Hello, this is Emma Ganon, and thank you for listening to this podcast. I just wanted to let you know that my new book, The Success Myth, Letting Go of Having It All, is out on May the 18th.

I think it's my best book yet, so I'm excited for it to come out. And the book unpicks the eight success myths from happiness, to money, to productivity, to celebrity, to the idea of finally arriving, and how chasing a version of success that doesn't align with your values can really take you off track.

And this book is about getting back to yourself, breaking free, finding a new way forward, and it's available on May the 18th. If you love this podcast, you'll love the book, and it's available soon from all good bookshops, so you can order yours now. I hope you like it.

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Hello, and welcome back to Control Out Delete. This episode is with Christine Armstrong. She is an author, researcher, and speaker on the future of work.

She is known to blow up the BS around working parenting and dig into the truth about what works and what really doesn't.

You might have read her piece in the Times a while ago that went viral called why working moms are being sold an impossible dream about work life balance and how to set the record straight.

She's such a great voice on this exact topic, the fact that we are sold an impossible dream half the time about having it all, etc.

And the piece was promoting the publication of her brilliant book called The Mother of All Jobs, how to have children and a career and stay sane-ish.

We recorded this episode pre-pandemic in person, and since then Christine has been working tirelessly on a response to the working from home on mass and hybrid working questions, and asking what people really want to happen as the world of work continues to change.

In this episode we got into the nitty gritty of parenting work, why flexible working doesn't always work and the problems with it, and how we can try and get it right maybe in the future.

So I hope you enjoy this replay episode that was recorded a while ago, but I still feel is very relevant.

So thank you so much for coming on.

It's a joy, I'm really happy to be here.

When we first met in a work context, it was the pregnant not screwed panel, and I just loved everything about it because we were all there kind of, you know, just sitting there telling our story and you just came in sat down and you were like, right, I've got some things I need to say.

And I just honestly was in awe of how you own the room at those things.

And I wondered have you always been like that, or is that something that over the years you've kind of got more confident?

I just wondered if you were just like the kid that, you know, was confident to talk.

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