Leadership & Motherhood

Leadership & Motherhood

Leadership and Motherhood reframes motherhood as a powerful leadership development experience. Featuring candid conversations and practical insight, the show challenges outdated workplace norms and equips women to lead with confidence, clarity, and impact. Hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath, former tech exec turned full-time mom, recovering perfectionist and workaholic, and certified executive coach.

Episodes

How Executive Moms Can Ditch the Pressure and Actually Enjoy Your Summer

June 11, 2026 • 19 mins
Summer is a unique season for working moms.  While social media reminds us that we "only get 18 summers" with our kids, many executive moms are simultaneously leading teams, managing projects, running businesses, navigating camp schedules, and juggling childcare logistics. The result? A lot of pressure to make every moment count. In this final episode of Season 2, Leanna explores how high-achieving women can approach summer ...
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How to Advocate for Yourself at Work to Get the Promotion You Deserve as a High Achieving Woman - with Maya Sharfi

May 28, 2026 • 45 mins
In this episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with career and executive coach Maya Sharfi to explore what it truly means to grow your career in alignment with your life, not at the expense of it. Maya shares how she supports high-achieving women, from manager to executive levels, in navigating promotions, career pivots, and redefining success. Drawing on her unique background in design and women’s empowerment, she brings ...
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Questioning the Narratives We’ve Inherited: Motherhood, Identity, and Why Women’s Stories Deserve to Be Told - with Anna Malaika Tubbs

May 21, 2026 • 72 mins
In this powerful and perspective-shifting episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with Anna Malaika Tubbs, renowned author, speaker, and advocate for examining the narratives that shape how we see ourselves and each other. Anna shares her global upbringing and how it shaped her understanding of identity, belonging, and cultural storytelling. Together, they explore the importance of elevating voices and histories that have been ov...
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Creating More Balance in Motherhood: The Power of Values-Aligned Boundaries and Intentional Career Decisions - with Lauren Cannata

May 14, 2026 • 54 mins
In this episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with Lauren Cannata, a leader in the influencer marketing industry and mother of two, for a conversation about motherhood, career growth, work-life balance, and the intentional decisions that help high-achieving women create more sustainable and fulfilling lives. Lauren shares how becoming a mother reshaped the way she approaches ambition, productivity, leadership, and success. Inst...
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High Achieving Women and Mental Health: The Hidden Cost of Holding It All Together - with Dr. Kelly Dries

May 7, 2026 • 48 mins
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, this episode creates space for a conversation that often goes unseen, especially among high achieving women. Leanna sits down with Dr. Kelly Dries, a strengths-based leadership coach, to explore the complex and often hidden relationship between ambition, success, and mental health. Together, they unpack what it really looks like to be high functioning on the outside while struggling inter...
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What a Nail in My Tire Taught Me About Resilience, Gratitude, and Empowerment

May 2, 2026 • 10 mins
What do you do when something goes wrong at the worst possible moment? In this episode, I'm sharing a story from earlier this week — a flat tire, pouring rain, and a coaching mastermind I didn’t want to be late to — and the one sentence that kept me from completely spiraling. That sentence: "This is my curriculum for today." It sounds simple, but the shift it creates is profound. When we hit an unexpected obstac...
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From Overwhelmed to Empowered: Why High Achieving Women Feel Stuck and How to Take Back Control

April 30, 2026 • 16 mins
What if the reason you feel overwhelmed isn’t just about your circumstances, but also how you’re thinking about them? In this episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath explores the shift from feeling stuck and out of control to becoming truly empowered in your life and leadership. Drawing from her own experience as a corporate executive and new mom, she shares how easy it is to fall into a pattern of overwhelm, even when you&rsqu...
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Three High Achieving Women on Choosing Themselves in Motherhood and Leadership - with Annemieke Rice and Andrea Palmer

April 23, 2026 • 54 mins
This episode is a candid, thought-provoking conversation with three executive mom friends: Leanna Laskey McGrath, Annemieke Rice, and Andrea Palmer, on what happens when high-achieving women can no longer rely on the same habits, identities, and definitions of success that once drove them. Together, they explore the shift from effort-based value to experience-based leadership, and why motherhood doesn’t diminish ambition, bu...
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Designing a Life You Actually Enjoy While Pursuing Big Goals: How High Achieving Mothers Can Work Hard and Still Love Their Lives - with Camille Jaramis

April 16, 2026 • 39 mins
What if enjoying your life wasn’t about changing your circumstances, but changing how you think about them? In this episode, Executive Coach Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with Camille Jaramis, an Australian entrepreneur, full-time professional, and mom, who is intentionally building a life that reflects what matters most to her.  She works very hard. She’s building a platform to support parents. She’s bui...
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The Missing Piece in Women’s Health: Why Information Alone Doesn’t Drive Change - with MD + Life Coach Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb

