HeyJaredHalf Moon Hustle
A newsletter about motherhood, ambition, and living with intention, through the lens of my career in finance and tech.
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How I got promoted to Director as a new mom (opens the original)
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When I came back from maternity leave with my first daughter, I wanted two things: another baby and another promotion.And I had a very specific timeline for both. I wanted my kids to be close in age, so I decided to make a big push at work before hopefully going out on leave again.At that point, I’d been at Pinterest for five years. I’d gotten promoted every 18–24 months, and right before going out on mat leave, I’d been promoted to manager. I wanted to prove to myself that I could stay on that
Don’t get stuck in maternity-leave limbo (opens the original)
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“Should I find the next job now, or stay here until after I have another baby?”A client asked me a version of this question a few weeks ago. Her son was now a toddler, and her current job was relatively comfortable but she wasn’t sure it was where she wanted to spend the next several years. Should she stay through another maternity leave or make a move now, while life was relatively calm? The stakes felt high, and she wanted to avoid making the wrong choice and regretting it later. The decision
Postpartum depression followed me back to work (opens the original)
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When I went in for my six-week postpartum checkup, I passed the mental health screen with flying colors. But the truth is, I lied. Was I feeling tired or having little energy? Obviously, I had a newborn. I was running on five hours of fragmented sleep for weeks. I was breastfeeding a baby and chasing around a toddler and not getting nearly enough calories to replenish myself. I could barely find the energy to shower. Was I feeling sad or miserable? Did bursting into tears unexpectedly count?Was
The mom guilt no one warns you about (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowMy older daughter started TK this week, and I cried almost the entire first day. I realized the phase I’d spent years trying to get through was already over.Transitional kindergarten (TK) is a somewhat new option for four-year-olds in San Francisco, and we were lucky that our local elementary school offered it and we got in.We consciously chose to send her this year, but emotionally, I still thought of elementary school as something that would happen next year, when she turned five.
When the life we wanted took up all the space (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowLast week, my husband and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on a sunset cruise in Hawaii.As we toasted with plastic glasses of prosecco, I felt something I hadn’t felt in a while: lightness. For the first time all week, we weren’t Mom and Dad. We were just us.We were on our family “vacation” and had snuck away for a few hours (shoutout to my husband Mike for booking the cruise and to my in-laws for watching the girls).As the catamaran pulled away from
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