Reinventing Rachel WHY I HAD TO DISAPPEAR
When Rachel Smalley returns to radio next week, it will be with a happy heart and new energy, thanks to two things: a four-year break from broadcasting and the support of a close group of women friends.
Her show First Light on the new radio station Today FM means an early start at 5am every day, but she has done this before when she hosted Early Edition for four years at Newstalk ZB. She left in 2017 because she needed a life change and, she realised afterwards, she was exhausted.
“I had a few coffees with really smart women in the corporate world at the time and I told them I didn’t know what to do,” she recalls.
“I didn’t know what my transferable skills were. To be honest, I didn’t even know what transferable skills were back then!
“I was so fortunate because a lot of them said to me: You’re exhausted. You’ve been living in a crazy world
