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- 💌 WM Digest | July 30
💌 WM Digest | July 30
I just posted yesterday about my frustration over our new day care center opening being delayed due to construction... and then I realized I’m over here doing the same thing. 🙊
Kate Westlund Tovsen
July 30, 2024
I just posted yesterday in our #shout-it-out channel about my frustration over our new day care center opening being delayed due to construction… and then I realized I’m over here doing the same thing. 🙊
🚧 We are under construction in Slack. 🚧
My goal is that those who are in there already won’t even notice this. Over the rest of the week, quiet channels will be folded into similar (and more active) channels, channel names will get tweaked, a few new channels may be in the works… and a handy dandy guide is coming everyone’s way.
That said, I didn’t want to change things as soon as a bunch of new people came through the door. So to those of you who’ve applied and have been patiently waiting in the wings… THANK YOU!
(I have not forgotten about you! In fact, we are all excited to meet you! Our intros channel has been eerily quiet the last week!)
Like Happy Days Learning Center, we will be back open for [new] business early next week. 👷♀️
In the meantime, keep on Slacking (current members), check out an event (prospective members), and thank you for your patience (everyone)!
Links followed by a ‘🔒️’ are links to the WM Slack community.
You can apply at www.working-moms.com/apply.
🌐COMMUNITY NOTES🌐
Covered the gist of it in the opening! Thank you all for bearing with me!
The new #accountabilibuddies🔒️ space is so cute and supportive. 🥹
This week’s group coaching convo is all around having better conversations. Join Coach Jess Ringgenberg on Wednesday at 12:00 CT in the #coaches-corner🔒️ for your weekly group hug!
🗓️UPCOMING EVENTS🗓️
Summer programming is on a quasi summer break. 😎 If you have a session you’d like to present yourself, we are taking suggestions over in #present-a-session🔒️!
👉️MEMBER RECS👈️
This free workshop on communicating your value in a job search, this free 3-day challenge for creating a career in tech, this tip for soon-to-be kindergarten mamas, these smart business cards, this tip for creating a “to-DON’T” list, this adorbs movie on PBS Kids, and this data-focused newsletter for parents.
🔦MEMBER SPOTLIGHT🔦
🔗 Katie Huey | Client Success Coordinator. ICF Certified Coach. Facilitator. Writer. Helping leaders find the words for difficult life experiences.
👨👩👦 Kid: one 2 year old
📍 Location: Northern Colorado
💗 Favorite thing about the WM Slack community: Women need one another - this feels very supportive
🏔️ Upcoming travel: Heading to Telluride in the fall - accepting all tips / recommendations
📚️ Reading right now: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
💪 Recent win: Coaching certification through the ICF
🎯 Goals for the upcoming year: Finish manuscript to self-publish
💡LINKEDIN HIGHLIGHTS💡
Here’s what some of our members are chattering about outside of Slack:
At 18, I was paid under the table to be a dishwasher at a tiny Bistro in England… (read more)
Last week, I read many Intro posts from women I admire, so I’m tagging along!… (read more)
A single viral post about the shortcomings of parental leave - inspired by my husband's most recent, horrific experience - got me posting regularly on LinkedIn… (read more)
It was a great morning speaking to the MORE Magazine interns about mastering negotiation, valuing our worth, and having the strength to be vulnerable to show up as our true selves.… (read more)
(Use the #like-my-post channel🔒️ to get featured here and get some WM love on your post!)
🧵THREADS OF NOTE🔒️🧵
New business wins! (cheers!)
Bath toy gizmo recs? (weigh in!)
Canva template tips (share ‘em!)
Passenger princess for the win (yay!)
Fun with Adobe Firefly (ooh and ahh!)
Saying ‘no’ and feeling guilty (support!)
Do or don’t: working with family (advise!)
“Please tell me this will all get better.” (uplift!)
Talking to a boss about scope creep (weigh in!)
Soft launching an IVF pregnancy (hard celebrate!)
11-hour road trip with 11-month old (share/get tips!)
To business card or not to business card? (weigh in!)
Drawing a boundary when you’re stretched thin (win!)
More LinkedIn best practices food for thought (dig in!)
Got a good job and having trouble celebrating (support!)
Tips for administering oral antibiotics to a babe? (weigh in!)
Pure-woo-coaching-manifestation-goodness (get inspired!)
Reframing “what if” to a thing of possibility, not fear (drink it in!)
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