The 43 Percent

The 43 Percent

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The 43 Percent episodes

  • Johns Hopkins Child Development Specialist Susan Magsamen on Being a Child Expert as a Parent, and Why It's Never Too Late to Have an Impact
    Susan Magsamen is the Executive Director of the International Arts and Mind Lab, Brain Science Institute, at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode she digs deep into both her personal experience and her professional expertise on everything from why our society doesn't value caregiving to ways for moms to stop beating themselves up.
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    1 hr 3 min
  • Pepperlane Founder and CEO Sharon Kan on Motherhood as a Benefit, not a Liability
    Sharon Kan has created jobs for herself throughout her career, and with her newest startup Pepperlane (a platform that helps mothers start micro-businesses) she says she is calling out the elephant in the room—motherhood—and celebrating it. Here we hear how she herself juggled motherhood and startup life, and why she thinks tapping into the talents of mothers is a genius move.
    49 min
  • Linda Zecher on Taking Time Out in the Middle
    Linda Zecher went from being one of the only women geophysicists in the country to leadership roles at some of the best-known tech companies, including Oracle and Microsoft. Here, she reflects on her career path, and navigating through the 3 years she took off when her son was in middle school. 
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    42 min
  • Meet Claudia Reuter: Mom, Startup CEO, and Techstars Managing Director
    Claudia Reuter left the workforce for 3 years when she had kids and re-entered it in an unusual way: by starting a company. Like a lot of moms balancing family and work she spent many hours on important phone calls, worried her kids would burst in. Here she tells the story of one fateful call, made from the closet of her seven-year-old. It's just the sort of story you can expect to hear on this show, which moves past leaning in or leaning out to tell the more complex stories of mothers creating full lives.
    6 min

About The 43 Percent

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43 percent of women who have kids leave the workforce at some point. In this series of fireside chats with inspiring women, spanning a variety of industries and experiences, host Claudia Reuter aims…