Episodes

In today's quick episode, Leanna is sharing gratitude for her listeners, guests, and supporters, and one tip for enjoying the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Full transcript available here. Connect with Leanna here.

Today, Leanna is joined by Jess Kitt, who is talking about her experience in her first executive role, and her recent transition out of it. They explore navigating tough waters in a male-dominated company when our values and the organization’s values don’t align. Should we abandon our authentic selves to be successful in the organization, or stay true to ourselves and potentially risk our jobs? How much time and energy do we spend questioning ourselves and experiencing imposter syndrome, assumin...

The holiday season is upon us! Are you feeling excitement, or dread, or a little bit of both? Holidays can be tough for moms, who often take on the brunt of the mental load. And while of course we love making the holidays magical for our families, it can be really draining trying to balance all the magic making and holiday events on top of everything else in our day-to-day lives. Today, we welcome Emily Rose Hardy to the podcast! Emily is a Motherhood Mindset Coach and host of The Worthy Moth...

Today’s episode is a quick update on The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast, including: Please share your feedback! As we’re planning episodes for 2024, we’d love to incorporate listener feedback. Tell us what you want to hear more about in written or voice format on the podcast website. The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast will be moving to biweekly episodes in November & December during the holiday season. Coming soon: a new email list to keep in touch with and engage our listeners, and a Jan...

Today’s guest is Emily Siegel, host of the Connected Mom Life Podcast and creator of the Mom Friends community. She has relocated multiple times and has therefore had to create her village in each place. She’s learned a lot through these experience and she shares some of her valuable insights about making friends and building community in motherhood. Emily and Leanna discuss some of the mindsets holding us back from true connection, and she also shares some practical advice for actions to tak...

In today’s episode, Leanna is talking with Erica Music, an athlete, educator, mother, speaker, and author, who shares her inspiring journey of resilience. Erica's story emphasizes the importance of building a strong support network and setting and achieving goals as a working mother. She challenges the belief that we must do everything alone and highlights the power of intention and focus on a goal. Erica and Leanna explore the theme of resilience and how it can empower women in their dual roles...

Content warning: miscarriage and pregnancy loss October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month, and today Leanna is having a beautiful conversation with Kami Wernimont, certified life coach, miscarriage doula, and Founder & President of Let the Light In (LTLI). LTLI is a new nonprofit to support women through their journeys with miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Kami shares her own story, which includes two losses after her first two children, and a long journey to healing. Sh...

Dr. Miranda Walichowski joins Leanna for a highly impactful conversation for working moms. Miranda does it all — she is a business owner, a professor, a mother of 5, a devoted wife and woman of faith, and a competitive powerlifter. Trying to balance all of this might feel leave one feeling regularly stuck in stress and overwhelm, but Miranda has found a way to juggle it all while genuinely enjoying her life. She shares how she does it with some tangible strategies, like focusing on the highes...

This week, Leanna coaches Allie, who has been feeling stuck in her career and comes to the conversation looking for strategies for how to advance her career. But through the coaching conversation, she discovers that her definition of success and how she "should" be living is very much informed externally, and it may be time for her to rewrite her own definition of what success means to her. They discuss leadership, worthiness, success, and so much more in this incredibly powerful coaching conver...

In this special back to school bonus episode, Leanna and her young daughter talk about the challenges of the transition to preschool and what helped to make the drop off process a lot smoother. Knowing there are children and caretakers out there struggling with this too, we hope this episode is helpful to share both solidarity and ideas to help make the transition easier for everyone. Connect with Leanna here. Full transcript available here.

Imposter Syndrome. It’s something that so many of us experience, especially women. It’s that crushing feeling that everybody’s going to find out we’re a fraud. That belief that we were put in our positions by accident or by luck, and if only everybody knew how flawed we are, our whole world would come crashing down. So we put on our tough skin and we “fake it til we make it” and we hustle and work ourselves into the ground and keep running so fast so nobody can catch us and find out who we reall...

