Startup Parent

By Sarah K Peck

Business

What's Startup Parent about?

If you're growing a business, starting a business, or figuring out the madness of entrepreneurship and you're thinking about having kids, this podcast is for you. We go in-depth with founders and entrepreneurial parents about what it really takes to have babies, grow businesses, and stay sane. And get a little bit of sleep.

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Startup Parent episodes:

02.18.2020 Open House Q/A Call: A Replay Of Our Facebook Live Event #141 — All your questions, answered. Last week, we hosted an Open House in our Facebook Group, and I’m sharing the replay here on the podcast. If you haven't requested access yet, we have an amazing group of women gathered ...
02.17.2020 Building Masterminds and Facilitating Communities: An Inside Look At How I Design Them #140 — How to design and facilitate group programs. In today’s episode, we talk all about the ways I think about building mastermind programs, facilitating community, and bringing people together. Yes, I’ve overthought all of it—to the tiniest degree. In ...
02.16.2020 B-School: Take Your Business + Marketing To The Next Level Marie Forleo is a powerhouse—she's a #1 NYT Bestselling author, one of Oprah's Super-Soul Sunday picks, and the founder of B-School, an online marketing and business training program. She has taught B-School for over a decade and has more than ...
02.15.2020 The 2020 Accountability Group Do you need some social accountability this year? I have the group for you. I have a 10-month accountability group. We gather together once a month to check in on our goals, stay focused, and keep ourselves accountable to the ...
02.12.2020 Preview: Ask Sarah Episode #003 — Content Marketing & Not 'Doing It All' Online How do you prioritize what to do when it comes to online marketing? From social media to content creation to newsletters—it's a mad, mad world. Today I do a case study and deep dive into one specific business challenge. Meghan ...
02.10.2020 Parenting Logistics: A Nightmare Of Daily Tasks #139 — Lately I’ve been fielding a lot of questions from people about what to expect in the shift from non-parenting to the parenting world. Personally, I find it really challenging when people smile at you and say things like, ...
02.03.2020 Toddler Germs—Why Does My Kid Keep Getting Sick? #138 — Why does my kid keep getting sick? In the first few years of having kids, it can seem like the snotty, runny noses are never ending. In a way, that’s true. Young children are building their immune systems, ...
01.27.2020 Broadway and Pregnant — Tanya Birl-Torres #137 — Broadway and Pregnant A friend of mine reached out a few weeks after the birth of her second baby girl and said, “I need to tell you my birth story.” “Absolutely,” I said, “What do you want to ...
01.20.2020 My Entire World Changed Overnight — Priti Krishtel #136 — Not everyone has exactly nine months to plan ahead and prepare for motherhood — sometimes it can happen overnight, and other times it can take years. The process of adopting a child can be long, laborious and fraught ...
01.15.2020 Preview: Ask Sarah Episode #002 — Having More Children & Personal Family Questions How do you respond when someone asks you if you’re having more children? You asked me a really personal question on today’s episode: Does your family feel complete now that you’ve had two kids? Do you know how many children ...
01.13.2020 Motherhood, Minimalism, and Doing Less #135 — Is minimalism and motherhood possible? Cary Fortin, who many of you have heard before on the podcast, is joining us again today to talk about minimalism, motherhood, and decluttering. Cary is a writer, a storyteller and a designer, ...
01.06.2020 Careers Twists and Turns — Unconventional Career Paths #134 — Careers Twists and Turns When Brea Starmer was seven months pregnant while working at a startup, she was laid off. In her third trimester, she started a consulting practice and interviewed for jobs—quickly starting her own consulting practice ...
12.30.2019 Are You An Entrepreneur? An Inside Peek At The Wise Women’s Council #133 — What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? One of the things I keep learning from gathering groups of working women together is how broad and diverse the realm of entrepreneurship is. Common culture would have you believe ...
12.18.2019 SECRET PODCAST ALERT: Ask Sarah Episode #001 — My Routines & How They've Changed With Children Did you know we have a brand-new podcast? Ask Sarah: The Podcast is a place for you to ask anything you'd like—about your life, my life, business, parenting, or whatever is on your mind. This is a teaser of our ...
12.16.2019 Update #4: How To Streamline Your Business: New Minibook #132 — How To Streamline Your Business: New Minibook Last time we talked, I was in the middle of a midstream flop. Sometimes forward progress doesn’t look like progress at all—because other things take a spot on the front burner. ...
11.18.2019 Update #3: Short and Sweet #131 — What happens to the dud weeks? Weeks can go by where it feels like no progress is being made. I’m back for a short and sweet update, and I’m a little nervous to share that I haven’t really ...
