In this episode of Mother of Podcasts, we sit down with Aarushi Goel, an Indian mom and Senior Security Analyst at Amazon Web Services, who has been living in the US for over a decade.Aarushi opens up about discovering her surprise pregnancy during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, how she navigated those uncertain times, and what it was like to go through pregnancy far away from family. We dive into the realities of maternity benefits in the US, balancing a high-pressure tech job with new motherhood, and how she’s raising her child in a country so different from her own upbringing.This episode is an honest conversation about cultural shifts, identity, corporate motherhood, and what it truly means to be a working mom abroad.