In this raw confession session, Working Mother Experience's Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith shares a piece of her experience balancing the culmination of her Executive MBA, kids and a newborn. 

To be clear, this is not an angry anti-man rant; in fact, Morgan strongly detests those type of rants as they serve no purpose except alienating and othering. Yet, in this relatively short confession session she highlights the importance of acknowledgment, of reaching out to your male or female colleagues, schoolmates or friends who are the primary caregivers to acknowledge what they are managing and experiencing. In doing so, it may help others be truly honest about how they're doing; even better, it might make them feel appreciated and honoured. No, nothing revolutionary, but something near and dear to her heart given some recent experiences over the last few months of a new mother of three. 

We all have an opportunity to reach out to those we care about, to acknowledge their experience and give them space to be frank about how bloody hard it can be raising a small human and balancing other demands. 

Juggling a communications career, parenting, launching a business, and discussing whether ‘balance’ is real.

In this episode, Angela chats with Dominique, a ferociously ambitious mother, communication professional, certified yogi, and now as of her parental leave, a business owner of a gorgeous skin care line.

See Dominique’s beautiful art inspired by fall in Gatineau Park, Ottawa and of course, motherhood, on workingmotherexperience.ca

And check out her skin care brand at dewberryface.com

Today on the podcast we re-connect with Pam Cooper, two-time contributing artist. Her most recent submission, the Mama Bear, is featured on our online gallery.

Pam shares openly about the symbolism of the mama bear, the need to want to protect her young but also herself, but also that primal "RAWR" that exists within her (and we believe all mothers). We talk about the ferocity needed to balance both home and career and whether she would share any advice with her younger mother self (oh you need to listen to find out whether she has any!).

We are so grateful to our listeners and artists. Consider sharing your own story --> www.workingmotherexperience.ca. 

It's been a while listeners! We've missed you and are excited to re-establish a more regular podcasting frequency. 

In this episode, The Working Mother Experience Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith, shares her thoughts on how we define working mothers, the critical importance of tending the hearth, and the impact of how we define 'labour' in the home on our well-being.

Tune in for some potentially thought-provoking and contentious opinions on this episode. Share your thoughts with us. And consider painting your experience of what it means to work and mother. For more information, check out www.workingmotherexperience.ca. 

In this episode we talk to Georgia, who recently moved home to Australia from Canada. We get into the real contrast of mountain life to city life, full time working parenting to being a PhD student, and the very complex layers of the popular Australian preschool show, Bluey, which happens to be set in Georgia’s hometown and now the city she returns to after living nine years in Canada.

We hope you enjoy! Check out Georgia's art on www.workingmotherexperience.ca. 

Articles exploring the cultural significance of Bluey:

https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/bluey-best-kids-tv-show.html

https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/bluey-season3-perfect-kids-show-parents-backlash

On today’s podcast we are talking all things pregnancy. Our 3 guests are multifaceted woman with big goals and we dive into how they  navigate 3 different pregnancy and work scenarios.

Amanda Wagner shares hear journey as an entrepreneur and her choices around when to share her pregnancy with her clients. IG: @theamandawagner

Kate McKenzie speaks about looking for a job while pregnant and how she is helping clients succeed while she protects her mental health and prepares for the arrival of her second child.
IG: @kathryn.mcKenzie

Morgan Craig-Broadwith steps away from the interview seat and shares her ups and downs with her 3rd pregnancy, working full time and completing her Executive MBA. 

Listen in to hear the wisdom and woes of navigating pregnancy as an ambitious woman.

Today on the podcast, I have the special treat of interviewing my momma, Linda Craig. An avid community champion, supporter of the arts, and nature enthusiast, Linda shares openly about her transition from stay-at-home-mothering to working and mothering to becoming an empty nester to retiree. 

We talk about the pressures of working and mothering in the 80s relative to today, the need to carve out your own identity, the importance of taking dedicated time away for yourself (preferably in nature with birds), and the importance of sangas and laughters (you need to listen to the end to get knowledge download).  Plus, you'll enjoy a few unexpected guests throughout the session. 

With great love and appreciation, thank you, momma, for sharing a small piece of who you are and contributing a beautiful piece of art. I hope you (listeners) enjoy listening as much as I loved interviewing and editing. 

Join us on the podcast and reconnect with the incredible Sarah Lerner, Entrepreneur, CFA, MBA, yoga teacher, mother of 5, artist and now poet. Yes, she's amazing. 

In her incredible poem, Sarah gets vulnerable as she shares her journey breaking away from the corporate machine and deciding to put her family first. As we tend to do, our conversation meanders all over the place, but it hones in on the central themes of being honest, showing who you are, and doing what you're intended to do in this one life. Join me for tears, laughs and honest, raw conversation with one my favourite people. 

Working Mother Experience is so excited to be showcasing poetry as a new medium for expression. We can't wait to see where we go. 

Happy International Women's Day! 

Today on the podcast we showcase three of our artists, Asha Prasad, Devon Moody-Graham and Mariane Heroux who honestly share what it means to be a working mother in India, the US and Canada. In this special interview, we delve into the changing tides in relation to being a working mother in our respective countries, our own day-to-day experience and how its unique, and what we think women can do more of. 

International Women's Day 2022 is not only about #breakingthebias, in Canada this year's theme is about Women Inspiring Women. We are so inspired by what our podcast guests and past contributors have managed to accomplish since we last connected (can we say opening a new business, expanding their online teaching and launching a new fashion line?) and have no doubt they will inspire you and many other women around them. 

We hope you enjoy this short and sweet interview with some incredible women who continue to expand the definition of what is possible and showcase to their children, friends, colleagues, and our growing listeners that working mothers are limitless. 

So this may be the third time I'm writing this write-up...you can only imagine the peace I'm feeling right now....anyways....

This podcast celebrates The Working Mother Experience's one-year launch anniversary (yes, we've been cooking for one year already) with some really kick-ass announcements: 

1. We're looking swanky with an official logo and brand courtesy of the amazing Graham Langbroek Design located in Calgary, AB. They did rad job capturing our essence and we hope you love it as much as we do. It's all thanks to....
2. Our newest team member, Amanda Langbroek who has signed on as Artistic Director. You can expect to see this creative, curly-haired beauty to start leading some evening art classes in our near future! 
3. We are celebrating International Women's Day this year with an international podcast featuring past contributors from India, US and Canada!  Make sure you tune in the week of March 8th.

We hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did creating it. A HUGE thank you to our past contributors, our growing listener base and all of you who are in the midst of painting your creative expression of what it means to work and mother. You are helping to make our dreams a reality! 

With love, 
The Working Mother Experience Team