💌 WM Digest | June 4, 2024

Thanks for your grace while I took a week off from the digest! Not one but two short holiday weeks in a row (dictated by day care schedules, of course!) threw me for a loop and I decided instead of slapping something together two days late, I’d just pack this edition full of double the WM goodness!

That said, this week’s events have gotten the short shrift on promo. We had a small but mighty showing at yesterday’s speed networking event (next one is 6/20 in the evening! 👇️ ) and…

TODAY at noon CT — join us for our book club author chat with L’Oreal Thompson Payton! Newsletter subscribers get in free — use code ‘DIGEST’ to get your ticket.

And happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈 We see, honor, and support those in our community who are LGBTQIA themselves and/or raising LGBTQIA kiddos!

🫶 Kate

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🌐 COMMUNITY NOTES 🌐

• Welcome to our newest members: Suha and Silvia 👋 

• We had two great coaching sessions last week🔒️ on the invisible load. (Hint: the June 14 workshop provides some related tools!)

• For the month of June, coaching will be Wednesdays at noon CT.

• A friendly reminder that the #pitch-a-session🔒️ channel exists!

  • Have an upcoming workshop you want to, well, workshop? Want to share a cool new tool you learned about? Want to facilitate a journaling exercise to ground the group? Want to host a weekly YouTube cardio dance sesh for fun (slash accountability!)? The possibilities are endless!

• If you were a beta tester, please see your DMs for one final beta-related survey! (And a reminder of a “thank you” promo that I dropped in the beta testing channel!)

🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS 🗓️
(Newly added or updated events are highlighted. Coaching is limited to WM Slack group members, but all others are open to the public!)

• Tue, June 4 @ 12:00PM CT - Author Chat: L’Oreal Thompson Payton (RSVP)

• Wed, June 5 @ 12:00PM CT - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

• Wed, June 12 @ 12:00PM CT - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

• Friday, June 14 @ 12:00PM CT - June Workshop: Get 8 Hours Back (RSVP)

• Wed, June 19 @ 12:00PM CT - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

• Thurs, June 20 @ 8:30PM CT - Working Mom Speed Networking (RSVP)

Our June sponsor is Coexist, the app that helps you and your partner effortlessly share tasks, plan meals, collaborate on lists, and even give each other kudos. Coexist is available worldwide on Android and iOS.

The WM community gets an exclusive 15% off the annual plan on iOS when you sign up for a two-week free trial before June 30th with the code WORKINGMOMS15.

Let's build a future where managing home life feels lighter.

🧵 THREADS OF NOTE 🧵 

• Last edition we celebrated our first WM baby born; this time we’re celebrating our first WM “baby” graduating from hs! (celebrate!🔒️)

• Evening coaching sessions? (give feedback!🔒️)

• Self-advocacy at work re: raises/bonuses, title raise, etc. (weigh in!🔒️)

• Anyone willing to critique some poetry? (sign up!🔒️)

• Themed “dinner and a movie” nights (get inspired!🔒️)

• First day of daycare blues (support!🔒️)

• First day of husband back to work win (celebrate!🔒️)

• How to quiet negative self-talk in a kid (weigh in!🔒️)

• Night training a 4 yo (weigh in!🔒️)

• Taking the leap and starting a passion project (pep talk!🔒️)

• How are you caring for yourself as a mom? (weigh in!🔒️)

• Followed by… a major self-care win to inspire you (start plotting!🔒️)

Member Recs:

• Virtual enrichment classes for kiddos K-5

• This song that has been engineered to make babies happy (here’s an hour-long loop if you’re desperate!)

• This podcast about matrescence

• Why you should think twice before posting that cute photo of your kid online

• Nursing bras for the IBTC

Select Member Posts on LinkedIn:
(Trying something new here — sharing just the x-posted content from the channels as direct links to LinkedIn — yay or nay??)

• Mothers have assimilated into a system that wasn’t built for them.

• Let Katie show you how much she can get done with some of her mom-hours!

• Iman is a creative leader with a can-do attitude!

Misc.:

• Job openings at Melinda French Gates’s Pivotal Ventures 👀 

🔦 NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 🔦 

🔗 Alicia Hughes | TEDx Speaker 🎇 Author of Sparking Up Leadership ~ Igniting your Influence with Sparkle & Shine 🎇 10+ years in virtual leadership 🎇20+ years in education 🎇 Passionate about creating strong virtual cultures
👨‍👩‍👧 Kids: 6 (Poppy), 15 (Haven), and 16 (Rentz)
📍 Location: Charleston, SC
💗 Favorite thing about WM: Making new connections and learning from other's journeys!
🧁 Favorite food: Anything that is terrible for you....... think cupcakes, pasta, cheese, bread, Twix bar, chips and queso. UGH! Why can't I crave mangos and kale?!?
📚️ Reading right now: Amy Porterfield's Two Week Notice. It is GREAT for women bouncing into their own thing (like many of us here!)
🎥 Favorite movie: Shawshank Redemption — "Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies." I live and breathe this (especially lately!)
🐕️ Pets: Blitzen the Silver Lab who came from Santa almost 9 years ago
🌊 Favorite way to relax: Anything with salt water....... beach or boat thank you!
🎯 Goal for the upcoming year: To launch a course and make a few dollars!

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