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Career ReturnersReturning to work after a multi-year career break is daunting. Be inspired by the successful returners who share their stories and hear about the ups-and-downs of their journey back to a fulfilling career. Author: Career Returners
Is it possible to return to a fulfilling, challenging, successful career after a long career break? After listening to these stories we want your answer to be a resounding yes! On our Career Returners podcast, youll hear from a diverse range of people who are successfully back at work after taking long career breaks for childcare, eldercare, health or other reasons. Theyre sharing the ups-and-downs of their return-to-work journeys the challenges, the rewards and the learnings. After each story, well chat over some of the key themes that emerged and share some of our top return to work tips. The Career Returners podcast is brought to you by Career Returners, the return to work specialists. We work with employers and career returners to enable professionals to return to satisfying and fulfilling work after career breaks of 2, 5 or 15 years. Over the years weve coached thousands of career returners, and were excited now to share some of their inspirational stories with you. After listening to this episode, do head along to careerreturners.com where youll find lots of advice, over 100 success stories, and a range of return to work opportunities for people on career break wanting to get back to work. While you're there, do sign up to our free Network and also our Facebook group for extra support and connection. Website: careerreturners.com Facebook: facebook.com/careerreturnersnetwork/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/careerreturners/ X: https://x.com/careerreturners Language: en Genres: Business, Careers, Kids & Family, Parenting Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Return Journey – How to get back to work and thrive after a career break with Julianne Miles
Episode 5
Tuesday, 11 November, 2025
“Value your career break. Recognise how the time that you have had on career break has helped you to grow as a person in terms of your skills, in terms of your experiences, in terms of your perspective, in terms of your resilience. And recognise the value that that means you can bring to a new employer..”In this special podcast episode, we speak to Co-Founder, ex CEO, and now Executive Chair of Career Returners, Julianne Miles MBE.Julianne is a leading global expert in returning to work, a Chartered Psychologist, and a successful returner herself. Over the last two decades, she has developed deep expertise in supporting returning professionals back to fulfilling work – and now she’s written the book on it!‘Return Journey: How to get back to work and thrive after a career break’ is the essential handbook for returners. It’s a practical, psychology‑backed roadmap for professionals returning to work after a career break and provides step-by-step advice across the whole return to work journey from Starting Out, to Finding Work That Works, and then Thriving Back at Work.In this conversation, we explore Julianne’s story, why she wrote the book, and her top tips for navigating the different return to work stages.“For me, that's the power of the book… helping people to understand some of the barriers in their heads to getting back to work and how to tackle those, alongside the very real practical barriers. So you have this whole toolkit that can take you along that journey from very first thinking about getting back to work, to finding the type of work that works for you at this time of your life, right through to surviving the return to work rollercoaster of those early months back at work, and finally to really thriving.”For more advice and guidance along the route back to work, sign up to our free or pay if you can Career Returners Professional Community at community.careerreturners.com to access a wealth of free resources, attend live expert speaker webinars and connect with other like-minded returning professionals.Return Journey is available now in paperback, audiobook (read by Julianne) and e-book format, at all major retailers, including:Amazon UKAmazon IrelandAmazon GermanyApple BooksAudible













