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This Week Is for the Working Moms (opens the original)
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When I went back to work after my first daughter was born, I was the boss.I was leading a nonprofit organization. I set the meeting schedule. I approved the budget. If anyone in that building had the power to make a return from maternity leave work, it was me.And I still did not know how to do it.I had a pump. I had a cooler bag that looked like it was headed to a tailgate, plus what felt like 20 additional bags to carry all the stuff. I had a calendar I controlled and still managed to fill with
Why I Keep Saying Yes to Students (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago I stood in a classroom at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and talked to a room of MBA students about tariffs and what it looks like to run a small business when the rules change while your goods are on the water. I’ve been on campus multiple times this year. I truly believe the classroom is one of the most important places to tell my story. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jY-k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
The Advice Was Loud. It Was Also Wrong. (opens the original)
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I started this company in 2013 in my living room, tracking orders in chalk on the wall. I would make a tick mark on the board and stand back and look at the wall with so much pride.Almost 14 years later we are still a team of four. We still sell bags and apparel for new and working parents. The chalk is gone and we have much fancier systems now. Somewhere in the middle of those years I made a decision that almost every person told me not to make.I started talking to my customers about policy.Lac
Nine Hundred Days (opens the original)
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Maddy made herself dinner last week. Ramen. From the packet. I stood in the doorway of my own kitchen doing math I did not want to do.She turns sixteen this school year. If she leaves for college at eighteen, I have roughly two and a half years left of her sleeping down the hall. Nine hundred days, give or take. I have two and a half years to teach her everything.So I started the list in my head, the way you do at ten at night when you should be asleep. She has never called to make her own docto
Celebrations Last a Season. Support Systems Should Last a Lifetime. (opens the original)
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Every year around this time I get the same question: “Wait, is it Breastfeeding Week or Breastfeeding Month?”The answer is yes. Both. And the season actually stretches well past August, so consider this your map all the way through September.World Breastfeeding Week kicks things off August 1 through 7. It’s the global one, coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action alongside WHO and UNICEF, observed in more than 120 countries since 1992. This year’s theme is “Breastfeeding for a
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