Jul 8, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 13 segments
Can women actually thrive at work through their "sandwich years," juggling kids, ageing parents and a career, or is "having it all" really just code for doing everything and being thanked for none of…
Jamila RizviGuest
Jasmin BedirHost
Jen DobbieHost
Carly PelhamHost
What's on yours? [upbeat music] I think this episode needs to start with a clarification, because today's topic is a really, really huge one, and we can't cover that all off in one conversation.
Can women survive and even thrive in the workplace during their middle years while they manage the bin fire [laughs] of their home lives and the world right now? Can we still nail it, or does having it all belong on the fuck it list? Our guest is Jamila Rizvi, uh, deputy MD of Future Women, bestselling author, and one of Australia's sharpest voices on gender equity.
Jamila takes a very different view from the one in most of our internal monologues.
She has spent years calling out the systems that fail women when life changes, rather than blaming us for our own exits from paid work.
What's refreshing is she's not asking women to lean in harder, she's asking workplaces to change.
Let's find out if we can have it all by making work fit for women's lives and not the other way around.
What's on yours? [upbeat music] I think this episode needs to start with a clarification, because today's topic is a really, really huge one, and we can't cover that all off in one conversation.
Can women survive and even thrive in the workplace during their middle years while they manage the bin fire [laughs] of their home lives and the world right now? Can we still nail it, or does having it all belong on the fuck it list? Our guest is Jamila Rizvi, uh, deputy MD of Future Women, bestselling author, and one of Australia's sharpest voices on gender equity.
Jamila takes a very different view from the one in most of our internal monologues.
She has spent years calling out the systems that fail women when life changes, rather than blaming us for our own exits from paid work.
What's refreshing is she's not asking women to lean in harder, she's asking workplaces to change.
Let's find out if we can have it all by making work fit for women's lives and not the other way around.
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