The Fifth Trimester: A Working Mom's Guide | Lauren Smith Brody & Kate Bolduan
#235 - CNN host Kate Bolduan and former Glamour executive editor Lauren Smith Brody give tips for heading back to work after having kids.
Just back from maternity leave, Kate Bolduan gives us three momhacks for transitioning back to work. And Fifth Trimester founder Lauren Smith Brody shares lessons from her fun, comforting, and informative book: The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby. We talk about changing workplace culture, the gender pay gap as it relates to mamas, how to ask for flex time, signs of postpartum mood disorder, and what to do if you have the sudden itch to quit. You may have first heard this episode in April 2018. It's worth a revisit!
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What’s the “fifth trimester?”:
Crib Notes (AKA Episode Research)
Lauren Smith Brody’s Working Mom Resources - The Fifth Trimester Website
The Great CNN Baby Boom - Cosmopolitan
What New Moms Should Know About the ‘Fifth Trimester’ - Motherly
How 4 of America’s Busiest Women Get It Done - The Cut
About Our Guest: Kate Bolduan & Lauren Smith Brody
Kate Bolduan is anchor and host of CNN's "At This Hour" and "State of America" on CNN International.
Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and the author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby (Doubleday), a simultaneous #1 best-seller in the Amazon categories of Motherhood, Women & Business, and Cultural Anthropology. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN.com, Forbes, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glamour, Refinery29, and dozens more outlets for business leaders and mothers.
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Fair Play | NYT Bestselling Author Eve Rodsky on Rebalancing Family Responsibilities and Reclaiming Your Time
#233 - A current New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine bookclub pick, FAIR PLAY by Eve Rodsky tackles the question: how can we share domestic responsibilities in a fair and systematic way so that mothers can reclaim their lives from the thankless time-suck of “invisible labor”? Backed with a Harvard Law degree and organizational management know-how, Eve Rodsky is here to share a clear cut system for our modern families. I don’t know about your household, but in ours, too much is falling through the cracks, from forgotten school forms to cherished relationships with friends.
We’ve got this one life; how are we going to consciously choose to live it?
Eve helps us cut through the crap and figure out a fair approach to managing our domestic lives. Adam and I have just started implementing this system and our marriage is stronger for it. Listen up!
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