💌 WM Digest | April 30, 2024

Mother's Day Promo, Book Club Begins, First WM Workshop!

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Kate Westlund Tovsen
April 30, 2024

A little spring cleaning, since ‘tis the season! 🧽 

If you have “signed up” but can’t access the Slack links below, then you haven’t finished signing up!

At two weeks old 👶 there may still be some registration kinks, so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need some assistance or noticed any sort of registration hiccup!

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Mother’s Day promo through the month of May —
use code MOTHERSDAY for 20% off your subscription.
(That’s $200 for your first year or $20 for your first month!)


🫶 Kate

🌐 COMMUNITY NOTES 🌐

  • Welcome to our newest members: Mo, Nicole S., Nicole C., Lara, Erica, and Lee! 👋 

  • The first-ever WM panel discussion happened last Thursday!

    • Attendees and registrants will have gotten the recap via email from Kate; members can check out #events-and-replays to watch on demand.

  • Book club kicks off this month!!!

    • First up: Stop Waiting for Perfect (and L’Oreal will join us for an author Q&A at the end of the month; date and time TBD!)

    • Be sure to drop your book recs in #book-club because we are voting on titles for the next 3-4 months on Friday!

  • New channel: #coparenting (see description in #private-channel-roundup and DM Kate to join)

  • This week’s coaching conversation is building back confidence after children — see new coaching times below!

  • The first WM workshop AND the first WM community-led event are on the books!!👇️ 

🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS 🗓️
(Events added or updated this week are highlighted.)

  • Thurs, May 2 12:00PM - 12:45PM CT - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Thurs, May 2 6:30PM - 7:15PM CT - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Mon, May 6 7:00PM - 8:00PM CT - Mindful Moms Job Search Circle | Topic: Rage (RSVP)

  • Weeks of May 6 & 13 - Coaching Convos with Jess - TBD after this week’s trial

  • Thurs, May 16 8:30PM - 9:00PM CT - Speed Networking (RSVP)

  • SAVE THE DATE! Fri, May 17 10:00AM - 11:00AM - Workshop - Mother’s Vision: Establishing a Blueprint for the Mom you Want to Be

🧵 THREADS OF NOTE 🧵 

🤓 COMMUNITY RECS 🤓 

🔦 NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 🔦 

🔗 Jillian Whitlow | Mother | Parent Advocate | Head of Customer Success @ pumpspotting | Customer Success, Sales

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Kids: a 24-month-old son (Maynard) and a 20-week-old daughter (Freya)
📍 Location: small-town Central Texas.
💗 Favorite thing about WM: The broadness of it. As mothers (and especially working mothers) we are dealing with so much - the scope of our responsibilities is infinite. As such, it only makes sense that the potential for support is also infinite. I love that WM makes it possible to connect with others from varied backgrounds and in every stage of motherhood to solve a problem based on collective experience.
😋 Favorite Food: Crawfish! I'm a Cajun gal, raised in NOLA. There is nothing better than a crawfish boil.
🎥 Favorite Movie: Catch Me if You Can
🐶 Pets: One blue healer/Australian shepherd mix named Suma (11yo) and working on hubby to adopt a neighborhood stray that keeps coming around
💪 Recent Win: I gave birth to my daughter in January and had a natural birth (although that wasn't originally my plan)! Long story short, we live about 1.5 hours from my delivering hospital. My water broke 10 minutes out from the hospital, we barely made it up to triage, and my daughter was born within 5 minutes of arriving, after just a single push. I felt SO empowered after this experience and am absolutely astounded by what women can do.
🌊 Favorite Way to Relax: laying in the sand at the beach, listening to the waves with my eyes closed (I should find a way to make this happen more often)...

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