💌 SOWM Digest 035 | share your skills

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Events Preview

* = member-led session
🤗 = open to the public

Reciprocity is foundational to the SOWM community. As such, we are putting out a call for member-led programming!

If you are a working mom with a skill to share and are interested in learning more about tapping into the SOWM network, reply to this email and let me know what you have in mind!

No topic is off limits, but past sessions have included: Maternity Leave for Freelancers; Enclothed Cognition: The Hidden Power of Clothing; LinkedIn Profile Optimization; See It, Do It: Vision Boarding; Recruiter Resume Tips; Design Best Practices.

Member Recs

The good stuff, as touted inside the Slack community!

This app for streamlining calls to your lawmakers; these 27 remote jobs boards with curated & vetted roles; this jet lag-reducing app; this free business mentoring program; this, this, and this book about body boundaries; this US-based VA agency, this tiny Toyota for your littles, this enchanting forest floor-inspired board game, and this wisdom-packed newsletter.

Weekly Read

This Viral Facebook Post Urges People to Rethink Self-Care
from Fashion Magazine
7-minute read

Open Roles & Opportunities

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

• ♨️ Recruiting Coordinator @ Sage Haus (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Various roles — marketing, product, sales, engineering — @ SmartAsset (remote) (all listings / Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Biz Dev Exec @ MilkMate (hybrid Manhattan) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• ♨️ Sales Associate @ MilkMate (hybrid Manhattan) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

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

• Design RFP @ Grit Catalyst (short term contract, remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Director, Commercial Planning @ Olipop (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Head of Product @ Halo (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Customer Engagement and Business Manager @ Microsoft (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Email Developer @ The Lactation Network (remote, contract) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Creative Project Mgr @ The Lactation Network (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Data Scientist, Trust & Safety @ Bumble (NYC) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Senior Director of Comms @ Vote Mama Foundation (remote) (JD / Slack thread🔒️)

• Director of Comms @ Girls Who Code (remote or NYC) (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!)

SOWM Community News

• Welcome to our newest members 👋 Amanda M., Heather P., Ariel Z., Kasey M., Rujuta P.!

• If you haven’t already, sign up for 1:1 member matching through our new “curated connections” program!

• We are leaning into member-led programming right now. Tell us what you’d like to skillshare/present/see over in #present-a-session🔒️ or reply to this email.

• Our author chat with Neha Ruch (The Power Pause — our Q1 No-Stakes Book Club pick!) has been pushed back to Friday, 3/14 at 12PM.

Slacktivity Highlights

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

• Anyone hired a VA/bookkeeper? (weigh in!🔒️)

• Gamification of the invisible load? (try it out!🔒️)

• Advice for taking out a small biz loan? (weigh in!🔒️)

• How to process/survive all the news (pt I!🔒️ & pt II!🔒️)

• Launching a new website at 36.5 weeks pregnant (salute!🔒️)

• Dealing with communication breakdowns at work (support!🔒️)

• The job search hack that is working for this mom (try it out!🔒️)

• Overseas work travel tips and comfort buys (give/get ideas!🔒️)

• Navigating Black History Month with multiracial kids (support!🔒️)

• Dr. Becky’s tips for embracing “The Learning Space” (adopt it!🔒️)

Take care of each other,