Sara helped us remember we were brave enough to start the Podcast! We're excited to be able to chat with her this week. We get to learn about her winding journey, how she allows herself to listen to and follow signs that change her professional direction. How she struggles with time management and balancing work. She shares interesting self care and reset techniques she uses. Tune in to learn more!

Where Sara works.
Space Poppers!
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Wild On Wikipedia

This week we are chatting with Kelly Roberts, who shares with us her experiences starting a business, working to get WILD into a nationally recognized group, her love of volunteerism and how she wants to use her company to help change the way we hire those who have less 'normalized' availability for their job. She shares what brings her joy and how she's found herself in a really joyful content chapter in life.

Where Kelly Works.

Things Kelly mentions:
WILD website
WILD Nomination link
Light for Life Website and donation link

The lady Jane
Bridgerton
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Light googling on Lizard Brain...

Rachel and Katherine talk to their friend Kate Cullen. Discussing how Kate balances running a company, having 3 kids, 2 dogs and 2 cats. The challenges of having little kids and how to maintain balance when all the work lives on your shoulders. From imposter syndrome to resilience after a devasting fire, Kate shares how she stays so positive.

Where Kate works.

This week we have Stacie Dinwiddy who is a work colleague of Katherine's on the Podcast! Stacie shares with us her brave journey in self evolution, we chat about our mutual love of therapy, how to raise strong daughters, why the internet is so concerning, how to balance work and home life and why making mommy friends is tough.

Things Stacie Mentions:
Shows:
Erik on Netflix
Dancing for the Devil

Books:
You can heal yourself
Gary Chapman's Everybody Wins

Where Stacie works.

On this week's episode, Katherine and Rachel get to chat with Brittany Lynch! They discuss balancing motherhood and a design career, parenting roles, unpaid labor and communication within a household, how the industry is reacting to mothers in the workforce, breastfeeding experiences and bringing up puberty with your kiddos.

Links Brittany Mentions:

Where Brittany works.

Organizations:

Moms First: Reshma Saujani founded, this movement is trying to get better care in the US. It’s a big task, but they are making their way.

Better Life Labs: Brigid Schulte is the director, she wrote the book Overwhelm: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. That book was published in 2014, and already is outdated in how we think, but it was a catalyst for me.
https://www.newamerica.org/better-life-lab/

Podcasts about this stuff (some are limited episodes but so good)

Why Care: Reshma Saujani’s podcast with Care.com CEO Tim Allen

Parent Data: Emily Oster is an economist, loves numbers, and she uses numbers and data to help explain parenting issues, so good
https://parentdata.org/post-type/podcast/

Time Out: Author of Fair Play, Eve Rodsky’s podcast

White Picket Fence: listen to season Nuclear Family Myth, What Could Have Been, and the Rise of Neoliberalism. These episodes are when things truly began to sink in.

Books:

Fair Play: such a classic at this point, take the guess work out of the “shit I do” list!

Screaming on the Inside: Jessica Grose, NYT author I follow. I recommend this book only for already parents. Some people may not ever want to have kids after reading.

Welcome to the first episode of the Whelmed Podcast! We decided to interview each other! We talk about everything from how we're feeling now to what our power outfit would be to how great music is, we're looking forward to sharing more on future episodes.

Notes on Books/Shows Referenced:

The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Bridgerton on Netflix

Where Katherine works.
Where Rachel works.