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The personal pro-life tips of a mother of 58 Facettes
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Alexandra, after 15 years of experience in Place Vendôme, driven by her commitment to a circular economy and to giving more meaning to the values she defends, is co-founder of 58 Facettes and Commercial Director in charge of the development of the offer. Happy mother of four children recently, she gives you as a Mother's Day gift her tips for finding a pro-life balance, even with a large family!
Find a job that excites
« Choose a job you love, and you won't have to work a day in your life. ". Confucian.
I started my career at Cartier then in various jewelry houses, such as Chanel Joaillerie or Mellerio dits Meller. Suffice to say that I never got tired of this luxury sector! Today I am delighted to have joined 58 Facettes, the first marketplace dedicated to second-hand jewelry in Europe. Promoting jewelery heritage and know-how, discovering ancestral jewels - today we have more than 25 jewels online, some of which date from the 000th century, or meeting the players in this sector, it's much more than a job is a passion and convictions!
Find a caring team
When you are a mother, you not only have constraints but also unforeseen events. You have to know how to adapt and quickly, but without a minimum of flexibility and solidarity from the people you work with, it can become really painful. I'm lucky to have a great team that gives me total freedom to organize myself. Alexis has always been able to trust, to be understanding and I have always felt that despite the constraints he knows that I could manage my priorities and move forward. This takes away a weight and a guilt that are in any case rather counterproductive!
Find the job where you have the greatest added value, where you are legitimate, to be effective
At this stage of my career, I chose to capitalize on my experience because investing in a completely new field requires a lot of energy and time. The children are also an adventure and the family is a small start-up, so that makes two of them to manage!! I'm not saying it's impossible, but for my part, I found my professional / personal life balance by looking for a position where I felt efficient and legitimate, immediately with a strong added value and in complementarity with the rest of the team. It's probably linked to my character, which likes things well done. Time is always precious when you're a mom, so I favored a position where I feel operational in all situations.
Know how to juggle and get to work quickly
Take advantage of the speech therapist's waiting room to write a few emails, for example. Adaptability and a sense of opportunity are the keys to not being overwhelmed! And we greatly thank all the new technologies to be able to work on the go…
Receive, invite children's friends a lot
A slumber party will always be a slumber party whether there are 4 or 5 at home, as much to please each child, and we build up a small “credit of invitations” the day when we have a professional constraint and that 'you have to settle your children.
Cultivate a good understanding between brothers and sisters
The good understanding of the siblings is my daily fight, for benevolence and mutual aid between them. The two boys who are 15 months apart are correcting their homework, which allows me to take care of the baby and our 4-year-old granddaughter. We have a group rewards system in place which works very well, and our eldest is quite proud to help out, sometimes amused by a few memories from the past year. Highly recommend the book Brothers and Sisters without Rivalry by Adele Fabet and Elaine Mazlish.
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