You have been performing the script of the good working mother for too long. What if you stopped?
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Working Mom Overwhelm: Everything Matters, and Not All of It Gets to Stay
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When did you stop being one of the people you hold?
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Every episode, newest first. Explore the research behind these conversations: the mental load, working mom burnout, and returning to work after maternity leave.
Overwhelm.
★ Newest Episode
Working Mom Overwhelm: Everything Matters, and Not All of It Gets to Stay
Keep, Drop, Delegate, Temper. How to sort your mental load by what you refuse to trade.
Mental
Load.
Load.
You’re not burned out, you’re over-responsible
You can rest your body and still never release your mind.
Guilt.
Why working moms feel guilty when their kid is not happy, even when they did nothing wrong
Sadness and guilt are two different feelings. Knowing which one you’re carrying changes how heavy it feels.
Identity.
Why you still feel not good enough no matter what you achieve
More proof was never going to fix it. The problem was never the evidence, it was the lens.
Beliefs.
The stories you learned about yourself and how they’re still deciding for you
A label doesn’t have to be false to run your life. It only has to be treated as the whole story.
Identity.
When you finally get time alone and don’t know who you are anymore
The space you asked for finally shows up, and you have no idea what to do in it.
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Perfect.
Why working moms can’t stop trying to be perfect and the cost of it
Perfectionism isn’t about standards. It’s a shield. And what it keeps out also keeps you in.
Boundaries
Why Boundary-Setting Advice for Working Moms Doesn’t Work
You don’t need a better script. You need a system update.
People-Pleasing
Why High-Performing Women Can’t Stop People-Pleasing (And Why It Leads to Resentment)
You’re not bad at boundaries. You’re just running a pattern you were never taught to see.
Burnout
The burnout nobody sees because it looks like accomplishment
That chronic stress and exhaustion you’ve been calling productivity? Let’s talk about what’s actually happening.
Chapters
Why you are not supposed to “do it all” and how to choose your next chapter instead
Reclaim your time by letting go of the working mom pressure to perform every role at once.
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What This Is, and Why Now
Ninety seconds on who this is for and what you won’t hear here.
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Who are you when there’s nobody to take care of?
Your first step toward going Unscripted starts here.The mental load takes up the space where you used to be. Download the 5 questions I use with the women I coach to help them offload the invisible weight and remember who she was before the roles took over.
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Hosted by Andi Salcedo
“I believe the greatest gift we can give our children is a mother who is fully alive. I created this space to help us stop performing the roles we were handed and start authoring the lives we actually want.”More about Andi →