She Left Investment Banking After Missing Out on Maternity Bonus Then She Built a Business Around It

Sara Dalrymple on leaving investment banking, building a business that teaches women to advocate for themselves, and turning a frustrating experience into a mission. Sara Dalrymple has spent more than 20 years in sales, from a career in banking to building businesses of her own. Today she's a speaker, mentor and the award winning author of More Sales Please, helping women get better at selling their work, their ideas and themselves. Like so many women, when Sara had a child, her working life changed forever. She'd done what ambitious women are told to do. Worked hard. Hit the targets. Got onto the leadership programmes. Kept her head down and assumed the results would speak for themselves. Then something happened that made her seriously question that entire playbook . In this conversation, we get into why one conversation changed the trajectory of her life, what Sara has learned about effort and self-advocacy, and why women must never wait for somebody else to notice how brilliant they are. Sara Dalrymple, Speaker, Author & Business Mentor Sara Dalrymple is a speaker, mentor and award winning author of More Sales Please. With a background in economics and over 20 years of sales experience, from solo founders to multi-billion pound companies, she teaches women the positioning and sales skills that school never did. Her belief: sales skills create income, income creates choice, and choice creates more well-resourced women. She helps female founders sell without sleaze in just 30 minutes a day. In this episode Timestamps approximate, from the transcript, confirm against the final edit. 00:12: Who Sara is now, in a season of spaciousness she's spent years learning to protect 02:31: Starting her first business as a wedding photographer, while technically on maternity leave from investment banking 09:30: Realising she'd accidentally recreated the same overwork she'd left corporate to escape 19:19: Called back from maternity leave to be told there was nothing in the pot for her 25:12: The rage she felt afterwards, and what was actually underneath it 32:03: Why doing a good job was never going to be enough on its own 46:39: What spaciousness actually looks like week to week, and why it's her most important business tool 1:02:10: Her advice to her younger self, and to another female founder with big ambitions Mentioned in this episode More Sales Please, Sara's award-winning book https://amzn.eu/d/09R4gbkx Sales With Sara, Sara's coaching and mentoring work with female founders Connect with Sara Website: saradalrymple.co.uk https://www.saradalrymple.co.uk/ Instagram: @saleswithsara   / saleswithsara   Connect with Nonie Take the Leadership Identity Quiz: https://noniewhite.com/leadership-ide... Find out more about the Unshakeable Method, Nonie's four-month 1:1 coaching programme: https://noniewhite.com/becoming-unsha...