TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING

So a heartfelt thank you for listening to this and sharing it with your friends and family, for rating and reviewing it wherever you’re listening, and for following TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I’m DOING on social media. Let’s talk about appreciating the pause. We don’t savor it enough and yet pauses and resets are elegantly and critically embedded into so many things…spring or summer break or a gap year from school, diastole in the cardiac cycle, and retreats for artists and in business. These pauses are intentional downshifts, designed for restorative energy activation. And, you know, the curation of thought and progress during that pause is in fact just as important to highlight as the surrounding before and after activities. Now for many women, finding the personal, structural, and strategic support to recognize and amplify a pause for motherhood and parenting in a career journey is filled in 2023 with an incredible number of institutional and cultural obstacles It’s why I enjoyed sharing an important conversation with Neha Ruch, who is the founder of Mother Untitled and on a mission to update the perception of stay-at-home motherhood in America, infusing it with ambition, dignity, growth, and potential. Neha immigrated from India to the US with her family when she was four and grew up in Massachusetts. She spent a decade in brand strategy and consumer insights and received her M.B.A. from Stanford, before her own career pause. Neha established her independent media brand, MOTHER UNTITLED, in 2017, in the early days of her own motherhood journey, as a digital destination for progressive, ambitious women who have opted to focus on motherhood for a life chapter. Her work to support and provide thought leadership are helping to offer lots of important substrate in catalyzing the needed reframing around identity, confidence, ambition, mentorship, and community for moms navigating through their individual multiverses. Neha is currently authoring a forthcoming book called 'The Power Pause', and so we caught up to talk about lessons learned in patience and acceptance, trust and stigma, and the gray zones that make each individual story so non-linear. But we started by chatting about the notion that we often live through as parents in that the days are long but the years are short…