Stepping Up for the Working Mom Nikki Gingrich

Reenee Khanna is the Founder of Love Your Moon Cycle, a clinical herbalist and purveyor of ancient wisdom and medicine.
Over the last five years, Reenee has been helping women around the world battle PMS and painful periods, using ancient medicinal wisdom and Ayurveda.  Not only have these women been able to find relief from painful periods, but they have also transformed their lives to feel energized and vibrant throughout their cycle. 

What you'll hear in this episode:
Ayuverda for healingHonoring your cyclical natureAcceptance of yourselfIllness and toxic energyConnect with Reenee: 
Five natural ways to stop mood swings: Free Download Instagram @LoveYourMoonCycleYouTube @ReeneeKhanna  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nellie Harden is a wife, mom to 4 teen/tween daughters, dreamer, adventurer, servant, multipreneur, forever student and a devoted teacher, but her ride-or-die passion is her work as a Family Life & Leadership Coach.  
Her work and passions exist in the realms of family and leadership because she believes that a family filled with creativity, fun, laughter, challenge, adventure, problem-solving, hugs, good food and learning can not only change a person’s life but is the best chance at positively changing the world. 
With a lifelong passion and curiosity in thought, choice, behavior and growth she has found incredible joy in helping families shift perspective, find answers and a path forward.

What you'll hear in this episode:
Building the foundation for your childrenFamily leadershipKeeping open communication with your kidsCore elements of self led leadershipConsequence and growth disciplineConnect with Nellie: https://linktr.ee/nellieharden 

Shamika Woodruff is a personal and executive coach who serves corporate career women and women entrepreneurs who want to build a legacy they are proud of without the overwhelm and self-doubt. Alongside her clients, she curates space to explore possibility with curiosity, without judgement and a genuine interest in client success.  

Shamika decided to become a coach to be the person she needed when coming up through the ranks of her career. Shamika holds professional coach training from Duke Integrative Medicine, the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute and is currently serving in the US Air Force with seventeen years of service.

What you'll hear in this episode:
Authenticity in work and lifeWhere are the gaps in your life?Infertility and miscarriagesMoving through different seasons of lifeBoundaries as a working momConnect with Shamika:
 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/shamikawoodruff
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_shamikawoodruff
Website: shamikawoodruff.com
Free Gift - Download of e-book, “Be. Say. Do. How to Craft Your Dreams Into Your Reality”: https://bit.ly/steppinguppodcastgift

Michelle Keefe is the CEO of MomUp.  As a stay at home mom, Michelle discovered, like many of her friends, she wanted to continue her career path with businesses who value work/life balance. Michelle found herself surrounded by highly educated, skilled, energetic multi-tasking mega stars that were unemployed and looking for new and exciting challenges. She realized that by forging partnerships with progressive companies and connecting them with skilled talent MomUp could make a huge impact. 

In this episode we discuss:
Work/life balance and a lack of boundariesThe missing link in the hiring process for working parentsAdvocacy for a broken system that doesn't supporting working parentsKey questions to ask during the interview processConnect with Michelle:

https://www.instagram.com/momupco
https://www.facebook.com/MomUpCo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-keefe-27ab5b/

https://www.momup.com/
Career kickstarter guide/toolkit: https://www.momup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/KickStarter.pdf

Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the first consultancy in the US to focus exclusively on parental leave. Drawing on over 25 years in executive leadership development and coaching, Amy consults with Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, working parents, and more to transform the way our companies and our country engage with the parental leave transition.

Sue Campbell is a writer, author, and coach who has worked with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership since its early days, helping to communicate the transformative impact of their core mission. Her writing, often focused on issues important to parents, has been published in many outlets, including Prevention, Good Housekeeping, Scary Mommy, and Mamalode.

In this episode we discuss:
The future of parental leave in the US and how you can be a part of that change.How the pandemic has affected working moms. Moving forward after the mass exodus of working moms over the last 18 months.Making changes for yourself and your organization regarding parental leave. Learn more about the Center for Parental Leave Leadership at https://cplleadership.com/

Connect with Dr. Amy and Sue at info@cplleadership.com

Contact congress today to voice your desire for parental leave in the US at PaidLeaveForAll.org. 

Dr. Susan Landers is a neonatologist for over thirty-five years and a mother to three of her own children, Dr. Landers describes the incredibly demanding environment of the NICU and how she managed to deal with burnout near the end of her career. While caring for sick newborns and critically ill premature babies, Dr. Landers often worked more than sixty hours per week. At age sixty-two and seemingly without warning, her physical and emotional exhaustion ballooned.
She is author of the new memoir So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy Medical Career & Motherhood
Today we’re going to talk about  the signs of burnout, the reasons why it can have long-term impacts on our individual health, as well as the health and productivity of our society, and most importantly, what we should do if we're feeling burned out by work. 

Connect with Dr. Susan Landers: 

https://www.facebook.com/susanlandersmd
https://www.instagram.com/susanlandersmd/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-landersmd/
https://twitter.com/susanlandersmd
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45507615-susan-landers