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Thinking Ahead: Real Stories

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Navigating Fertility Treatment at Work: How to Protect Your Career and Wellbeing While Trying for a Baby
Navigating Fertility Treatment at Work: How to Protect Your Career and Wellbeing While Trying for a Baby

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Pregnancy and Career: How Motherhood Boosted My Professional Growth
Pregnancy and Career: How Motherhood Boosted My Professional Growth

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My Journey to Motherhood Through Egg Donation: What I Learned About Fertility and Family
My Journey to Motherhood Through Egg Donation: What I Learned About Fertility and Family

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How Parenthood Impacts Millennial Women’s Careers and Earnings – A Guide to Planning for Career and Family
How Parenthood Impacts Millennial Women’s Careers and Earnings – A Guide to Planning for Career and Family
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Navigating Fertility Treatment at Work: How to Protect Your Career and Wellbeing While Trying for a Baby
Trying for a baby is an intimate topic and one that doesn’t usually hold a place in work conversations. But what about..
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Pregnancy and Career: How Motherhood Boosted My Professional Growth
I feared motherhood would end my career, but it made me stronger. Discover how pregnancy helped me grow in confidence,..
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The Journey to Receiving my Twins by Egg Donation
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My Journey to Motherhood Through Egg Donation: What I Learned About Fertility and Family
Becoming a parent is often not the simple and straightforward process that many individuals hope and expect it to be...
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Concerned About How Parenthood Could Impact Your Career?
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How Parenthood Impacts Millennial Women’s Careers and Earnings – A Guide to Planning for Career and Family
If you are working and have plans to have children one day, you have probably already looked around your organisation..
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The Quiet Revolution in Fatherhood: How Shared Parenting Is Redefining Work, Family, and Gender Roles
Explore the quiet fatherhood revolution: how shared parenting strengthens families, boosts moms’ earnings, supports..
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Why I Took Four Months of Paternity Leave – And Why Every Dad Should Have the Same Opportunity
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Why UK Dads Deserve Better Paternity Leave And How Equal Parenting Benefits Everyone
Discover why UK dads deserve better paternity leave. Learn how equal paid leave supports families, closes the gender..
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What I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Solo Parent: Real Challenges, Lessons, and Support Tips
Discover the real challenges, lessons, and workplace insights from one mum’s journey to becoming a solo parent, by..
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How Women Can Overcome Financial Challenges and Achieve Financial Empowerment: Expert Tips from a Financial Coach and Money Mentor
Learn from financial coach Alina Burlacu how women can overcome money challenges, plan for parenthood, and build..
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Real Stories: Becoming a first-time parent to twins
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we provide a snapshot into the personal lives of working parents in the..
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Key Conversations to Have With Your Partner Before Becoming Parents
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Co-Parenting: Key Conversations to Have With Your Partner
Studies show that advanced economies today have more families with both parents working than ever before.  Dual-career..
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What You Should Know Before Having a Family - a Dad's perspective
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Surrogacy
Jim Ford, a Law Firm Partner, tells his story and gives his advice to others thinking about surrogacy. He also shares..
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Advice If You’re Thinking About IVF, Adoption or Surrogacy
Whether through choice or circumstance, more people than ever before are starting a family through IVF, surrogacy or..
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Managing Your Career as a Dual-Career Couple
Pedro Martins, Chief Growth Officer at Total Media, talks to Geraldine, founder and CEO of ECC, on how he and his wife,..
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Real Stories: Dads & Working From Home
Welcome to our series of ‘Real Stories’ where we’re fortunate to have a snapshot into the personal lives of working..
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Parents Questionnaire
At ECC we’re proud to have worked with thousands of parents over the years. We’ve seen the importance of having good..
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