11.04.2019 Update #2: Goal Setting and Writing Progress Update #130 — Goal Setting, Making Progress, and Minibook Updates It's almost the midpoint of the quarter and I want to check in with progress notes. My goal this Fall has been to step back from the weekly recording to gain ...
10.14.2019 Update #1: Make Space, Opportunities Fill #129 — If you feel like you don't have enough time for it all, you might be right. I’m tired of all the advice to hustle harder and put better productivity systems in place. I’m great at systems and great ...
10.01.2019 The Next 90 Days #128 — What's it going to take? As business owners—and parents!—we’ve got limited time. SUCH LIMITED TIME. It’s crazy how fast the days fly by and how maddening it is to slot in all of the family logistics across work ...
09.30.2019 Pivot or Pause? Inside A Hard Decision #127 — Should I stop podcasting? As we geared up for Fall, I felt the urge to stop this podcast for a while. To be honest, it scared me a little—I couldn’t stop, could I? So I asked the group ...
09.16.2019 Got A Business or Parenting Challenge? Let Me Help Every week, I get questions from listeners about business, life, parenting—and more. And I want to answer them! From building a company vision to dealing with burnout to negotiations in your partnership, I’m willing to go there and share everything ...
09.09.2019 Entrepreneurs, Burnout, and Breaks: Why Resting (and Pivoting) is Essential #125 — What's next? We’re back from summer hiatus, and it was wonderful. Better than expected, honestly. I didn’t take enough time to rest after either of my babies, and this break, while three years delayed, was everything. In today’s ...
07.29.2019 Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime #124 — Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime Summer break. As a child there was no sweeter words in the English language. With its promises of long, warm, lazy, school-free ...
07.22.2019 How to Focus When You Feel Totally Overwhelmed or Unclear #123 — How to Focus When You Feel Totally Overwhelmed or Unclear You wake up in the morning, look at your to-do list, and find that you have 27 things on it. Then throughout the day, somehow projects just keep ...
07.15.2019 How to Win More Business, Make More Friends, and Get More Money, aka: How to Listen Better #122 — How to Win More Business, Make More Friends, and Get More Money, aka: How to Listen Better What happens when we listen fully? Without interjecting with our own opinions or experiences? Without asserting a best possible outcome or ...
07.08.2019 Redefining Startup Success: Shutting Down A Lucrative Startup With Allie Siarto #121 — Redefining Startup Success: Shutting Down A Lucrative Startup What happens when your vision of success changes while you're building a wildly "successful" company? Allie Siarto built an incredibly successful company by all of today’s metrics and standards. She ...
07.01.2019 Beyond Mom: Exploring and Nourishing Our Non-Mother Selves With Randi Zinn #120 — Beyond Mom: Exploring and Nourishing Our Non-Mother Selves What does it look like to take your work from the corporate world to the freelance world and begin the path of entrepreneurship? How do you take the piecemeal career ...
06.24.2019 The Myth of Equal Partnership in Parenting With Darcy Lockman #119 — The Myth of Equal Partnership in Parenting Why is it that the burden of childcare, children and the home is so unequally dumped on women's shoulders? Where did this come from? Why is it happening and what can ...
06.17.2019 If You Work Hard Enough You Can Do Anything, Except Get Pregnant: A Journey Through Infertility With Lucy Knisley #118 — If You Work Hard Enough You Can Do Anything, Except Get Pregnant: A Journey Through Infertility What happens when the medical establishment ignores your concerns, complaints and symptoms? When your doctor tells you everything is normal even though ...
06.10.2019 Ambitious Entrepreneurship + Parenthood: When Two Moms Co-Found a Startup With Sonia Chang #117 — Ambitious Entrepreneurship + Parenthood: When Two Moms Co-Found a Startup What happens when you and your co-founder are both mothers? Can you modify your work schedule without altering your ambition? What type of project is worthy of your ...
06.03.2019 Crossing the Threshold to Motherhood: Ceremony, Ritual, and Healing Rites of Passage With Kari Azuma #116 — Crossing the Threshold to Motherhood: Ceremony, Ritual, and Healing Rites of Passage How do you prepare for birthing another child when your first birth experience was traumatic? Can new mothers be realistically expected to process and integrate their ...
05.27.2019 The Myths of Miscarriage, The Lean In Fallacy, and Mothers’ Rage With Katherine Goldstein #115 — The Myths of Miscarriage, The Lean In Fallacy, and Mothers’ Rage What happens when you get pregnant as you are trying to launch a podcast about bias in the workplace against mothers? Why is the dominant cultural story ...
05.20.2019 From Unexplained Infertility to Planning a Small Business Maternity Leave With Reina Pomeroy #114 — From Unexplained Infertility to Planning a Small Business Maternity Leave How can or should entrepreneurship change in order to meet our changing life needs? What does it look like to be a business owner as a person without ...
