Season 9 | Ep20 Emma Storey: How 2 part-time working mums billed £500K in their first 2 years!

The RAG Podcast · 2026-03-03 · 1h 18m

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Emma Storey: How 2 part-time working mums billed £500K in their first 2 years! Emma Storey never thought she'd still be in recruitment after having kids. She'd never worked with a mum in the industry. Never had a role model who'd done it. The assumption was always the same: have a baby, and your recruitment career is over. But after successfully juggling recruitment and becoming a mum inside the pandemic, in 2023 she launched her own agency with colleague Nicola Morse, a fellow working mum. They launched Hera with the plan to both work part-time, and within months, Emma soon fell pregnant with baby number 2. Inside the first 2 years, working part-time around school runs, nursery pickups and a maternity leave, they have billed £500K. That's £150K in year one during one of the worst recruitment markets in a generation, and £350K in year two with Emma off for three months and working three days a week for the rest. But what makes Emma different isn't the revenue. It's the reason she built the business in the first place. Female candidates regularly tell Hera they're nervous about wearing their wedding ring to interviews because they know it signals they might want children.

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