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The Nowhere Office

Rachel Johnson: My Working Life

Mar 31, 2025
26:26

This week on The Nowhere Office, hosts Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern speak with journalist, author, and broadcaster Rachel Johnson for another addition of My Working Life in a conversation about her unconventional career journey


Rachel shares how she broke into journalism as the Financial Times’ first female trainee, the early mistakes she learned from, and how she built a career on her own terms. 


She talks about the challenges of balancing working motherhood with her own ambitions, and why her time at the UK Foreign Office left her frustrated. 


The episode also explores her latest project — the Tortoise investigative podcast Master — which looks into the allegations against author Neil Gaiman. Rachel explains what drove her to pursue this complex story and what the experience taught her about the power of persistence and purpose in working life.


The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions.


Music by Julian Brezon.


Learn more at workathon.io.

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