In Part 2 of her conversation with Jackie Porter, Brooke Gordon explores what happens when serious illness interrupts work, identity and the expectations placed on high-achieving women.

This conversation moves beyond the experience of illness to examine workplace leadership, disability benefits, critical illness insurance, returning to work and the pressure women often feel to keep carrying everything.

Brooke shares how her workplace benefits worked in practice, why understanding the details of income protection matters, and how an incomplete critical illness insurance application became an important lesson.

She also reflects on the professional habit of doing everything yourself—and how repeated self-sacrifice can become an expectation others place on you.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What leaders can do when an employee faces a serious illness
• Why returning to work after a health crisis can be complicated
• What disability benefits may—and may not—replace
• The importance of reviewing employer benefits before you need them
• Insurance considerations for business owners
• Why high-achieving women may struggle to delegate or receive support
• The difference between strength and performing strength
• Redefining success around what is meaningful and important

For high-earning women, financial confidence involves understanding your financial protection, but it also means considering whether your work and responsibilities leave room for the unexpected.

Listen, reflect and share this episode with a woman who may need the conversation.

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