
You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women

If you’re going through an incredibly blissful, prosperous, healthy phase, at some point this will change. If times are stressful, rubbish or dull, this will change too. Sometimes change is scary, but often it’s welcome.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
Real personal success will never solely be a destination. It will always include the journey towards an end goal.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
And attention is currency. It’s valuable.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
If it’s not authentic to you, don’t chase after it.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
Later, discovering the intuitive eating methodology taught by Marc David from The Institute for the Psychology of Eating in the U.S. helped me to take another big leap forward. I read his books The Slow Down Diet: Eating for pleasure, energy, and weight loss and Nourishing Wisdom: A mind-body approach to nutrition and well-being, completed his eigh
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Cultivate two things equally – structure and flexibility.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
Over the past couple of years my dad and sister have been battling cancer and my mum has had two strokes. This also made them more vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic. Spending time with them and helping to look after them, plus coming to terms with the idea of losing them, has been a real challenge emotionally, especially as we live in diff
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In the PR and comms industry in Australia, for example, this includes media publications and websites such as AdNews, B&T, Mediaweek, Mi3 and Mumbrella, and the business, media or communications sections of newspapers such as the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Guardian.
Bec Brown • You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women
Try to predominantly showcase your own work. I know it’s great to showcase others’ work from time to time to show that you have been influenced by and/or support them, but a client usually wants to receive the kind of work that they see on your socials. So make that work yours.