From Corporate Burnout to Building Two HR Brands: One Mum's Leap into Entrepreneurship

Ella Halliday spent 15 years in corporate HR watching organisations spend a fortune on ping pong tables and pizza Fridays, while the people inside them had no psychological safety, no trust, and no real culture to speak of. So she left… with nothing to go on to. At the same time she was dealing with a separation, three children under six, a mortgage and no income. Yet this decision would pave the way for her future success. Wanting to truly make a difference, she started her own HR business, gave herself six months and threw everything at it, and somewhere along the way she started a second brand, for a sector she'd watched give everything for almost nothing in return. That second brand, Childcare HR, exists because Ella genuinely cares. About the people who shaped her children's earliest years, but who are chronically underpaid and undervalued. About small providers trying to do right by their staff with no support and no roadmap. And about working mothers who are still quietly written off in interview rooms before they've said a word. This is a conversation about what it actually takes to back yourself and make something happen when you have no other option. About building something with purpose rather than just ambition. And about why the things most worth fighting for are usually the ones everyone else has already walked past. Ella is funny, direct, and completely without pretence. By the end of this conversation, you'll want to go and do the thing you've been talking yourself out of. Connect with Ella directly - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-halliday Learn more about Six HR - http://www.six-hr.com Learn more about Childcare HR - https://www.childcarehr.co.uk Learn more about Pregnant Then Screwed - https://pregnantthenscrewed.com