There are so many narratives about the intersection of motherhood and work. One tells us that "working moms" and "stay-at-home moms" are fundamentally different types of women, and that's there's no fluidity or common ground between the two.

Another tells us that if you must pause your career, its best to do this when your kids are babies (and that the right time to return is when your youngest child starts kindergarten),

Neha Ruch, founder and author of The Power Pause is here to challenge all those outdated narratives. This conversation couldn't have come at a better time: So many millennial women are reevaluating their priorities, their time, and their career trajectories.

Sometimes, we're reevaluating to spend more time with our kids; other times, we're doing it to focus on care for aging parents. Often, it's for both of these reasons (and so many more).

In this episode we discuss:

• Why there's no "right" or "wrong" time to take a career pause
• Why so many millennial women are doing this in the middle stages of parenthood
• How millennial women are making the work of motherhood and daughterhood more visible through record-keeping
• The constant minimization of women's work
• The challenges of choosing your priorities

Topics covered:

Career, working motherhood, stay-at-home motherhood, flexible work, freelance work, ambition, unpaid labor

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