{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People","title":"The Ambition Paradox: Why Working Mothers Are Still Expected to Choose (with Dr. Anne Welsh)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2614,"description":"“Yes, your kids matter. Yes, your job matters. But you matter, too.” - Dr. Anne Welsh\nWhat if the answer to working motherhood isn’t about getting better at doing everything?\nMaybe it starts with remembering that you’re a person in the mix and you matter, too.\nIn this episode of So Much To Say: A Legal Podcast For People, Megan Senese and Jennifer Ramsey are joined by Dr. Anne Welsh, clinical psychologist, executive coach, and author of Ambitious Mother: From Surviving to Thriving in Your Career and at Home.\nAnne was one of the podcast’s very first guests, and she’s back to talk about the book that grew from sentences scribbled in pickup lines, gymnastics waiting rooms, early mornings, and whatever five-minute pockets she could find to write.\nTogether, they unpack what Anne calls the “ambition paradox”: the message that being committed to your career somehow takes away from being a good mother, and that being a good mother requires sacrificing parts of yourself for the sake of work or other people.\nThey talk about the mounting expectations placed on mothers, why work can actually enrich our lives as parents, the perfectionism and people-pleasing so many women internalize, and what workplaces could do differently to support people with full lives outside of work.\nUltimately, Anne offers a reminder that applies whether you're a mother, a parent, or neither: you don't have to sacrifice everything in your life to be successful.\nYou’ll hear about:\nWhy working motherhood can feel like an impossible, zero-sum game\nHow Anne wrote her book five minutes at a time\nThe perfectionism, people-pleasing, and pretending that affect women far beyond motherhood\nWhy having something meaningful outside of work can make us more productive and resilient\nHow expectations of mothers have intensified over the past two decades\nWhy parental leave is only the beginning of the support working parents need\nHow law firms can better plan for caregiving without placing the burden on child-free...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xX4mv8ABkxdZYlNqyYMtgty7eVFkp64CDgWzGR1qEOg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MWU1/ODk3ZDY4NjYwY2Fh/OTE1NzYyZjdlMThl/YzFhNy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}