Life After I Left
Life After I Left
Podcast Description
Welcome to Life After I Left.
A space where women share their real stories, including the struggles, the triumphs, and the moments that created change.
I’m Cat Dunn - an Online Business Manager, mentor, speaker, and your host. Life After I Left exists to break the silence - to give women a platform to speak up, encourage vulnerability, and remind listeners that they’re not alone.
Here you'll find real-life stories, powerful conversations, expert insights, practical tips, and we’ll definitely be having a few laughs as well because you can’t have darkness without the light.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on personal narratives related to overcoming challenges, including health issues, body image, trauma, and resilience. Episodes include powerful conversations with guests like Justine Stockings discussing breast cancer and its impact, and Kobe Clarke-Jacobs navigating chronic illness and redefining success. Key themes also emphasize the importance of self-advocacy, personal empowerment, and community support.
Welcome to Life After I Left.
A podcast about the moments that change us, hosted by Cat Dunn, speaker, mentor, and founder.
This is a community where women share the stories they once thought they had to keep hidden.
Expect vulnerable conversations, practical insights, dark humour, deep reflections, expert advice, and the kind of honesty that makes you sit in your car after an episode finishes.
New stories every Thursday.
Remember: Don’t be silent. Be unstoppable.
What would you do if you were made redundant at 28 weeks pregnant, in the middle of a pandemic?
Sara Reyes is a VA business coach and the founder of Nook Collective, a co-working space on the Sunshine Coast designed for working parents.
In 2020, after 14 years thriving as an EA and PA, Sara was made redundant while pregnant with her first child – and that same afternoon, she emailed her employer to say she wouldn't be coming back and started her own VA business.
Within four weeks she was fully booked, and within 12 months she had doubled her corporate income.
In this episode, we chat about:
- Losing a job, and an identity, at 28 weeks pregnant during COVID
- The messy middle: undercharging, saying yes to every client and battling imposter syndrome
- The skills stay-at-home mums already have, and why you don't need another course to get started
- Letting go of misaligned clients, and why Sara eventually let go of all of them to focus on coaching
- How motherhood completely redefined Sara's version of success
- Nook Collective, community, and why parents shouldn't have to choose between career and family
This episode is a reminder that the hardest season of your life can become the beginning of the life you've been wanting to build.
Sara didn't have it all figured out – no contracts, no insurance, just a decision to back herself. If you've been sitting on an idea and waiting to feel ready, this is your sign to just start.
Connect with Sara:
- Website: https://www.assistbysara.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/assistbysara/
- Nook Collective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nook.collective/
- The Freedom Kickstart Roadmap: https://sara-reyes.mykajabi.com/the-freedom-kickstart-roadmap
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-reyes-ilton-4a8206122/
Connect with Cat:
- Join my mailing list: https://catlouisedunn.myflodesk.com/mailing-list
- Life After I Left Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeafterileftpodcast/
- Cat's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catlouisedunn/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/catlouisedunn
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catlouisedunn
- Website: https://catlouisedunn.com
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-after-i-left/id1815891092
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@catlouisedunn
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❤️ Remember: Don't be silent. Be unstoppable.
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