The career podcast for women giving group whatsapp vibes. For women who want to learn strategies to take them to the next level their career - and also to have a bit of a laugh along the way.
Bec and Annie share a passion for women, and an interest in self development. However, they’ve both had really different careers and learned different things along the way.
Bec’s a corporate machine, and Annie’s a startup queen. In the career coven they share and compare experiences - learning from each other along the way. Expect topics like confidence, managing up and boundaries to be discussed (usually over a glass of wine).
In the final episode of season 3, Annie and Bec discuss how to approach your first 30 days in a new role. This obviously differs from place to place, and organisation to organisation. Bec gives great tips from the perspective of starting in a larger organisation, whilst Annie gives her best advice having more recently started a new role.
Tune into this episode if you want to hear about;
* Getting the basics of an organisation down - org chart, financials, strategy decks
* Ideas on how to introduce yourself
* Different ways to get to know new colleagues, and build trust
* Mapping relationships within an organisation, and the different stakeholders
* How to go about understanding your initial priorities, and setting your first goals
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Recommendations from this episode:
* McKinsey Report on Onboarding [https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/onboarding-new-leaders-boost-performance]
* Michael Watkins: "The First 90 Days"
* Joanna Lipman and Erika Andersen: Highlight learning agility and asking great questions
19 Feb 2026
S3, E9 The Career Coven: Charting a Course for the C-suite with Tiny Kennedy
In this episode Annie interview's Tina Kennedy, a former colleague and general all around legend to anyone who has had the true pleasure of working alongside her. Tina has recently started a new role as the Chief Customer Officer at the Ordnance Survey. Prior to that, she led the product and commercial teams at SimplyHealth which is one of the UK's leading health insurers. She's held quite the number of senior corporate roles, giving her a lot of wisdom to share.
Tina has an incredible perspective on work, life and balance and this episode touches upon all of that. Annie and Tina also discuss how:
* Tina has approached building her career
* Lessons on progression in different environments
* How Tina prepared to start her new role
* What lessons Tina has to share on working with a family (note, be present).
We're so grateful to have had Tina as a guest on the podcast, and we hope you find this chat as inspiring as we did.
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Follow Tina here. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-kennedy-9aba51/]
6 Feb 2026
S3, E8 The Career Coven: The (Non-Fiction) Books That Changed Our Lives
This week's episode of the Career Coven is on the non-fiction books that changed our lives. Bec and Annie have a really fun time discussing the books which have had the most impact on them, particularly professionally, as well as going through some incredible listener recommendations. If you're looking for a reading list to get you through the year, this episode will give it to you.
Our top 5 recommendations:
* Al Ramadan & Dave Peterson - Play Bigger
* Edith Eger - The Gift
* Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
* Lucy Jones - Matrescence
* Glennon Doyle - Untamed
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The long list of listener recommendations, and our other recommendations:
* Emily Wapnick - How to be Everything
* Bill Gates - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
* Jack London - White Fang
* John Steinbeck - East of Eden
* Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
* Amir Levine & Rachel Heller - Attached
* Sharon Blackie - If Women Rose Rooted
* Herminia Ibarra - Working identity
* Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott - The 100 Year Life
* Margaret Heffernan - Wilful Blindness
* Julia Samuel - This Too Shall Pass
* Brene Brown - The Gifts Of Imperfection
* Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning
* Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
* Ekhart Tolle - The Power of Now
* Michelle Obama - Becoming
* Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror
* Matt Mochary - The Great CEO Within
* Mary Ann Sieghart - The Authority Gap
* Naomi Alderman - The Power
* Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race
* Emma Reed Turrell - Please Yourself
Interested in that weird thing where you read at speaking speed we were talking about? It's called subvocalisation and you can read more about it here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization]
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