In this episode of What She Taught Me by Go Long, Jill Consor Beck talks to Rebekah Bastian, CMO at mpathic and author of Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion, who traces her creativity and "delusional optimism" straight back to her free-spirited, artist mother. Rebekah still brings that creative streak into her workday — she admits to "literally being sitting here in a meeting, knitting a leg warmer right now." She's trying to unlearn the same over-involvement she inherited from her mom: "I should delegate more. I should step back more." She was, by her own account, "an absolute train wreck of a teenager" — and still hasn't found a clean answer for what her parents could have done differently.

Resources mentioned:

• Blaze Your Own Trail — https://www.amazon.com/Blaze-Your-Own-Trail-Interactive-ebook/dp/B07Y422NWF

More about Rebekah:

• Website — https://rebekahbastian.com/

• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahbastian/

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• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-long/

Jump to:

00:00 Introduction to Rebekah and Being Purpose-Driven in Her Current Role

01:33 Following in Her Mom's Footsteps as an Artist

03:14 What Went Unacknowledged: A Family of Worriers

05:14 How She Uses Creativity to Bridge Both Personal and Professional Lives

07:00 Time-Boxing Work and Startup Motherhood

09:04 How She Thinks About Her Train Wreck Years As She Parents Her Kids

10:38 The Importance of Vulnerability, Crying, and Asking For Help

12:08 Closing Thoughts and Family Time at the Mariners Game

In this episode of What She Taught Me by Go Long, Jill Consor Beck talks to Shelby Tutty, a certified perimenopause coach and author of two Substacks — The Periprofessional and Women's Health 365. Shelby says the caution her mother carried from childhood trauma — a near-drowning, a serious car accident, a miscarriage — got imprinted onto her, and it shaped her into the kind of parent who can't just relax at the playground. She still remembers her mother throwing her arm out to protect the kids in the front seat every time she had to stop short, and now catches herself repeating her mother's own warnings to her own kids, like "if it's brown and round, step around." She's still questioning whether she took it too far: "I wonder, did I go too far? Did I really imprint upon them?"

Resources mentioned:

• Women's Health 365 (Substack) — https://womenshealth365.substack.com/

• The Periprofessional (Substack) — https://theperiprofessional.substack.com/

More about Shelby:

• Website — https://www.theperiprofessional.com/

• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/theperiprofessional/

• Services — https://theperiprofessional.substack.com/p/paid-services

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• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-long/

Jump to:

00:00 Introduction to the series and guest Shelby Tutty

02:42 When her mother said not to be afraid of men

04:41 Her mother's journey through independence and education in the 60s

08:04 Unseen burdens: trauma and resilience in her mother's life

11:12 Learning to ask for help: a personal transformation

14:36 Parenting imprints from her mother and if it went too far

16:30 Advice to her younger self and understanding her mother better after her passing

17:43 The devastation of losing everything of her mother's in a house fire

In this episode of What She Taught Me by Go Long, Jill Consor Beck talks to Liz Ward, MS, RDN — a dietician and author of The Menopause Diet Plan. Liz credits her mother's insistence on balanced meals and family dinner — "if one egg is good, three eggs are better," a colorful plate on the table every night no matter her mother's work schedule — for shaping how she fed her own three kids. When her mother got sick in her late 80s, three years of doctor's appointments and hospital calls fell to Liz while she was going through perimenopause herself and raising three teenagers, a pattern she attributes to "I was the female" and admits she still doesn't fully know why she took it on. We get into what her mother's own trade-offs cost her, the impact of her grandparents on her today, and what Liz would tell her three daughters about not worrying their way through motherhood the way she did.

Resources mentioned:

• The Menopause Diet Plan — https://www.amazon.com/Menopause-Diet-Plan-Managing-Happiness/dp/0593135660/

• Liz's Substack — https://substack.com/@menopausenutrition

• Liz's previous appearance on Going the Distance — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3hZdNso07g&t=1084s

More about Liz:

• Author page — https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-M.-Ward/author/B001HPCT92

• Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/menopausedietplan

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• LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/go-long/

Jump to:

00:00 Intro to the series: welcoming back Liz Ward

02:26 Liz's Mom as the Para-Dietician

05:21 Dinner on the Table Every Night, No Matter the Chaos

09:12 Living the Sandwich Generation Dream

11:47 Her Own Career Trade-Off: Falling Behind on Technology and Face Time

13:54 How Liz's Grandparents Set the Standard for Self-Sufficiency

17:11 When Liz Told Her Mother She Was Pregnant with Kid #2 Four Months After Kid #1

19:11 Lessons Learned From the Trenches of Motherhood