Three High Achieving Women on Choosing Themselves in Motherhood and Leadership - with Annemieke Rice and Andrea Palmer

This episode is a candid, thought-provoking conversation with three executive mom friends: Leanna Laskey McGrath, Annemieke Rice, and Andrea Palmer, on what happens when high-achieving women can no longer rely on the same habits, identities, and definitions of success that once drove them.

Together, they explore the shift from effort-based value to experience-based leadership, and why motherhood doesn’t diminish ambition, but transforms it.

This conversation challenges the idea that success comes from pushing harder, and instead invites a more nuanced question: What actually matters in this season of your life?

They discuss:

• Why “doing what’s right for you right now” is more powerful than planning for forever

• How motherhood expands your capacity and your leadership

• The redefinition of value beyond hard work and long hours

• Choosing presence over urgency (and why you’ll “lose the time” either way)

• The role of aligned environments in making success sustainable

• Turning up joy instead of trying to eliminate difficulty

• The idea that there isn’t one path to fulfillment, leadership, or contribution

At its core, this episode is about self-trust, seasons, agency, and the courage to choose a version of success that reflects who you are now, not who you used to be.

Connect with Annemieke here.

Connect with Andrea here.

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