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Building Your Village: Friendship, Connection, and Community in Motherhood — with Emily Siegel
Oct. 19, 2023

Building Your Village: Friendship, Connection, and Community in Mothe…

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 t...

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The Hurdle is Never Bigger Than the Finish Line: Cultivating Resilience and Building Your Own Army - with Erica Music
Oct. 12, 2023

The Hurdle is Never Bigger Than the Finish Line: Cultivating Resilien…

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 n...

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Let the Light In: Embracing Grief, Hope, and Healing after Pregnancy Loss - with Kami Wernimont
Oct. 5, 2023

Let the Light In: Embracing Grief, Hope, and Healing after Pregnancy …

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, ...

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Joyful Juggling: Intentionally Creating Balance and Joy in Motherhood, Career, and Life — with Dr. Miranda Walichowski
Sept. 28, 2023

Joyful Juggling: Intentionally Creating Balance and Joy in Motherhood…

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 powerl...

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Redefining Success on Your Own Terms: Coaching Conversation
Sept. 21, 2023

Redefining Success on Your Own Terms: Coaching Conversation

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 defin...

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Back to School BONUS: Supporting Our Kids Through the Preschool Transition
Sept. 12, 2023

Back to School BONUS: Supporting Our Kids Through the Preschool Trans…

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 ...

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Conquering Imposter Syndrome: Learning to Silence Limiting Beliefs and Claim the Space We've Earned - with Emily-Rose Barry
Sept. 7, 2023

Conquering Imposter Syndrome: Learning to Silence Limiting Beliefs an…

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 l...

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Practicing Self Compassion and Learning to be Kinder to Ourselves
Aug. 31, 2023

Practicing Self Compassion and Learning to be Kinder to Ourselves

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 thoug...

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Career Pivots and Resets: How This Executive Mom Created Her Ideal Balance with Work and Life - with Kate Griffin
Aug. 24, 2023

Career Pivots and Resets: How This Executive Mom Created Her Ideal Ba…

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 ...

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Embracing the Human Experience
Aug. 17, 2023

Embracing the Human Experience

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 coa...

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Unboxing Barbie: A Discussion of Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Self Identity - with Laura Laskey
Aug. 10, 2023

Unboxing Barbie: A Discussion of Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Se…

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 execut...

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Mindset Shifts to Make Parenting Feel Less Stressful
Aug. 3, 2023

Mindset Shifts to Make Parenting Feel Less Stressful

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...

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Navigating Authentic Leadership as Tech Startup Execs: A Journey of Friendship, Motherhood, and Growth - with Annemieke Rice
July 27, 2023

Navigating Authentic Leadership as Tech Startup Execs: A Journey of F…

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 leadersh...

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How High Achievers Can Learn to Delegate: Coaching Conversation
July 20, 2023

How High Achievers Can Learn to Delegate: Coaching Conversation

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...

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Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 3
July 6, 2023

Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 3

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 b...

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Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 2
June 29, 2023

Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 2

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...

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Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 1
June 22, 2023

Meet Your Host! Leanna's Story - Part 1

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...

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Navigating Motherhood as a High Achiever
June 15, 2023

Navigating Motherhood as a High Achiever

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...

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Conscious Decision Making
June 8, 2023

Conscious Decision Making

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...

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Why Working Moms Feel Like We're Failing at Everything
June 1, 2023

Why Working Moms Feel Like We're Failing at Everything

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...

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The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast Trailer
May 20, 2023

The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast Trailer

Thanks for listening this trailer for The Executive Coach for Moms Podcast and I hope you decide to subscribe! We’ll have weekly episodes starting June 1st, and if you want to reach out, you can find me at https://www.linkedi...

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