Podcast Episode #8
Working Motherhood Isn’t One Path: It’s a Thousand Small Choices
This episode invites you to zoom out and answer one powerful question: How do you want your life to be different 12 months from now? When you’re juggling work, home, relationships, health, and everything in between, reflection can feel like a luxury, but it’s the starting point.
A big reason moms feel stuck is the pressure to do it all without dropping anything: excel at work, be fully present at home, maintain relationships, and still find time for yourself. That impossible standard creates guilt and emotional strain, and the episode emphasizes that emotions like anxiety, shame, and resentment are not personal failures, they’re information. They’re clues that something needs to change.
One story shared highlights this truth through a working mom navigating profound loss, rebuilding her life through support, education, and new community, and ultimately creating meaningful work rooted in what she learned. The takeaway is not that you need a dramatic reinvention, but that there are always options. Slow down, explore alternatives, journal, talk to someone safe, and share the invisible load with your partner so you can make choices from clarity, not survival mode.
HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:
1️⃣ Ask: what do I want in 12 months?
2️⃣ Emotions are signals, not flaws.
3️⃣ There are options. Get support.
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