💌 WM Digest | August 14

“I send my newsletter on Tuesdays.” Or at least that’s what I tell myself.

But last night, after the kids had gone to bed and as I sat down to write the newsletter, my husband yelled up through the window, Anna-in-Frozen-like, do you want to build a bonfire? 🎶 

So for two weeks in a row, for varying reasons, I’m sending the newsletter a day late. And not a one of you has pointed out my transgression!

So… 🪄 permission to let yourself change the rules. Especially rules you’ve made up. And especially rules that no one else is paying attention to.

“I send my newsletter around Tuesday.” Happy Wednesday! 🙃 

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🌐COMMUNITY NOTES🌐

• Welcome to our newest members: Sam, Sarah, Amy, and Haya! 👋 

• It’s been awhile since we’ve done a member feature in the newsletter — any takers? Reply here or send me a DM in Slack!

• Attn: biz-owners — vote on a time for a consultants call🔒️, if you haven’t already!

• Today’s coaching conversation is all about self-promotion. Tune in soon (12PM CT!) in #coaching-convos!🔒️ 

• Speaking of coaching, want a concentrated dose of coach Jess? Cohort applications are open for the Thriving in Motherhood Collective, a 6-week intensive that starts September 3!

🗓️UPCOMING EVENTS🗓️

New sessions since the last newsletter are noted in grey! Member-led sessions are noted with an *asterisk.

• Wednesday, August 7 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

• Wednesday, August 14 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

• Thursday, August 15 @ 8:30 - 9:00 PM CT - Speed Networking Happy [Half] Hour (RSVP)

• Wednesday, August 21 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

• Thursday, August 22 @ 9:00 - 10:00 AM CT - Creative Command: Design Best Practices (RSVP)*

• Friday, August 23 @ 12:30 - 1:00 PM CT - New & Prospective Member Orientation (RSVP)

• Thursday, August 29 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT - Building Relationships in a Virtual World… (RSVP)*

• TBD: Financial Workshop

💡 A reminder that Group Coaching is only available to women within the Slack community. You don’t need to RSVP via Luma, but when you do, you get a calendar hold and handy reminders.

👉️MEMBER RECS👈️

This female-forward country album that even a non-country lover can get behind, this and this career-break-normalizing platform, and this Oh, Crap!-ish approach to potty training.

(We are fairly light on member recs this week! Note to Slack members: I share things that are dropped throughout the channels, but also direct from the #member-recs🔒️ channel. Share your latest and greatest tips/tricks/tools/trimmings/trappings over there! No gatekeeping here! 🙅‍♀️)

🤝WARM LEADS🤝 

• Social Media Manager @ Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (PD / Intro Thread)

A cool job posting is 💁‍♀️ but a warm lead is 👩‍🍳👌.
So especially if you are able to make an intro, please post it in the #job-board🔒️ channel!

💡LINKEDIN HIGHLIGHTS💡

Here’s what some of our members are chattering about outside of Slack:

• 💪 If breastfeeding could go on my resume, these are my skills… (read more)

• Thrilled to announce a grassroots research initiative to broaden, expand, and define what it means to be a mother today… (read more)

• I'm feeling a bit reflective today, folks, so let me take you back to a time, place and industry that shaped me... (read more)

• 🎉 I'm excited to share that after an intense seven-month process, Voronyak Consulting is now officially certified as a woman-owned business… (read more)

• Leadership matters. Emma Hayes took this team from a disappointing showing in the WWC last summer to an Olympic Gold medal. And she just started in May! … (read more)

• ⭐ It's official ⭐ Our group coaching program for employees preparing for parental leave is open for enrollment!… (read more)

• Not a marketer, here. 👋 But a few quick Google searches indicate that the The Society of Working Moms newsletter is doing pretty well!… (read more)

(Okay, that last one is pretty meta… but adding it because it includes a CTA to tell me what you’d like to see in this newsletter!!! Feel free to reply directly here, or leave a comment on the post! What would take this newsletter to the next level?👂️)

🧵THREADS OF NOTE🔒️🧵

• Revamping a LinkedIn profile with the goal of cracking into a different industry (give feedback!)

• Favorite tomato recipes? (share!)

• It’s okay to change your mind (weigh in!)

• And it’s okay to change friends (weigh in!)

• A book launch for this momma! (celebrate!)

• Tips for re-entering the workforce (weigh in!)

• Anyone with LinkedIn Live experience? (help out!)

• Oh Crap! (and OC-adjacent) potty training (share tips!)

• A back-to-school chaos note of encouragement (soak it up!)

• Using mutual connections to approach a hiring manager (wwyd?)

And as always, the entire #accountabilibuddies🔒️ channel is jumping.
🦘 Hop on the goal-setting goodness!

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