise Up Founder - Susan Dwyer

What's the link between entrepreneurship and fulfilling own professional needs?How can we look after ourselves and create something of value at the same time?How important is taking time out to help us figure out what we want?These are questions that Rise Up Founder Susan Dwyer and I explore on this week's episode, as well as chatting with Dad in our regular post-interview reflection. Rise Up is a leading career destination for women in Ireland. They focus on supporting underrepresented female talent to rise up and avail of new career growth opportunities. Their mission is to narrow the gender leadership gap and advance more women in their careers.Susan shares her own career journey, going travelling in Latin America solo after a successful period in recruitment and how that led her to found Rise Up, when she was looking for a forum to find female career mentors and she couldn't find any. I love stories where people create something out of a need that they wanted themselves. We talk about burnout, authentic leadership and the similarity of women's groups and the men's groups I'm involved in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.