This event is organised by MPLS and MSD Divisions.
21 January 2019, 1-2pm
Chemistry Research Laboratory, Wolfson Seminar Room, 12 Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TA
Join us for an engaging conversation with Gifty Enright, author of Octopus on a Treadmill, to talk about how to maintain balance while juggling work and life demands, and not losing yourself – particularly as working parents.
Gifty Enright, a successful working mother of two, found herself at a Harley Street clinic. She’d presented the doctor with her spreadsheet of 14 ‘women’s’ symptoms and was promptly offered hormone replacement therapy and a hysterectomy. But, rather than swallow the diagnosis along with the pills and surgery, Gifty had an epiphany; it was her lifestyle rather than her biology that was causing the imbalance in her hormones and her ability to live her best life.
For years, like so many other women of her generation who had been told they could ‘have it all’, Gifty had been racing like an Octopus on a Treadmill from dawn till dusk juggling family, career and the endless demands of modern life, to the detriment of her health.
Gifty was born in Kumasi, Ghana and has lived in Hertfordshire for the past 30 years. Alongside her work as an author, she provides consulting services to multinational companies on major transformation programmes. She is also the Managing Director of a sports events company.
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