Boss Mom: Balancing Career & Baby as a Single Mom in the 80s with Shay Wafer (Season Finale!)

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There’s no better guest to wrap our first season than Shay Wafer, arts & culture powerhouse and grandmother who chose to become a single parent in the 80s. She also managed the theater where Maria and Ann-Sophie met when they were just babies themselves. We couldn’t be happier to have our forever “boss mom” on to share her wisdom!

Tune in to hear us chat about:

• Why Shay choose to be a single and “older” mom at a time when it wasn’t the norm
  
  
• Pursuing studies (at Yale, no less) and a high-level career while raising a young child
  
  
• The hard decisions Shay had to make to balance career ambitions and caretaking
  
  
• Choosing natural childbirth and why it was so important to her
  
  
• Assumptions people make about single, Black mothers - then and now
  
  
• How Shay’s daughter taught her to open up and communicate more
  
  
• The beauty of becoming a grandmother and seeing lessons passed on to the next generation 

We'll be back soon with a Season 1 Wrap Up and what's to come for Season 2!

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