Carina O’Brien

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1,722 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Carina O’Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Working Mumma · You're Not Less Ambitious. The World Around You Just Hasn't Caught Up Yet With Kat Francis · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

So we're recording this just the Monday before Easter. matched

So fingers crossed for good weather. matched

Always a topic of conversation here in Melbourne. matched

So Kat, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself and your career journey so far? matched

Did you want to just take us back to that moment when you were the MD of a company and you were realizing no I don't want to take ownership of matched

What made you actually go, no, this is it? matched

Why do you think your values changed to actually then have this career pivot? matched

So it was all quite, was it over a period of weeks and months that you decided this and went through that journey or it was just like, right, this isn't what I want, here's my resignation? matched

And how much of that decision was impacted by being a mother? matched

And so Kat, the reason also I wanted to talk to you today on the podcast is because you did a LinkedIn post about ambitions after you become a mum. matched

Because there's often a lot of mental models, a lot of opinions on if matched

women are more or less ambitions, you know, after they become a mum. matched

And I know that it stuck a nerve. matched

Like it absolutely went gangbusters. matched

I think you had over a thousand likes and things like that. matched

It was absolutely huge. matched

Why do you think that this actually struck such a nerve with people? matched

But also, why do you think there's always this, I guess, opinion and this social narrative that people think that women are less ambitious once they become a mum? matched

But probably, in fact, they're actually not, but it's just in a different way. matched

And so what can we do in those situations that we've got all this really – matched

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