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I spend a lot of time helping women get clearer on I spend a lot of time helping women get clearer on what they need and want and make decisions they trust. Apparently this expertise does not extend to blazers. 😂 And yes, I do believe they are all sufficiently different to justify their existence. #WorkingMumLife #WomenInBusiness #WomenInLeadership #CoachLife #BlazerObsessed
This was such a small moment, but it stayed with m This was such a small moment, but it stayed with me. Because I know I've done this too. I've explained a choice when nobody asked me to. Added context so someone would understand. Made sure they knew there was a perfectly reasonable explanation for why I was doing things this way. Some of that comes from living in a world where mothers genuinely are judged for their choices. And some of us came into motherhood already very practised at paying attention to other people's reactions and wanting to be seen as doing the “right” thing. It's something I notice a lot in my work with women. The goal isn't to stop caring what anyone thinks. We live in relationships, our decisions affect other people, and sometimes another perspective is genuinely useful. But there's a difference between considering someone's perspective and feeling as though you need their approval, or that you have to override your own priorities for theirs. #WorkingMums #MotherhoodAndIdentity #ModernMotherhood #SelfTrust
Some decisions feel enormous because we treat them Some decisions feel enormous because we treat them as if they have to work forever. Going back to work. Changing your hours. Taking a new role. Stepping back for a while. Trying a different childcare arrangement. Dropping a commitment or extra curricular activity. Setting a new boundary. Outsourcing something. That pressure to make the decision that will be “right” forever can make it much harder to hear what you actually want or need now, while keeping you focused on everything that could go wrong. Sometimes the most useful question is simply: What decision works for this season? You can review it later. You can adjust when your circumstances change. You’re allowed to learn from what happens once you’ve actually tried it. Many decisions in motherhood and work can be right for now, without needing to be right forever. 🎙 From my conversation with @899thelight on the @shayleeandrobshow. Comment RADIO if you'd like me to send you the full conversation. #WorkingMums #WorkingMotherhood #Matrescence #CareerAndMotherhood #MotherhoodAndCareer
Have you ever wondered whether people see you diff Have you ever wondered whether people see you differently at work now that you’re a mother? There is research behind that experience. One of the best-known studies on the “motherhood penalty” compared equally qualified candidates whose applications differed in whether they indicated they were a parent. Mothers were judged as less competent and less committed than otherwise equivalent women without children. They were also less likely to be recommended for hire and were offered lower starting salaries. Fathers did not experience the same penalty and sometimes benefited from being identified as parents. This doesn’t mean every mother will experience maternal bias, or that every difficult experience at work after entering motherhood is caused by it. But knowing it exists gives us another lens through which to examine what’s happening. When you find yourself worrying that you’re no longer as capable, hesitating to ask for what you need, or feeling pressure to prove that motherhood hasn’t affected your commitment, the answer isn’t always another confidence strategy. Sometimes there are assumptions around you that need examining too. And importantly, becoming a mother doesn’t mean you’ve become less ambitious. Your ambition may have changed. You may want different things from work now. You should get to decide what those things are. Not have them decided for you. Save this if you want to come back to it, or share it with a working mum who needs to know this. #MaternalBias #MotherhoodPenalty #WorkingMums #WomenAtWork #WomenInLeadership
You don't leave the mental load at home when you g You don't leave the mental load at home when you go to work. Many workplaces still don't fully understand this. When you leave for work, the mental load doesn't stay behind waiting for you to come home. It comes with you. It's remembering the phone call you need to make at lunchtime. Wondering whether your child is settling at childcare. Thinking about dinner while you're in a meeting. Remembering that tomorrow is library day. Carrying the emotional weight of a difficult morning before you even open your laptop. It's not that working mothers can't focus. It's that they're often focusing on two worlds at once. A recent Pew Research study of working parents in the United States found that 70% of parents do parenting-related tasks while they're working, and 59% do work-related tasks while they're with their children. The boundaries between work and family aren't just blurred, they overlap. I've never met a mother who wanted it to be this way. Most are doing their absolute best to be fully present wherever they are. But that's incredibly difficult when your mind is carrying responsibilities from both worlds. Maybe the question isn't, "Why can't I concentrate?" Instead, let's ask, "What am I carrying that nobody else can see?" Reference: Minkin, R., Lin, L., Braga, D., & Hurst, K. (2026). For Working Parents, the Boundary Between Work and Family Is Often Blurred. Pew Research Center. #WorkingMothers #MentalLoad #MotherhoodAndCareer #WorkingMum #Matrescence
I genuinely intend to go to bed earlier. Yes, I kn I genuinely intend to go to bed earlier. Yes, I know I need more sleep. But the uninterrupted alone time is just so good. 😂 #WorkingMumLife #MumLife #WorkingMums #AloneTime #MotherhoodUnfiltered
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