💌 WM Digest | May 14, 2024

Happy Mother's Day Week! (A special workshop for you! ✨)

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Kate Westlund Tovsen
May 14, 2024

I hope you all had wonderful Mother’s Days!

We celebrated last weekend, while my husband was in town. Some people are taken aback when I note that my husband wasn’t around for Mother’s Day, but as this post from Alex Egeler on LinkedIn notes, showing appreciation should be a year-round endeavor, not a one-day endeavor.

And our house hit the market yesterday, which means we need a house to move into, which means my husband has to build said house! So I’m more than happy to shoo him off so we can finally “skip to the good part.”

Anyway, I felt immense pressure to show up on social media on Sunday as a “person who supports mothers” but ended up not posting anything at all. To the point above, I hope it’s understood through my actions and words the other 364 days of the year that I support women, especially working women, and most especially working moms.

And I’m incredibly grateful for this group of working moms. Thank you. 💝 

🧪 Trying out something new, where links followed by a ‘🔒️’ are what is only available to WM Slack members. Is this helpful to readers in the larger WM ecosystem who don’t have the Slack access? 🤔 

But also…

🌐 COMMUNITY NOTES 🌐

🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS 🗓️
(Newly added or updated events are highlighted.)

  • Wed, May 15 @ 11:00AM - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Thurs, May 16 @ 6:30PM - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Thurs, May 16 @ 8:30PM - 9:00PM CT - Speed Networking (RSVP)

  • Fri, May 17, 10:00AM - 11:00AM - Workshop - Mother’s Vision: Establishing a Blueprint for the Mom you Want to Be (RSVP)

  • Wed, May 22 @ 11:00AM - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Wed, May 29 @ 11:00AM - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Thurs, May 30 @ 6:30PM - Coaching Convo with Jess (RSVP)

  • Mon, June 3 @ 11:30AM - Working Mom Speed Networking (RSVP)

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

🧵 THREADS OF NOTE 🧵 

  • Resume review for a 360-marketer (lend a hand!🔒️)

  • Structuring summer for school-aged kids (weigh in!🔒️)

  • I HATE VOMIT! (weigh in!🔒️)

  • Best platform for launching a course/workbook? (weigh in!🔒️)

  • How to help an ADHD kiddo gain independence in self-care tasks (weigh in!🔒️)

  • How to put in notice as a recovering people pleaser (weigh in!🔒️)

  • WWYD? Unprovoked biting from a toddler (weigh in!🔒️)

  • Healthy dinner not one but two nights in a row! (celebrate!🔒️)

  • Sandwich caregiving and guilt (support!🔒️)

  • A tearful 1:1 with a manager (support!🔒️), turned into this “more than just a mom” LinkedIn post!

Misc. shared within the community:

🔦 NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 🔦 

🔗 Nicole Lenzen | Coach: Leadership, Parental Leave + Transition, and Career | Strategy & Innovation Consultant | L&D Facilitator | Mother
👩‍👧 Kids: daughter, Sofia is 2 y/o
📍 Location: physically in Asheville, NC | heart still in Brooklyn, NY
💗 Favorite thing about WM: The openness and supportive nature of the members (and Kate's excellent community management!)
🦪 Favorite Food: Raw oysters w/ a splash of lemon juice and shaved horseradish
🥾 Upcoming Trip: Hiking to some cabins in the mountains with my daughter and my sister
📚️ Reading Right Now: Instructions for Traveling West by Joy Sullivan, Good Inside by Dr. Becky, The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Riso/Hudson, and Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
💃 Hidden (at least recently) talent: Swing dancing (Lindy hop + solo jazz)
🌊 Favorite Way to Relax: Meditating in the natural hot springs at Esalen with the waves crashing below on the coast in Big Sur, CA
👩‍💼 Goal for the Coming Year: secure a corporate client(s) interested in offering my parental leave coaching/consulting offering as a benefit to their expecting parents + managers

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🫶 Kate