In Powerment - Episode 2 Love Without Loosing Yourself

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Love without losing yourself. That is the question at the heart of Episode 2 of our conversation with Dr Janet Cotton.In Episode 1, Janet introduced In-Powerment: recognising, owning and exercising the power already within us. This time, we sit down with her alone to talk about motherhood, and about her memoir, Love in a Time of COVID.Janet is an engineer, entrepreneur, sailor and Second Dan karateka. She has navigated boardrooms, industrial frontiers across Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. Yet some of her hardest battles happened far from any of those places.Set against the upheaval of COVID and the years that followed, her book is an intimate, often hilarious and sometimes devastating account of love, motherhood, betrayal and courage. At its centre is her relationship with her daughter, Jessie, and a nine-year love story that is neither simply beautiful nor simply terrible.As Jessie grew into a young woman, Janet found herself asking an unsettling question: who am I when I am no longer needed in quite the same way?She tells it with candour and humour, and refuses to cast herself as either victim or heroine. This is not a story about becoming fearless. It is about learning that strength does not always mean holding on, that love need not require self-abandonment, and that taking agency over your life does not mean controlling everything that comes next.Listen to the full conversation here:

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