💌 SOWM Digest 033 | new year, new newsletter

Hello, and welcome to the first Society of Working Moms newsletter of the new year!

Something I love about this community is that members come through with the best product recs and resources! (see the Member Recs section below for the highlights!)

Most often, they are super tangible tools and tricks.

And sometimes, they are a mega 🧀 musical numbers.

I most recently shared this one about the indescribable feeling that something good is just around the corner:

Anyway, I hope everyone is bringing this energy into their 2025. (Okay, “this energy” minus the tragic Romeo and Juliet-esque ending! IYKYK.)

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Member Recs

Not sponsored… just the good stuff as touted inside the Slack community!

This free shipping price tracker/hacker, this beginner-friendly journal, these mini meditation candles, this life-changing book/philosophy on letting go, these dimmable lights for under your cabinets, this resource for making school lunches that actually get eaten, these delicious salty meat snacks, this downloadable habit tracker, any sort of grow-a-long kids’ winter wear, this [home birth approved!] Nugget knock-off, this PBS-streaming documentary about menopause, this postpartum support network, and this manifesto on rest.

Speaking of which…

Weekly Read

Should Adults Nap?
Parent Data
(4-minute read time)
(Discuss it here!)

Open Roles & Opportunities

The following roles were all posted to our #job-board channel and the ♨️ indicates warm leads from a SOWM member. 

• ♨️ Freelance marketer with Thinkific experience @ The Modern Leader (Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Associate Enrollment Marketing Manager @ Hinge Health (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Brand Partnerships & Communications Strategist @ [undisclosed] (Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Grants Management Consultant @ Community Sponsorship Hub (hybrid) (Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Various Marketing and Program Manager roles @ Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (hybrid - Boston) (all listings / Slack thread🔒️)

• Senior Community Manager @ Dreamers & Doers (Remote) (JD)

• Various SEO and Marketing roles @ iPullRank (Remote) (all listings)

• GM of Platform @ Mapbox (Remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Learning & Talent Development Program Manager @ Mapbox (Remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Senior Manager, Partnerships @ Babylist (Remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Director of e-Learning Success & Data @ #twiceasnice Recruiting (Remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

Hiring for or know of an opening at a parent-friendly company but not in the Slack community? Simply reply to this email! (Extra good karma for warm leads!)

Member Spotlight Member Map

In lieu of a member spotlight this week, I thought I’d share the latest member map!

Well over 100 badass working moms and more than 50 towns/metro areas are represented, with red being the hottest member market (Twin Cities metro shoutout with the Boston metro in second place)!

(P.s.: this is far from ideal in terms of functionality! who here is a Google Maps wizard who can help me build this out into a more comprehensive member database? 🤔 Get in touch with ideas!)

SOWM Community News

• Welcome to our newest members 👋 Cate G., Jess W., Sarah K., Leann V., Tashia S., Cindy L., Jill K., Barrett S., Sara S., Satta H., and Beth B.!

  • Meet the group over in #intros-and-networking🔒️!

• “Resident Coach” Jess Ringgenberg is now Head of Coaching! 👏 (You can read a little more about this here!)

  • Reminder for folks who are new here: group coaching is a member benefit and happens every Wednesday (with a few exceptions). See the #coaching-convos channel🔒️ to join in the love!

• We’ve rolled out a 1:1 member matchmaking program for those looking for a little more face time with other rad working moms! Matches will start at the end of the week — sign up here🔒️!

• New channel: #faith-struggle🔒️ | A space for those who are wrestling with religion, whether stepping away from/changing your faith, deconstructing, reconciling religious differences within your circle, creating your own traditions/rituals, talking to your kids about it, etc.

• Extended deadline to order your $5 copy of The Power Pause! You can now order as long as supplies last!

  • The book doesn’t come out until the middle of the month; those of us who have already ordered should have copies in hand in 1-2 weeks!

  • Our author chat with Neha is happening Tuesday, 2/11 at 12PM CT and is free and open to the public!

ISO…

If you can help one of our members with the following, reply to this email I’d I’ll facilitate an intro!

• Connections at Gitlab (Slack thread🔒️)

• An app to track/cancel subscriptions (Slack thread🔒️)

• Courses/resources for writing for social media (Slack thread🔒️)

• Feedback on a baby data passion project/portfolio builder (Slack thread🔒️)

• Intros into startups/mid-size cos that need HR/ops support (Slack thread🔒️)

Slacktivity Highlights

The following are the Top 10 community chat highlights from this past two weeks.

🚨 This sweet momma is navigating the loss of her home due to the California wildfires. Stay tuned for ways we can help.🔒️

• School lunch making burnout (share tips!🔒️)

• Nightbitch and other media recs (add your own!🔒️)

• What Qs to ask when interviewing CFPs (share tips!🔒️)

• Tips for WFH with kids during a school closure? (share tips!🔒️)

• Any experience with hormone replacement therapy? (weigh in!🔒️)

• Another IRL meetup between two members who met in SOWM (yay!🔒️)

• Looking out for possible PPD for this first-time mom-to-be (share tips!🔒️)

• WWYD — position eliminated; dig into LLC, pursue W2, both? (weigh in!🔒️)

• Reminder for self-employed folks to file FinCEN BOIE Report by 1/13 (tyty!🔒️)

• Holding holiday boundaries despite pushback from extended fam (support!🔒️)