Transitioning Back to Work After a Career Break — Episode #075 With Rita Kakati
If you’ve taken a career break to raise kids, going back to work can feel challenging. How do you prepare yourself emotionally for the transition?
Create A Systems Manual and Operating Best Practices for Your Family — Episode #074 With Renée Warren
Renée Warren applied a business philosophy to her home life by holding meetings and setting goals based on their values. And that changed everything.
How to Reduce Fear and Build a Courage Habit — Episode #073 With Kate Swoboda
Kate Swoboda built her coaching practice on the idea that fear-based habits can be replaced with courage-based behaviors: we can be afraid and do it anyway.
How to Work Through a Tough Problem With a 4 Step Journaling Process — Episode #072
If you’re chewing on a tough problem, journaling is one way to move forward. Today I share my 4-step process of journaling for clarity.
Depressed, Pregnant, and Unemployed, and Finding Meditation — Episode #071 With Anna Gannon
Anna Gannon was 7½ months pregnant when she lost her job. To combat her worries, Anna committed to 30 days of meditation. Listen to hear what she learned.
What Surprised Me Most About Parenting — Episode #070
I asked the Startup Pregnant community to share what surprised them most about pregnancy and parenting. Today, I’m sharing those responses with you.
Leaning into the Power of Sisterhood, Personal Leadership, and how Sharing Changes Shame — Episode #069 With Nisha Moodley
Nisha Moodley came to understand the power of sisterhood by accident. Since then, Nisha’s work has come to focus on the power of women in groups.
Celebrating Rest, Leisure, and Laziness
This letter is as much a note to myself as to all of you: taking time to nap, to rest, to say no, and to cross things off your to-do list without doing them (or destroying the to-do list altogether!) is about as badass as you can get in a world that glorifies overwork and overdoing.
Lessons Learned From Launching the Startup Pregnant Mastermind — Episode #068
Today, I’m walking you through what it takes to put together a mastermind and explaining why I chose to do it now—in the middle of my second pregnancy.
The Learning Curve
The first time I tried to navigate a stroller into a coffee shop, I was at the wrong coffee shop. I say that because the coffee shop had a step in front of it, and everyone looked like they thought I was evil to have a stroller with me. Also, I had no idea what I was doing. Needless to say, it didn’t go that well.
