Intentional Conversations & Whiteboards: Managing Work and Family with Jessie & Brendan
Navigating a fast-paced career, higher education, board governance, and ultra-marathon training is a massive feat on its own. Add two young kids into the mix, and keeping a dual-career family on the tracks requires more than just goodwill. It takes real systems, radical transparency, and constantly…
The Economic Value of Unpaid Work: Qiulae Wong on Systemic Political Reform
The traditional eight-hour workday was built for an industrial era that simply no longer reflects how modern families live or work. While workplaces slowly adapt to hybrid setups, the systemic pressure on working parents. And the long-term financial hit taken by mothers, remains largely unaddressed…
Care, Education, and Equity: Jan Tinetti’s Vision for Working Families
Despite progress in workplace policy, modern mothers still face a pervasive culture that minimises their professional capabilities, limits career progression, and leaves them carrying the default parenting load.
The systemic barriers facing working parents aren't just financial, they're deeply emb…
Believing in Your Bigness: How High-Achieving Mothers Step Into Their Power with Kat Francis
So many experienced, high-achieving women return from parental leave only to find themselves treated less like a strategic asset and more like a workplace liability. Faced with rigid expectations and zero room for growth, it’s easy to slip into survival mode, take a demotion, or quietly settle for …
Rethinking the 40-Hour Workweek: Technology, Flexibility, and Parenting with Emily Blumenthal
When a mother is the primary earner, the assumption that she will automatically be the default parent creates friction at work and at home. But when a partner actively steps up to share the load, systemic workplace cultures often penalise active dads for requesting the exact same flexibility extend…
From Site to School Run: Breaking Construction Norms with Hannah & Matt McHugh
When a mother steps back into her career after years of carrying the primary parenting load, it isn't just about "getting back to work", it's about catching up on lost momentum. But making space for a mother's career to thrive requires more than just goodwill; it demands that fathers step in as ful…
Challenging the Linear Path: Flexibility, Choices, and Wealth with Rhiannon McKinnon
Most traditional financial models and retirement calculators assume a linear, unbroken 40-hour workweek from age 20 to 65. But for mothers navigating parental leave, reduced hours, or career shifts, this outdated framework fails to reflect the reality of modern working life.
In this episode, Emma i…
Matrescence, Mental Load, and the Return-to-Work Reality with Carina O'Brien
Many working mothers drop down to three or four days a week in search of balance, only to find themselves cramming full-time workloads into reduced hours, and taking a 20% pay and superannuation hit in the process. When you're managing work emails during unpaid days off with kids underfoot, part-ti…
EP 37 | Educational Series 2026 | The Challenges of Returning to Paid Work with Emma Mclean
In this episode of The Postpartum Season 2026 Educational Series, Emma Mclean, executive coach and founder of Works for Everyone, joins me to discuss returning to paid work after parental leave, the challenges of combining parenting and a career, and practical strategies to make the transition a li…
The Fatherhood Forfeit: Why Men Are the Missing Lever in Gender Equity with Michael Ray
While corporate policies slowly adapt to support working mothers, the motherhood penalty continues to drive the lion's share of the persistent gender pay gap. True equity remains out of reach because we have treated caregiving as something written into chromosomes rather than a capability shaped by…
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