💌 WM Digest | July 23

The wm Premium Slack free trial era has come to an end! 🥲 

So if you’re in the Slack, you can ignore the prompts to upgrade your space! I’ll take care of that in the next couple of weeks. (In the meantime, you’ll notice some changes to features, namely only being able to see content from the last 90 days.)

And if you’re NOT in the Slack yet, may I offer you the following reviews that have come through in the last few weeks?

So come play with us 👯‍♀️ and let the wonderfully supportive community that is the Society of Working Moms envelope you in a big, virtual hug!

(psssst… if you apply today, you get a sizeable discount off your first month!)

I hope to see you in there soon!

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

🌐COMMUNITY NOTES🌐

• Welcome to our newest Slack members, Colynn, Natalia, Daisy, Laura, Katie, and Dina! 👋

• New channels: #accountabilibuddies🔒️, #food-and-recipes🔒️

• ICYMI, here is a recap🔒️ for the Power Hour events series that wrapped last Friday.

  • We had more than 60 unique folks attend across the 4 events and Sloane, Jess, and Missy provided such value in their jam-packed,lin hour-long sessions!

• This week’s group coaching convo is around “catastrophizing,” or imagining the worst possible outcome of an event or action. Join Coach Jess on Wednesday at 12:00 CT for all the love and support inside the #coaches-corner🔒️.

• We are changing our membership platform in favor of one that will help automate my workload. This will not change dues amounts but will cause a brief disruption as far as access. I promise ✋ to hold your hand through the whole thing.

  • More to come in the #announcements channel in the next week or so!

🗓️UPCOMING EVENTS🗓️

Many of our events are free and open to the public. Highlighted events are newly added this week.

• Wednesday, July 24 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

• Wednesday, July 24 @ 1:00 - 2:00 PM CT - Creative Command: Design Best Practices (RSVP)

• Friday, July 26 @ 10:30 - 11:00 AM CT - New & Prospective Member Orientation (RSVP)

• Wednesday, July 31 @ 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT - Group Coaching (RSVP)

• Thursday, Aug 1 @ 9:00 - 10:00 AM CT - Author Chat: Annie Lyons (RSVP)

• Monday, Aug 5 @ 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT - Working Mom Speed Networking “Coffee Break” (RSVP)

👉️MEMBER RECS👈️

New: This inclusive can’t-miss dinner party series, this virtual “dinner party” for grief support, this list of companies’ tenure requirements before granting parental leave, this habit-tracker-meets-tamagotchi app, this bus tour in support of baby-feeding parents, this documentary about periods (streaming on Peacock), and these consumer guides from the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Also, my friend Alex (a.k.a. Empathic Egg) is on a fact-finding mission. If you’d like to have a [free] chat about that ever elusive work-life balance with a career coach for parents, slide into his DMs!

🔦MEMBER SPOTLIGHT🔦

THIS COULD BE YOU!!!?

Here are some quick stats from our 70+ group members, to give you an idea of our member demographics.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦Kids: Our kids range from “currently cooking” to “grown and flown” and everything in between (however, our “toddlers” channel is the most active with 22 members)
📍Location: We are technically international, with a couple of members in Australia 🦘. But we have the strongest representation in Minnesota 🛶, Georgia 🍑, Texas 🤠, Colorado 🏔️, New York 🗽, and California ☀️.
💗Favorite thing about the WM Slack community: See newsletter intro. Need we say more?!
😽Pets: A fair amount of us have fur babies, too, and we even have a “just for fun” pets channel dedicated to talking about them.
📚️Reading right now: This group reads (and listens to!) a little of this, a little of that! Our low-stakes book club just finished a fun fiction book (The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett) and is about to start a practical self-help book (How to Keep House While Drowning). Some other recent reads from the group: Essentialism, Demon Copperhead, Mother Brain, The Coddling of the American Mind… 🤓 
🧘‍♀️Favorite ways to relax: Recently cited ways to relax: walking, baking, yoga, making art, reading/audiobooks, watching TV, gaming, hammocking, knitting, scrolling social media
🎯Goals for the upcoming year: So many goals in this group! We have a new accountability channel where we share and check in on weekly goals, plus coach Jess always equips us with tools in our weekly coaching sessions to help us manage that mental clutter and get after it! 💪 

💡LINKEDIN HIGHLIGHTS💡

• It is WILD to me that the standard for most people going through the first trimester is to keep it a secret… (read more)

• Today I was fortunate enough to be part of a really important conversation about regret… (read more)

• During my first six years as a working mother, I constantly replayed in my head all the ways I fell short… (read more)

• If you work remotely, be sure your workspace brings you joy, calm, and efficiency. Here are a few ways to be sure you thrive! … (read more)

• “How do you stay on top of emerging tech trends?” This question came from the audience during the Women Leaders Innovating Productivity and Performance panel… (read more)

• Excited to be a founding member of the mompark™ and link arms with Diana Carter to change the narrative for working moms… (read more)

• I’m a week early for National Breastfeeding Awareness Month but I want to highlight two of my favorite products from two amazing companies! … (read more)

Want to be featured here (plus get some love from the WM community on your posts)? Use the #like-my-post channel🔒️!

🧵THREADS OF NOTE🔒️🧵

• How to build habits without getting overwhelmed with the tracking of them (share your thoughts!)

• Toxic metals in tampons (wtaf?!)

• Baby’s first solid foods (om nom nom!)

• A long day with a couple of firsts (support!)

• How do you define “restfulness”? (weigh in!)

• ISO a principal, someone on a school board, a superintendent or curriculum director for an interview (make an intro!)

• What do do about bad behaviors in good kids (advise!)

• Slack UX on the desktop vs. app vs. browser (weigh in!)

• Looking for a more absorbent diaper brand (make a rec!)

• She landed a job after 11 months of looking!!!!!!! (cheer on!)

• Saved some money with DIY Play-doh party favors (woohoo!)

• How to answer “tell me about yourself” in an interview (advise!)

• 20 weeks pregnant and looking for FT roles… WWYD? (weigh in!)

• ISO a freelancer who specializes in SEO/paid ads (throw your hat in!)

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