💌 WM Digest | August 7

From the beginning, I knew I wanted The Society of Working Moms to be a place where moms in the thick of it could connect — to other moms, and to resources.

Inside the coaching channel, members find both.

Jess expertly facilitates weekly conversations around topics ranging from having more meaningful conversations to cultivating confidence to tuning out social media noise, equipping us with the self-coaching tools we need to thrive in our daily lives.

So I’m super excited to announce that Jess will be launching a new cohort coaching experience within The Society of Working Moms — The Thriving In Motherhood Collective. The group kicks off on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

In addition to the many benefits of the 6-week cohort, members get an additional 6 months inside the Society of Working Moms Slack community!

(Believe me. You want Jess in your corner!)

Links followed by a ‘🔒️’ are links to the WM Slack community.
You can apply at www.working-moms.com/apply.

If you’d like to re-up or manage your membership, you can do so at this link. (If you’re a returning member, please forward me your confirmation email and I’ll reactivate your Slack access.)

🌐COMMUNITY NOTES🌐

• Welcome to our newest members: Amanda, Mackenzie, Kate, Cassy and Erin! 👋 

• Our monthly workshops are lined up through February! Weigh in🔒️ on future topics and vote via emoji poll on speaker demographics!

• Another emoji poll for those of you in the biz-owners channel… vote on a time for our first-ever consultants call!🔒️

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

• We had a LOVELY author chat with Annie Lyons last Thursday to discuss The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett.

  • If you know of another book club that likes to host authors, I couldn’t recommend an Annie Lyons book enough! Her books are quite charming, and she is equally so! (And hint: she does author chats for free 🎁 as long as there are no ticket sales!)

• ICYMI, our August pick for the low-stakes book club is How to Keep House While Drowning, a quick read/listen about managing care tasks when you are neurodivergent/grieving/depressed/chronically ill/ETC.

  • We will almost certainly NOT have an author chat this time around (unless someone has a connection to KC Davis and can make an intro! 😏) but join the chat in Slack🔒️!

• Thanks for everyone’s patience while we restructured Slack last week. Here is a new, handy-dandy channel guide to help you on your way!

• We also gave the website a slight refresh over the weekend! What do you think? For those of you already in Slack, does it sum it all up accurately? For those of you not, what questions do you still have? 🤔 

🗓️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)

• TBD: August Financial Workshop

👉️MEMBER RECS👈️

This LLC formation offering for moms, this children’s table with storage for sensory bins or an art station, this [not-Bezos-owned-but-rather-Black-woman-founded] platform for tracking your reading, this resource for women who want to increase their financial literacy and wealth, this free AI-powered interview prep, this free Slack community for women in sales, this sweet kids’ book about being connected to our loved ones, this “composure triangle” framework for acing an interview, this new and highly digestible newsletter on productivity, and these $6* foam slides for kids (*at least at the time of writing this!)

🚨🚨🚨 NEW NEWSLETTER SECTION ALERT — 🤝WARM LEADS🤝 

• Account Executive @ Reward Gateway (PD / Intro Thread)

• Frontend Software Engineer @ Spot AI (PD / Intro Thread)

(More of this, please! Jobs at mom-friendly workplaces are always welcome on the #job-board🔒️, of course, but a warm lead is 👩‍🍳👌.)

💡LINKEDIN HIGHLIGHTS💡

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

• "Raise your hand if you use ChatGPT regularly," I asked a room full of attendees at a recent conference. Surprisingly, … (read more)

• Some days are filled with all the emotions....and I have already had all the feels today at 7:49am… (read more)

• Woah! When did it become August? I’m slightly behind on sharing the behind-the-scenes of the Studio’s August artwork… (read more)

• TFW social selling converts to lots (and lots) of inbound leads. 🥇🥇🥇 Story time! Here's what happened: … (read more)

• If you're a working mom - I see you. Working moms are meant to: 🌟 Feel good. 🌟 Feel confident. 🌟 Feel pride. 🌟 Feel supported. 🌟 Feel powerful. (read more)

(Use the #like-my-post channel🔒️ to get featured here and get some WM love on your post!)

🧵THREADS OF NOTE🔒️🧵

• This community win that literally made Kate cry and reminded her why she does this (ilyasm, seriously!)

• LinkedIn Live experience? (weigh in!)

• Tips to stop puppy biting? (share tips!)

• Experimenting with new routines (support!)

• Job potentially on the chopping block? (wwyd?)

• First college app submitted! (woo hoo/boo hoo!)

• Sartorial lessons from a two year old (take notes!)

• Meghan was on the Autism Dad podcast! (support!)

• First college application submitted! (woo hoo/boo hoo!)

• A letter from mom of a tween to moms of littles (get moved!)

• Making the choice to step down from the daycare board (support!)

• A shitty (figuratively AND literally) first daycare drop off (laugh/cry!)

• A sweet moment of kid connection following a hard summer (well up!)

And the entire #accountabilibuddies channel remains on fire! Let’s keep getting after those goals!! 💪

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