As ambitious women and moms, we’re often our toughest critics. We can be so hard on ourselves, and often we attribute this “being tough on ourselves” to how we’ve gotten to where we are today, making it a more difficult thought pattern to want to change. While it may be true that being tough on ourselves and beating ourselves up when we don’t meet our own (often unrealistic) expectations may have been a factor in our success in the past, it’s not the only way to reach our goals. And one could...

Leanna interviews Kate Griffin, Vice President of a management consulting firm, and mom of 3 young children. She shares her journey through higher ed and tech, as well as some career pivots she’s made along the way that have been instrumental in leading her to her current situation, which is very ideal for her. She’s in a leadership role at a company that she loves and that supports her as a working mom and affords her the space to show up as the mom she wants to be, and the leader she wants to ...

In this episode of the Executive Coach for Moms Podcast, host Leanna Laskey McGrath shares personal insights gained from her recent surgery and recovery. As a former tech exec turned full-time mom and certified executive coach, Leanna delves into the complexities of the human experience, discussing the pressures women face to be superhuman. Leanna highlights the balance between acceptance and resistance in challenging circumstances, noting how resistance can worsen negative emotions. She advi...

Note: This episode contains *SPOILER ALERTS* for the Barbie movie. This week, host Leanna Lasky McGrath, a former tech executive turned full-time mom and certified executive coach, welcomes her sister, Laura Laskey, an executive mom, to discuss their thoughts and debrief the Barbie movie. They dive into the themes presented in the film and its implications on gender equality, empowerment, and self-worth. Leanna introduces the concept of "Barbie Land," where women are in power and men are s...

Welcome to the "Executive Coach for Moms" podcast, hosted by Leanna Lasky McGrath, a former tech exec turned full-time mom, recovering perfectionist, and certified executive coach. In this episode, Leanna focuses on parenting mindset shifts to reduce stress and create a more enjoyable parenting experience. Leanna emphasizes the importance of curiosity in understanding our children's behaviors and needs. Rather than assuming intentionality behind their actions, she encourages parents to stay c...

Annemieke Rice joins the podcast today for a conversation with host, Leanna Laskey McGrath, about tech startup executive life and motherhood. They discuss: Their experiences as young execs being the only woman on the leadership team. Stumbling through those early years trying to navigate this world and discover their authentic leadership styles, working to find a balance between competitiveness and compassion. Learning to trust their own voices more than all the external voices, and th...

Last episode, Andrea asked Leanna about what she's doing next, and she shared that she's relaunched her business and is coaching high achieving working moms. This week, we're featuring a coaching session she did with two very high achievers about a topic perfectionists and high achievers can ALL relate to: delegation. They discuss how delegating work to other people can be challenging because of concerns about quality, speed, trust, and more. But delegation — at work AND at home — is also *es...

In the final installment of this 3-part series where Leanna Laskey McGrath is interviewed by Andrea Palmer, Leanna shares her journey as a full-time mom and the challenges she faced in giving up her identity as a workaholic business leader. She reflects on the unrealistic expectations she placed on herself and the importance of managing her thoughts. Leanna discusses the personal growth and self-discovery she experienced during her transition and how she has learned to embrace imperfections and ...

Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career. In part 2 of the 3-part interview series with Andrea Palmer, Leanna shares about her experience as a working mom and her decision to leave the corporate world to focus on her daughter...

Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career. In this episode, I decided to switch things up a bit. Instead of a solo episode or an interview, I invited my friend, Andrea Palmer, to interview me. Our conversation was so rich and ...

Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career. In this episode, we delve into the challenges faced by high-achieving moms and how the achievement-oriented mindset can hinder their journey. Leanna, an Enneagram type 3, shares her p...

Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career. In this episode, host Leanna Laskey McGrath discusses the process of making conscious decisions. She shares her own experience of leaving her executive job to focus on her daughter an...

Welcome to the Executive Coach for Moms podcast, hosted by Leanna Laskey McGrath. The goal of this podcast is to help working moms find balance and joy in their lives. As a high-achieving mom and former tech executive, Leanna understands the challenges that come with balancing motherhood and a successful career. On this week’s episode, Leanna shares how she used to feel like she was failing at everything, despite her accomplishments, due to five factors: perfectionism, all or nothing thinking...