April 9, 2026 • 39 mins
We’ve all heard plenty of advice when it comes to our health: what to eat, how to move, how to take care of ourselves. And for many high-achieving women, the challenge isn’t a lack of information… it’s actually following through. In this episode, Leanna is joined by Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb, a triple board-certified physician and certified life coach, to explore the missing piece in women’s health. We ...
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Why High Achieving Women Never Feel Like They’re Doing Enough (And How to Change It)

April 2, 2026 • 11 mins
If you’ve ever ended a full, productive day and still thought “it’s not enough” or “I should’ve done more,” this episode is for you. In this solo episode, Executive Coach Leanna Laskey McGrath unpacks one of the most common (and invisible) patterns she sees in high-achieving women: the constant feeling of falling short, even when you’re doing everything right. The root issue? Most h...
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Endometriosis Awareness Month: My Journey to Answers – and the Doctor Who Changed Everything – with Dr. Nicole Donnellan

March 26, 2026 • 54 mins
So many women live with debilitating pain that no test can explain. This is Leanna’s story and her journey to finding answers and solutions. Despite multiple ER visits, specialist referrals, scans, and procedures, everything continued to come back “normal.” With no clear answers, she began to question her own experience—and eventually, like so many women, started to accept the pain as something she might ha...
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Choosing Alignment Over External Expectations: The Health Crisis & Quiet Whisper That Changed Everything – with Nemisha Patel Owen

March 19, 2026 • 43 mins
In this episode, executive coach Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with mindset and meditation coach Nemisha Patel Owen to explore what it really means to live an aligned life. After 18 years climbing the corporate ladder in a highly male-dominated engineering environment at NATS, the UK’s air traffic control provider, Nemisha appeared successful by every traditional measure: an MBA, promotions, and leadership roles in a prest...
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Redefining Ambition & Success Across Generations - with Loretta Stagnitto and Annie Ricci

March 12, 2026 • 66 mins
In this special episode of Leadership and Motherhood honoring Women’s History Month, Leanna sits down with executive leadership coach Loretta Stagnitto and her daughter, fractional marketing executive Annie Ricci, for a powerful cross-generational conversation about ambition, identity, and defining success on your own terms. Loretta shares her journey from corporate VP in Silicon Valley to building her own executive coaching...
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Motherhood as a Catalyst for Career and Leadership Growth - with Rebecca Blacker

March 5, 2026 • 39 mins
In this first interview on Leadership and Motherhood, executive coach Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with top-performing NYC real estate leader Rebecca Blacker to explore the real challenges high-achieving executive women and mothers face. From people pleasing and mom guilt to delegation struggles and confidence at work, this conversation dives deep into the tension between building a successful career and being the present, enga...
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Introducing Leadership and Motherhood!

March 1, 2026 • 17 mins
Welcome to the very first episode of Leadership and Motherhood! After 2.5 years and 153 episodes, The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast has evolved into something bigger. In this episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath, Executive Coach for Moms, shares why she made the intentional decision to end her previous show. It was not because she stopped loving podcasting, but because she felt called to create something more aligned, more expansive...
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Leadership & Motherhood Trailer

March 1, 2026 • 1 min
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The Final Episode of The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast

January 22, 2026 • 12 mins
You are listening to the final episode of The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast as we know it. It’s the end of an era! A huge thank you to everyone who has made this podcast such a huge success and this journey so much fun. Listen to hear a little bit about what’s next, and in the meantime, here are three things you can do right now: Follow the show to receive future updates. Rate and review the show on Apple and Spo...
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Decide Who You Want to Be Amidst the Chaos: A Mindset Tool for Ambitious Women to Stay Focused on Your Goals

January 15, 2026 • 17 mins
This episode is a grounding conversation for high-achieving women who want to stay ambitious without becoming emotionally hijacked by everything happening in the world. Leanna explores how to remain informed without burning out your nervous system, why timing and intentionality matter when consuming news, and how external chaos can quietly pull you off track from goals that deeply matter to you. She introduces the mindset shift of ...
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Why Ambitious Working Moms Struggle to Stick With Their Goals When Life Gets Busy — and What Actually Helps

January 8, 2026 • 24 mins
When life gets busy, even the most successful executive moms can find themselves quietly drifting away from their goals, not because they don’t care, but because the strategies they’ve been taught are missing some important mindset components. In this episode, executive coach Leanna breaks down why motivation fades when life gets full, what’s actually happening beneath the surface, and what truly helps you stay co...
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