On Questioning Assumptions and Designing Her Best Life Amidst Big Changes with Anna Breimer | Ep2

“...I was at some point in time presenting to the board of really big companies in Asia, and two weeks later I was sitting with a newborn screaming and crying and I didn't know how to breastfeed..” 

Anna Joke Breimer Bharati, originally hailing from the Netherlands, has called Singapore her home for over a decade. She is mother of three (under five years old!), and has embarked on a remarkable journey, transitioning from her role as a junior partner at McKinsey & Company to becoming the driving force behind her successful leadership development company, The Breimer Group.

In today’s candid and thought-provoking conversation, Anna opens up on:

🌟Why she decided to stop "swimming upstream” in the corporate world to "swim in her own pool”

🌟The ups and downs of navigating first time parenthood for her and her American husband in a ‘third culture” from hers and her spouse

🌟Going through postnatal depression and the transformative turning point for her

🌟The societal pressures and assumptions of a "good" mother and spouse, and how she broke free from these constraints

🌟Strategies and advice on how both she and her husband, also an entrepreneur, create opportunities to be their best selves

Check out our latest episode “On Questioning Assumptions and Designing Her Best Life Amidst Big Changes with Anna Breimer” for some raw honesty, vulnerability, and humour as we uncover insights and challenges to conventional norms about working mothers.

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👋Instagram https://www.instagram.com/itsannapreneur/

👋LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-joke-breimer-bharati/

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Chapters

(00:00) Make It Work Introduction

(00:12) Episode & Guest Introduction

(00:50) Hello Anna

(01:50) Day In a Life

(03:31) Transitioning from Consulting to Self-Employment 

(06:06) Why "Career Downshifting" Is Triggering

(10:01) Being A Foreigner: Embracing a Different Model of Parenting and Even Starting A Business

(12:29) Getting Through Post Partum Depression

(13:55) Embracing The Trauma Of Being A New Mum

(15:51) Learning True Partnership With My Spouse  

(21:49) Outro

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