{"id":413298,"date":"2026-04-23T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413298\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:51:11","slug":"this-working-life-i-wanted-to-excel-in-my-career-but-i-was-feeling-guilty-being-away-half-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413298\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life: \u2018I wanted to excel in my career, but I was feeling guilty being away half the week\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The hotel interiors designer chats to Mary McCarthy about travelling for work, designing her own \u2018Home of the Year\u2019, and resetting her work-life balance in favour of a better life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grace Kelly is founder of Rose &amp; Reason and co-founder of Gilt &amp; Lore\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d82968fd-f7ed-4b98-8228-5ae839cd0495.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Grace Kelly is founder of Rose &amp; Reason and co-founder of Gilt &amp; Lore<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve done the corporate life for so long, but I need to make my work-life balance work for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is tough, when I am working with the best teams on the best hotels in great cities, to walk away from that. But I was really split with family life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hotel interiors designer chats to Mary McCarthy about travelling for work, designing her own \u2018Home of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[615,93,61,60,90452],"class_list":{"0":"post-413298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dublin","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mary-mccarthy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}