05.13.2019 How to Raise Successful Children: Trust and Respect in Parenting, School, and Business With Esther Wojcicki #113 — How to Raise Successful Children: Trust and Respect in Parenting, School, and Business Why is so much parenting advice seemingly in direct conflict with others? How do we determine who is correct? How do we make these emotional ...
05.06.2019 Universal Paid Family Leave By 2020: One of the Women Pushing for Our Rights With Fabiola Santiago #112 — Universal Paid Family Leave By 2020: Meet One of the Women Pushing for Our Rights Why is the United States the only developed nation without any guaranteed family leave? How did we fall so far behind Europe, Canada ...
04.29.2019 Data Driven Parenting: An Economist on Breastfeeding, Sleep Training, and Vaccinations With Emily Oster #111 — Data Driven Parenting: An Economist on Breastfeeding, Sleep Training, and Vaccinations Why is so much parenting advice seemingly in direct conflict with others? How do we determine who is correct? How do we make these emotional decisions for ...
04.22.2019 Redefining Motherhood: Matrescence and Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Mother With Dr. Alexandra Sacks #110 — Redefining Motherhood: Matrescence and Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Mother What do we call women who experience emotions ranging from completee joy to anxiety to ambivalence in new motherhood? In the words of Dr. Alexandra Sacks: totally ...
04.15.2019 Both Co-Founders Pregnant? How Pregnancy Can Move Business Forward With Elena Rue and Catherine Orr #109 — Co-founders Elena Rue and Catherine Orr on being pregnant at the same time The two co-founders were both already parents. They’d done the pregnancy thing before. Then they found out they both were pregnant again, and at the ...
04.08.2019 Optimize Your Fertility + Heal Your Body With Lisa Hendrickson-Jack #108 — Optimizing your fertility as the gateway to healing your body As young women, we’re taught about our menstrual cycle in relationship to two things: our periods and pregnancy. In an attempt to avoid pregnancy, fix irregular cycles, or ...
04.01.2019 April Preview: Amy Schumer, Women and Doctors, and Being the Expert of Your Body With Sarah Peck and Cary Fortin #107 — April Preview: Amy Schumer, Women and Doctors, and Being the Expert of Your Body This week Sarah and guest Cary Fortin break down some of the most powerful takeaways from recent podcast guests and what we’re looking forward ...
03.25.2019 Healing from Trauma and Grief: One Woman’s Journey and Story With Iman Gatti #106 — Healing from Trauma and Grief: One Woman’s Journey and Story At six years old, Iman Gatti witnessed her father brutally murder her mother. Her father was sentenced to 25 years in prison and Iman, now parentless, spent the ...
03.18.2019 Disruption: Managing Your Career With Whitney Johnson #105—Disruption: Managing Your Career Whenever I feel stuck or I’m looking for a mentor, career-wise, one of my favorite things to do is to identify people whose careers I really admire, and watch them from afar. I study how they ...
03.11.2019 The First Weeks of Parenting: What Nobody Tells You With Vanessa Van Edwards #104 — The First Weeks of Parenting: What Nobody Tells You Why is it that so many parenting books begin with some version of this little, deceptive, awful phrase? They all say this one dang thing: After the first few ...
03.04.2019 How To Hire A Nanny With Co-Host Anna Frandsen #103 — How To Hire A Nanny Why is childcare so overwhelming? Childcare can be so hard! When I started looking for a nanny after my second son was born, I didn’t know how to begin thinking about the search. ...
02.25.2019 A Case of the Mondays? Or Maybe It's Motherhood #102 — It’s not you, it’s February. My husband and I have a joke every year that it’s not you—it’s February. February can be rough, especially for people in the Northern Hemisphere when winter, doldrums, lack of sunlight, and all-around ...
02.18.2019 How Motherhood Makes You Better at Work With Amy Henderson #101 — Wait, Motherhood Makes You Better at Work? How will motherhood change me? Will I be different? Will I end up on the “mommy track” and never want to work again? These are questions that people ask themselves when ...
02.14.2019 What I've Learned From Recording 100 Episodes of the Podcast — Special Episode #100 #100 — What I've Learned From Recording 100 Episodes of the Podcast It surprised me that we’re here at the hundredth episode. I couldn’t have told you back in the early summer of 2017, when I began to brainstorm the ...
02.11.2019 From Music and Brain Scientist to Brand New Career — Christine Koh Episode #099 #099 — From Music and Brain Scientist to Brand New Career with Christine Koh Christine Koh has a fascinating backstory: previously, she was a music and brain scientist who was on track to become a professor after a long career ...
02.07.2019 The Wise Women’s Council — Episode #098 #098 — Entrepreneurship, motherhood, and figuring it all out What does it take to be a parent and an entrepreneur in today’s work world? It takes a lot—and it takes a village. Today I talk about the Wise Women’s Council, ...
02.04.2019 Baby Update: Welcome Back, Sarah — Episode #097 #097 — Baby Update: Welcome Back, Sarah It’s been about four months since I gave birth to my baby boy, and now we’ve got two littles in our household. A toddler and a baby and a business is a handful, ...

