What If I Only Work 2 Days Per Week? — Episode #160 with Kelsey Kerslake

What If I Only Work 2 Days Per Week? — Episode #160 with Kelsey Kerslake

Kelsey Kerslake runs a design agency as well as a coaching business, and has a young kiddo at home who just turned one. Her husband is an essential worker, so she hasn’t had a minute of childcare or backup help throughout all of this. Here’s how she is rescheduling her days and dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Her question—can she keep working on a reduced schedule and still have the same impact?

10 Conversation Starters To Dive Deeper When We Talk About the Challenges of Being A Working Parent

10 Conversation Starters To Dive Deeper When We Talk About the Challenges of Being A Working Parent

If you can, bring a group of people together for a dinner or a virtual hangout to talk about the challenges facing working parents. Here are the ways we gather together in community at Startup Pregnant, plus ten conversation starters to use for your own deep-dive. Use them to gather people together. Have everyone share what comes up for them. Sometimes sharing your story is the shift you need to make the next month a whole lot better.

Becoming A Parent: Of Course You’re Going To Change

Becoming A Parent: Of Course You’re Going To Change

Everyone tells women to bounce back after having a kid. Like, don’t change—don’t do anything except, of course, become a mom and be a mother 100% and love your kids and leave work because, obviously, you’ll leave work and you won’t be the same. Except also, don’t change. WTF?

Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime — Episode #124

Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime — Episode #124

Startup Pregnant is taking a summer break! That’s right, we will be off for the month of August, but back to you with fresh weekly content in September. For this summer’s final podcast, Sarah digs into: the real life struggles of being a double working parent family over the summer, the breaks she wishes she’d taken as a new mom and business owner over the past few years, and explains why literal brakes—like on cars—are the real reason we can get so much done.