Startup Parent
Parent, founder, leader... tired? If you're starting a business or figuring out entrepreneurship AND you've got kids, this podcast is for you. Whether you're thinking about having kids or you're in the mayhem already, we're here to support working parents. Our mission? To tell the truth about motherhood, fatherhood, being a parent, and to inspire us to imagine new ways of working. So maybe we can get a little more sleep.
Episodes
December 20, 2023 • 16 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Culture Change Starts With Stories
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/021-sixth-gear-ability/
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December 6, 2023 • 16 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Most of us have a sixth gear we don't know about.
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/021-sixth-gea...
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November 15, 2023 • 16 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
If you downloaded this episode before November 15th, you might have heard an episode of the Career Can Do podcast ra...
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November 1, 2023 • 60 mins
#225 — Birth is broken in America. It’s rooted in patriarchy, white supremacy, and a managed care system that pushes profits over people. This medical model provides substandard care that persists because it’s always been done that way—not because it’s rooted in evidence. In fact, plenty of evidence suggests that the managed care model causes widespread problems that affects every aspect of our society today.
Under this medical mod...
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October 18, 2023 • 16 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
Plan.
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/019-...
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October 11, 2023 • 17 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
Plan.
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/018-...
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October 4, 2023 • 15 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Plans Are Important. Things Rarely Go According to
Plan.
Show Notes: https://startupparent.com/017-...
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September 27, 2023 • 60 mins
#223 — If you struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, or you prioritize everyone else before yourself, chances are you’ve been subjected to “Good Girl Brainwashing.”
Lisa Carmen Wang, founder of the Bad Bitch Empire, joins Sarah K Peck to talk about good girl brainwashing, learning to speak up, and challenging societal norms that limit women's power. In this episode, Lisa shares how to identify the messages that keep women qu...
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September 20, 2023 • 14 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Life is Not All Hard Labor.
Show Notes: startupparent.com/016
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September 6, 2023 • 54 mins
#221 — Who does your body belong to?
In this episode of the Startup Parent podcast, host Sarah K. Peck is joined by author and educator Amanda Montei to talk about Amanda’s latest book, Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control. Together, they delve deep into a conversation about societal norms, feminism, and the complicated relationships women have with our bodies.
Amanda doesn’t shy away from talking about topics ot...
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August 23, 2023 • 15 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: Work-Life Balance is a Myth.
Show Notes: startupparent.com/015
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August 16, 2023 • 43 mins
#219 [REPLAY] — What if you’re a total night owl? For today’s guest, she loves to stay up late. Her best hours of work are often in the wee hours, often way past midnight. “I love sleeping in until 11 am or 12 pm or even later,” she said, and she built a very successful 30-person, award-winning digital strategy organization company this way. Then she had a kid.
Most parenting blogs will tell you that kids are early risers, that you...
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August 2, 2023 • 54 mins
#218 [REPLAY] — Danielle LaPorte’s intuitive nature informs her parenting style, and she shares her spirituality with her son. In this interview, host Sarah K Peck asks her to talk about her parenting journey. She shares that it began with an overwhelming desire to be a mom, that, when it arrived, she immediately followed even though it didn’t fit into her predetermined life plan.
Danielle’s next-level understanding of consciousnes...
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July 26, 2023 • 89 mins
#217 — Ali Shapiro’s relationship with her health and wellness began when she battled cancer as a teenager. At the time, chemotherapy and radiation saved her life, but they left her health far worse in the process.
In the decades since, Ali sought understand health and wellness so that she could do more living. To make that happen, she had to step outside of the mainstream paradigms that influence our health choices.
In her wellnes...
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July 19, 2023 • 16 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: In My Experience.
Show Notes: startupparent.com/014
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July 12, 2023 • 76 mins
#215 — When fashion mogul Sarah LaFleur was diagnosed with a “unicornuate uterus” she knew that becoming a mother was not going to be an easy journey. She didn’t know that her path to parenthood would include IVF, surrogacy, and ultimately, three babies born in six weeks — but she wouldn’t change a thing.
In this episode of the Startup Parent podcast, Sarah K Peck interviews Sarah LaFleur, founder of fashion company MM LaFleur. The...
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June 28, 2023 • 70 mins
#214 — Beth Berry became a mother for the first time at 17, but it wasn’t until she got married that she understood the injustices around motherhood. That’s when she realized the system was rigged, and it wasn’t in her favor.
In this episode of the Startup Parent podcast, Sarah K Peck interviews author and change maker Beth Berry about her experiences in motherhood. Today she’s the mom of four kids, ages 16, 18, 22 and 28 at the ti...
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June 21, 2023 • 12 mins
When we first launched The Startup Parent Podcast in 2017, we did a series on some of our core values and guiding principles. Many of these core values have stood the test of time and helped to guide us over the last five years. Please enjoy revisiting this core values episode from earlier in the life of the podcast.
Core Value: In My Experience.
Show Notes: startupparent.com/013
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#212 — Parenting can be lonely, especially as a founder, and it’s even lonelier if we don’t have space to talk about all of its complexity
In this episode of the Startup Parent podcast, Sarah K Peck talks to professional climber and author Majka Burhardt about her book, "More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood," and her experiences becoming a mother of twins while founding her nonprofit, Legado.
Sarah and Majka discuss t...
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#211 — Momfluencers have taken social media by storm, with their picture-perfect posts and relatable content garnering millions of followers. But what is a momfluencer, exactly?
According to Sara Petersen, a researcher and author of “Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture”, a momfluencer is someone who has monetized their social media presence using motherhood as the defining feature. T...
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