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Startup Parent episodes:

Open House Q/A Call: A Replay Of Our Facebook Live Event

Building Masterminds and Facilitating Communities: An Inside Look At How I Design Them

B-School: Take Your Business + Marketing To The Next Level

The 2020 Accountability Group

Preview: Ask Sarah Episode #003 — Content Marketing & Not 'Doing It All' Online

Parenting Logistics: A Nightmare Of Daily Tasks

Toddler Germs—Why Does My Kid Keep Getting Sick?

Broadway and Pregnant — Tanya Birl-Torres

My Entire World Changed Overnight — Priti Krishtel

Preview: Ask Sarah Episode #002 — Having More Children & Personal Family Questions

Motherhood, Minimalism, and Doing Less

Careers Twists and Turns — Unconventional Career Paths

Are You An Entrepreneur? An Inside Peek At The Wise Women’s Council

SECRET PODCAST ALERT: Ask Sarah Episode #001 — My Routines & How They've Changed With Children

Update #4: How To Streamline Your Business: New Minibook

Update #3: Short and Sweet

Update #2: Goal Setting and Writing Progress Update

Update #1: Make Space, Opportunities Fill

The Next 90 Days

Pivot or Pause? Inside A Hard Decision

Got A Business or Parenting Challenge? Let Me Help

Entrepreneurs, Burnout, and Breaks: Why Resting (and Pivoting) is Essential

Summer Break? Where Do the Kids Go While Their Parents Work and Other Thoughts On Summertime

How to Focus When You Feel Totally Overwhelmed or Unclear

How to Win More Business, Make More Friends, and Get More Money, aka: How to Listen Better

Redefining Startup Success: Shutting Down A Lucrative Startup With Allie Siarto

Beyond Mom: Exploring and Nourishing Our Non-Mother Selves With Randi Zinn

The Myth of Equal Partnership in Parenting With Darcy Lockman

If You Work Hard Enough You Can Do Anything, Except Get Pregnant: A Journey Through Infertility With Lucy Knisley

Ambitious Entrepreneurship + Parenthood: When Two Moms Co-Found a Startup With Sonia Chang

Crossing the Threshold to Motherhood: Ceremony, Ritual, and Healing Rites of Passage With Kari Azuma

The Myths of Miscarriage, The Lean In Fallacy, and Mothers’ Rage With Katherine Goldstein

From Unexplained Infertility to Planning a Small Business Maternity Leave With Reina Pomeroy

How to Raise Successful Children: Trust and Respect in Parenting, School, and Business With Esther Wojcicki

Universal Paid Family Leave By 2020: One of the Women Pushing for Our Rights With Fabiola Santiago

Data Driven Parenting: An Economist on Breastfeeding, Sleep Training, and Vaccinations With Emily Oster

Redefining Motherhood: Matrescence and Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Mother With Dr. Alexandra Sacks

Both Co-Founders Pregnant? How Pregnancy Can Move Business Forward With Elena Rue and Catherine Orr

Optimize Your Fertility + Heal Your Body With Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

April Preview: Amy Schumer, Women and Doctors, and Being the Expert of Your Body With Sarah Peck and Cary Fortin

Healing from Trauma and Grief: One Woman’s Journey and Story With Iman Gatti

Disruption: Managing Your Career With Whitney Johnson

The First Weeks of Parenting: What Nobody Tells You With Vanessa Van Edwards

How To Hire A Nanny With Co-Host Anna Frandsen

A Case of the Mondays? Or Maybe It's Motherhood

How Motherhood Makes You Better at Work With Amy Henderson

What I've Learned From Recording 100 Episodes of the Podcast — Special Episode #100

From Music and Brain Scientist to Brand New Career — Christine Koh Episode #099

The Wise Women’s Council — Episode #098

Baby Update: Welcome Back, Sarah — Episode #097