I asked ChatGPT to write me a resume... for being a mom.

I thought it would be funny. Then it started listing things like executive leadership, strategic planning, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, budget oversight, and event production. I sat there thinking, "Well... crap. It's not wrong."

This episode is for every mom who's ever looked at a resume gap and thought, How do I explain the last decade of keeping tiny humans alive while simultaneously running fundraisers, balancing budgets, leading volunteer armies, learning five new software platforms, and somehow being in charge of the volunteer appreciation banquet... that the volunteers also have to plan?

I talk about my years as a PTO president, how I accidentally turned volunteering into a full-time unpaid career, why schools survive on what I lovingly call "volun-told" labor, and how COVID forced me to realize I had completely lost myself in doing all the things.

It's funny because it's true. But underneath the laughs is something I think we need to start talking about. The work moms do counts. The skills are real. And maybe it's time we stopped pretending they don't belong on a resume.

If you've ever been laughed out of an interview because you stayed home with your kids, or you've ever wondered where all those years went, pull up a chair. I promise we'll laugh about it... because otherwise we might cry.