• Blog
  • Who is Lisa Lintern
  • Lintern Communications

Melodramatic Me

Melodramatic Me

The blog of Lisa Lintern

Why paid parental leave matters

May 15, 2015 By Lisa Lintern Leave a Comment

I’m a double dipper. I confess I once may have gone in for an extra helping of gherkin dip with the same cracker while no one was watching. And I also received maternity payments from both my employer and the government when I had my first child. But it wasn’t the Australian taxpayer I was ‘ripping off’. It was actually the taxpayers of another country I am fortunate enough to share my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

I will remember them. But I will not speak for them.

April 25, 2015 By Lisa Lintern 1 Comment

Anzac day is important for remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice during wartime. From the minute I woke up today, my Facebook newsfeed flooded with people paying their respects at Dawn Services and attending marches across the country. But as I scrolled through these posts I felt mixed. Not about the sentiment behind those images. Nor the futility of war that took the innocent lives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Dread for the women scaling the corporate ladder

April 22, 2015 By Lisa Lintern 3 Comments

In recent weeks the winds of change have breezed ever so gently across Australia’s male dominated professional landscape. A number of new initiatives aimed at supporting female participation in the workforce at the highest levels have nudged us in the right direction. Last month South Australian Chief Justice Chris Kourakis targeted gender imbalance in the legal profession with an initiative to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

I had a dream! Then I woke up to my mortgage…

March 17, 2015 By Lisa Lintern 5 Comments

Last week I went to a business-networking event to listen to a successful businessperson share her success story. I won’t name who it was, but she certainly enjoys a remarkable career as a self-made entrepreneur. She was a great presenter and very likeable. I guess you would describe her as your quintessential motivational speaker echoing messages around the conference room like: “You just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Where are all the women CEOs? By the washing line…

August 26, 2014 By Lisa Lintern 3 Comments

“Why are there hardly any women CEOs?” is the bewildered cry. “What on earth are we doing wrong? Do we need more mentors? Do we need more management quotas? Do we need gender-biased recruitment processes?” No. No we don’t. If you ask me, these things are missing the heart of the matter. And that heart of the matter is housework. Yep, you read me right. Housework. And a range of other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Simply know

July 31, 2014 By Lisa Lintern 6 Comments

The tone of my Facebook page has changed in recent months. Less frequent are the jokesy ‘mumma-on-the-edge’ updates and more frequent are updates linking to tragic, and at times unbelievable, stories. I wonder if my friends welcome my somber and impassioned updates? My posts might be a rude and confronting awakening in between the cat memes and food photographs. But I can’t help it. This is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Why I can’t look away

July 22, 2014 By Lisa Lintern 4 Comments

Yesterday I vented my frustration. “Stop reading,” was the well-meaning advice from friends who care. But I can’t. I can’t stop reading. I can’t stop watching. As I told my beautiful concerned friends, I feel like I owe it to the people whose lives have been stolen by the sheer stupidity of the human race. Yes, the news is particularly confronting and distressing at the moment. But so are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

People no different to us

July 20, 2014 By Lisa Lintern 2 Comments

I can’t tell you how many times I have flown internationally. I was 11-years-old the first time I flew the kangaroo route between Australia and London when my parents took me to England to meet our extended family. Since then I’ve stepped onboard many Europe-bound planes: as a child, as a backpacker, as a businessperson, as the wife of an Irishman. Hundreds and hundreds of hours watching that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

When did we all start smoking again?

July 8, 2014 By Lisa Lintern Leave a Comment

About three months ago I picked up a contract with a client who wanted me to work onsite in their office in Sydney’s city centre. It’s been a while since I’ve worked in the city. Sure I’ve popped in for meetings or client visits. But it has probably been more than 10 years since I’ve had to travel into the city on a daily basis. At first I quite enjoyed it. The early morning ferry ride followed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

This is why we have pets…

June 10, 2014 By Lisa Lintern 3 Comments

I wrote this for a vet blog I sometimes write for. I love it so much, I had to post it here too... My seven-year-old son and our dog Dexter are inseparable. They are always side-by-side: in the playroom; in the garden; down the park; and on the lounge at the end of the day watching television. Sometimes I swear the dog thinks he’s my son’s biological twin brother. It’s a beautiful thing to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Melodramatic? Sometimes. Passionate? Always. Expressive? Habitually. Anxious? Regularly. My words sometimes appear in other places too. Read my published work here.

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Subscribe

Never miss a blog post, just drop your email address in below.

Recent Posts

  • If I was a man, I’d be nervous about gender equality too
  • Flexible working? Pft…yeah right.
  • The day I saw my own racism
  • Survey results: where are all the blokes?
  • The day I became the ‘older lady’

Posts by month

Copyright Lisa Lintern © 2014 | Website by Kelly Exeter @ Swish Design