For the mom building her career and leading her family with intention

Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode:Apple | Spotify | GetMomReady.comYou know that feeling when your work brain is carrying layoffs, strategy shifts, inbox fires, team decisions, and approximately 47 tabs of pressure…and then you’re supposed to close your laptop and immediately become the calm, joyful bedtime mom?Same.In this episode, Holly sits down with Lindsey Swedick, a startup executive, brand marketer, and mom of two, for a conversation about work, motherhood, burnout, identity, marriage, and the strange emotional whiplash of leading at work and leading at home.Lindsey’s career has taken her from an anti-trafficking NGO in India to brands like FEED, LOLA, Coterie, Calibrate, and now Perelel Health. But this conversation isn’t just about an impressive resume. It’s about what happens when your work has always been tied to purpose, and then motherhood changes the way you understand ambition, capacity, and what actually matters.When the Work That Once Lit You Up Starts Burning You OutLindsey shared about the season that finally pushed her to step away from corporate life and start consulting.It wasn’t because she stopped loving work. It was because the pace, pressure, constant pivots, and emotional weight of leadership became too much.She was leading brand and communications during a volatile season, navigating layoffs, shifting market demands, and internal messaging while also raising two little kids. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the spark that had always driven her work started to fade.That part felt so relatable.Because sometimes burnout doesn’t look like quitting on your ambition. Sometimes it looks like realizing you can’t keep giving every part of yourself to a job and still have anything left for your actual life.You Can Try Something New Without It Being ForeverOne of the most refreshing parts of Lindsey’s story was how she talked about career pivots.Earlier in her career, every move felt massive. Like each decision was somehow deciding the entire rest of her life.But with time, motherhood, and a few hard seasons behind her, she started to see it differently.You can try something.You can change your mind.You can do something for six months and reassess.You can make a move because it’s what you need for this season, not because it has to define every season after it.Honestly, that feels like a word for so many moms who are trying to figure out what work is supposed to look like now.This Is Just a Hard SeasonWhen Holly asked Lindsey what she does differently now as a working mom, Lindsey didn’t offer a perfect six-step system or a magical productivity hack.She said it’s more of a mental reframe.This is a hard season.Not forever. Not her whole identity. Not proof that she’s failing.Just a hard season.And whew. That’ll preach.Because some days you feel like you’re failing as a mom, a leader, a wife, a friend, and a human person who would maybe enjoy drinking water at some point. And then the next day, you feel like maybe you’re doing okay.Both can be true.The season can be hard, and you can still be doing a really good job.Your Job Is Not Your Whole IdentityLindsey also named something that so many high-achieving moms know deep down but still have to relearn over and over again:It’s just a job.That doesn’t mean the work doesn’t matter. It doesn’t mean you don’t care. It doesn’t mean you don’t give your best.But it does mean your company is not your identity.Your performance review is not your worth.Your title is not your whole story.The thing keeping you up tonight probably won’t be the thing you remember in ten years.Motherhood has a way of forcing that reordering. Not because work stops mattering, but because suddenly your life is bigger than what happens in a meeting.The Sunday Meeting That Might Save Your WeekOne of the most practical takeaways from this episode was Lindsey and her husband Nick’s Sunday night meeting.After the kids go to bed, they sit down with calendars, laptops, mail, invites, schedules, and anything else they need to sort through. They talk through the week ahead, the month ahead, and even the next six months.They also use that time to talk about their kids, family rhythms, childcare, school, work travel, and anything that could otherwise