
215 episodes

Startup Parent Sarah K Peck
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4.9 • 130 Ratings
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Parent, founder, leader... tired? If you're starting a business or figuring out entrepreneurship AND you've got kids, this podcast is for you. Whether you're thinking about having kids or you're in the mayhem already, we're here to support working parents. Our mission? To tell the truth about motherhood, fatherhood, being a parent, and to inspire us to imagine new ways of working. So maybe we can get a little more sleep.
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Feelings Matter - Experience Greater Emotional Dexterity
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
If you downloaded this episode before November 15th, you might have heard an episode of the Career Can Do podcast rather than our Startup Parent episode: Feelings Matter - Experience Greater Emotional Dexterity. So sorry about that! We had an uploading issue that has since been corrected. You can listen Feelings Matter - Experience Greater Dexterity right here: https://startupparent.com/020-feelings-matter/
Core Value: Feelings Matter - Experience Greater Emotional Dexterity
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Birth Trauma, Informed Consent, and the Flaws of Managed Care — (Allison Yarrow)
#225 — Birth is broken in America. It’s rooted in patriarchy, white supremacy, and a managed care system that pushes profits over people. This medical model provides substandard care that persists because it’s always been done that way—not because it’s rooted in evidence. In fact, plenty of evidence suggests that the managed care model causes widespread problems that affects every aspect of our society today.
Under this medical model, birth has become accepted as trauma, with as much as 30-40% of people who give birth reporting mistreatment or negative experiences. If we want to improve the outcomes of birthing people and families, we must unpack how and why our current system is failing us.
Allison Yarrow, award-winning journalist, speaker, and author, wants to change that narrative with the help of her latest book, “Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood.” There is so much power in a group of people who have been touched by birth. Humanity would not exist without the process of birth, when our bodies are at their strongest.
Allison’s goal is to open up conversations between people who have given birth, inviting us to share our stories and feel validated in them—no matter what they are.
Allison joined host Sarah K Peck on this episode of the Startup Parent Podcast to talk about why birthing is broken under our current healthcare system, and what we can do better in the future. They discuss:
The cascade of interventions and medicalization of birth.
The relationship between trauma and birth.
The importance of informed consent in care.
How a managed model of care leads to worse outcomes.
What we can do to change the birth experience in the future.
The episode is an invitation to unpack the intricacies of birth experiences and the existing systems that influence them so that we can rewrite the narratives around motherhood. Instead of trauma and disempowerment, we can embrace the power and vulnerability of the birth and transform it into an empowered, informed, and agency-driven experience.
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The Power of Creativity and Destruction: Inviting New Futures
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
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Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/019-do-things-differently-core-value/ -
Envision a New World of Work
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
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Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/018-work-broken-core-value-6/ -
Great Planning Requires Flexibility, Not Perfection
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
Plan.
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/017-things-rarely-go-according-plan-core-value-5/ -
How To Escape “Good Girl” Brainwashing — (Lisa Carmen Wang)
#223 — If you struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, or you prioritize everyone else before yourself, chances are you’ve been subjected to “Good Girl Brainwashing.”
Lisa Carmen Wang, founder of the Bad Bitch Empire, joins Sarah K Peck to talk about good girl brainwashing, learning to speak up, and challenging societal norms that limit women's power. In this episode, Lisa shares how to identify the messages that keep women quiet and small, what to do about them, and how to become—in her words—“A Bad Bitch.”
If you want to become a leader and you want to create an impact in this world, then listen to this episode—because your “good girl” training is doing you a disservice. Lisa discusses the harmful effects of perpetuating a system driven by fear and scarcity, and she advocates for a new world order where powerful women lead unapologetically, collaborate, and break free from the competitive zero-sum game that keeps us small. If you want to step into your leadership and your power, then divesting from the good girl messages is imperative.
In this episode, Sarah and Lisa talk about:
What “good girl brainwashing” is and how to combat it.
Identifying your values, knowing your “anti-values,” and how they influence your boundaries.
What Lisa learned from exploring her passion, anger, and healing with plant medicine.
How technology has given women the freedom to think differently about parenting timelines.
The power of ceremony, celebrating yourself as a woman, and Lisa’s egg-freezing shower.
Discover how Lisa is empowering—and financing—women to help them unleash their full potential in a system that thrives on their fear and insecurity.
Lisa shares her journey from being a good girl to becoming a bad bitch, and why she created the Bad Bitch Empire to help other women reclaim their power. You’ll hear about Lisa’s journey from world-class gymnast to Ivy League graduate, her experience leaving Wall Street to become an entrepreneur, and why she isn’t sure about becoming a parent.
SHOW NOTES
Full show notes at startupparent.com/223
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Important and life-shifting
This podcast is so important for anyone who is trying to parent and run a business or work on their creative pursuits. It’s wild what we expect parents to be able to do on their own, and this podcast helps walk us off the ledge so we can take better care of ourselves, our families, and our companies.
Saving the world…
Let me start by saying that during both my postpartum journeys, Sarah and this podcast have been a guiding light for me. Most recently, I listened to a couple episodes and something stuck out to me in #206 I think when’s he was discussing early childhood stressors (ACES) with Michelle Stephens, she said, “It’s almost like if we care for Mothers and children we could save the world?!” And she’s right! As I am coming back to myself I am clear about what my call to action as a Mother, therapist, and human is because of that. Thank you Sarah for this space you have created. Do yourself a favor and listen now!
For Every Parent Leader, Parent Entrepreneur
I am so grateful for the space and community that Sarah Peck has created, for all of us who believe that there has to be a better way to balance parenting, self-actualization, and leading with authenticity, creativity & compassion, without sacrificing our health or sanity in the mix. These podcasts help us challenge the status quo, and forge/carve out/demand a new way forward for generations to come. These are the innovative approaches we all need to embrace, and the conversations we all need to be having. Thank you for such honest, thought provoking and insightful conversations!