Ep.18 - Mag Leahy - Finding Your Passion & Future Career

My guest is Mag Leahy, Head of Delivery & Tutor for Leaders Who Coach™, and Associate Certified Coach (ACC), has also had a successful career as a Responsive Angular Web Developer and Team Lead, driving the growth and development of Global brands, startups, and scale-ups. 

Mag and I met through a mutual friend, when we collaborated to create, deliver, and host an online event in 2020 called BC4Leaders - Decoding Leadership for a Changing World. 

On the podcast, Mag shares her experience of navigating through a male-dominated tech industry, how she became a mentor and advocate for fellow female tech professionals and those with ambitions for a career in tech. She is very positive about her experiences, with stories of supportive colleagues, opportunities to share, collaborate, and learn, and she shares what it takes to lead in a very competitive development space. 

As our conversation progresses, Mag shares her significant and life-changing battle with long-Covid, and this part of our conversation is very emotive for so many reasons - Mag shares how she realised that this was a longer-term illness, the journey she went on from a mental health perspective, how is shaped her thinking about her future, and she shares the support and help that has taken her to the very positive stage of her journey so far. 

We close out with Mag's advice for anyone leading through change and how employers can support their employees in a post-pandemic world. 

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