Anna Allerton on working smarter through perimenopause

2024-01-31

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My guest this time is Anna Allerton…a former journalist and TV producer who spent 17 years at Sky where she was an industry leader in women’s sports journalism and was listed in Management Today’s ‘35 Under 35’. She’s the founder of Allerton Coaching and is a business coach and consultant specializing in perimenopause. Anna started to experience crippling anxiety at the end of her maternity leave with her second child, at just 38 years old, compounded by horrendous brain fog whilst dealing with sleep deprivation, and a stressful job...

She’s the founder of Allerton Coaching and is a business coach and consultant specializing in perimenopause.

Anna started to experience crippling anxiety at the end of her maternity leave with her second child, at just 38 years old, compounded by horrendous brain fog whilst dealing with sleep deprivation, and a stressful job.

Like so many others, Anna was fobbed off with anti-depressants multiple times, and only her dogged journalistic skills and refusal to take no for an answer led her to an eventual perimenopause diagnosis… Her experiences led her to change career and retrain as an executive coach - listen in to find out more about what an exec coach actually is (and does - or doesn’t do), as well as hearing more about why Anna is passionate about sharing her story to help others who might be dealing with outbursts of rage, raging insomnia, or a whole host of other symptoms, whilst juggling the demands of toddler tantrums, potty-training and weaning feel less alone!

We also cover:

the most common issues that her clients tend to struggle with in the workplace;
some of the practical strategies that Anna has seen work really well to overcome some of these
why she is a huge fan of symptom logging to help us work smarter
what parallels she sees to recent developments in women’s sport that she has applied in her work

You can find Anna at https://www.allertoncoaching.com and on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/allertoncoaching/

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