Full Stack Moms

Ruchi Varshney is the co-founder of Measure , an end-to-end RevOps and finance platform she started with her husband and her brother-in-law. Before that, she spent her career at Dropbox, where she started as an engineer and worked up to running all of the new products. She is also raising an eight-year-old son and leading a remote, all-Canadian team of 15 from Toronto. Ruchi shares what it was lik...

Emilia D’Anzica has spent her career building and leading teams in tech, while raising two daughters and a bonus son. She earned her MBA, started her own business, and eventually co-authored Pressing On as a Tech Mom. After watching women leave tech in huge numbers during the pandemic, she and co-author Sabina Pons surveyed more than 300 women around the world to understand what was pushing workin...

Susanna Hunter has spent more than 10 years at Salesforce, where she’s now a VP of HR supporting a global organization of 10,000 people. She’s also raising four-year-old twins and a new baby, living on an intergenerational family compound, writing songs, doing stand-up comedy, and sharing the very real side of working motherhood on LinkedIn. Susanna talks about the mom rage she once thought was he...

Nicole Ramirez spent 15 years in journalism and marketing, including a stint as director of marketing for Forbes, before a layoff in July 2024 sent her back to LinkedIn to job hunt.  Instead, she built a following from 2,000 to 50,000 in two years and turned it into a full-time business helping women in corporate, out of corporate, or just starting to build an online brand to show up and get notic...

Jessica Winder built a career out of learning exactly how corporate America works, then decided to teach other people how to work it too. She is Chief People Officer at her Winder Law Firm, a career coach, and mom of four, including two sets of twins born seventeen months apart. After building an entire household team to make her career and her family both possible—from a live-in house manager to...

Heather Bell spent years in tech sales as the only woman in leadership, and now works in MarTech at Vector after building her career at OpenTable. After years of watching gender shape who got access to relationships and opportunities on sales teams, she began rethinking what she actually needed from a job to stay in the industry long term. Her search for the right fit included being the only woman...

What are the baby and kid products that actually make motherhood easier, and which ones are just expensive things you thought you needed? Mallory Lee and Shannon Curran swap their favorite parenting saves, from baby medicine baskets and stretchy pajamas to carriers, strollers, wagons, monitors, and the surprisingly valuable gift of an Uber Eats card. They share the products they kept reaching for,...

Alli Tunell spent years working toward becoming a CMO. Then motherhood changed what the right career looked like. She is Head of Content  at Animalz, former host of the Shifting Priorities podcast, and mom of two. After the transition to motherhood rocked her expectations, she began rethinking the career path she had planned since her early twenties. Her search for the right fit included managing...

What does it take to build a successful career and scale a business without sacrificing your authentic self or taking life too seriously? Lauren Aquilino , Co-founder & CMO of EMMIE Collective , joins Mallory Lee and Shannon Curran to talk about breaking away from "traditional" agency norms, embracing being a "personality hire" in tech, and using humor and grace as essential strategies for bot...

What happens when the career you worked years to build collides with the identity shift of becoming a parent? In this episode, we sit down with Tamara Hinckley , former Pinterest product leader and founder of Momentum Rising , to talk about the moment many working moms quietly face: wondering if the way they are working still fits the life they want. Tamara shares her journey from building a caree...

What does it really mean to be a modern dad? And how is this generation reshaping parenthood alongside demanding careers? Mallory and Shannon explore the data behind today's millennial dads, sharing surprising research on hands on parenting, paternity leave, identity, and why fathers are playing a bigger role at home than ever before. They reflect on their own families, workplace culture, and the...

What does burnout really look like when you love your job, but your family is paying the price? Mollie Bodensteiner , VP of Revenue Operations at ZoomInfo , shares the moment she realized her career had taken too much from life at home, and why stepping away from a role she loved became the right decision. Together with Mallory Lee and Shannon Curran, she reflects on ambition, burnout, shifting pr...

What happens when we stop focusing on the career costs of motherhood, and start looking at what value it actually gives us? Alexa Starks , founder and CEO of Mothered Media and Editor-in-Chief of Mothered Magazine , talks about her journey through systemic advocacy, launching a magazine, and building a business while raising two toddlers. Alexa opens up about launching the groundbreaking Maternal...

What happens when corporate ambition, the chaotic realities of postpartum recovery, and the search for modern community collide? Mallory Lee and Shannon Curran get into it with the raw, unfiltered moments of building tech careers while raising toddlers. From the surreal experience of traveling for business while orchestrating a complex village of family childcare, to navigating the unspoken bounda...

Suzanne Slaughter is rethinking how careers work for a generation of parents, caregivers, and high-performing professionals who want flexibility without stepping away from their skills. She is the CEO and founder of Groundwork, a marketplace connecting experienced talent seeking part-time or fractional roles with early-stage startups that need high-quality operators without committing to full-time...

What happens when twin motherhood, career ambition, and entrepreneurship collide? Melissa Chandler, communications leader and founder of her own consultancy, shares her journey raising twin boys while launching a business after nearly two decades in tech. She opens up about becoming a mother later in life, balancing work and family, and creating a parenting partnership without a default parent. In...

Rebecca Grimes has spent her career taking on hard things. As Chief Revenue Officer at SheerID, she leads sales, customer success, marketing, and revenue operations. At home, she and her husband are raising two kids, caring for aging parents, managing a multigenerational household, and somehow still finding time for fifth-grade field day. In this episode, Rebecca shares the behind-the-scenes story...

What happens when a high-growth startup marketer decides to step away from a dream job and build a life that's more aligned with her values as a mother and entrepreneur? In this episode of Full Stack Moms, Shannon Curran and Mallory Lee sit down with Cat Canada, former Director of Marketing at Bobbie and founder of Re:Brand, a thriving networking community for women. Cat shares her journey from he...

What happens when a newborn baby joins an executive board meeting? Shannon shares the story behind one of the defining moments that inspired Full Stack Moms: bringing her exclusively breastfed infant to a startup board meeting in New York.   In this conversation, Shannon opens up about returning to work just weeks after giving birth, leading strategic discussions while caring for her baby, challen...

What happens when career growth, motherhood, and entrepreneurship collide? Amber Williams, head of RevOps and Chief Revenue Officer at Passetto, talks about her journey through tech leadership, maternity leave, and building a startup while raising a young child. Amber opens up about navigating layoffs while pregnant, doubling her income with the help of career coaching, and balancing high-pressure...

What happens when the “corporate husband” is actually the wife? Chantel Hirschel, Director of Revenue Operations at Sana, talks about her career growth, motherhood, and building a nontraditional family dynamic. Chantel opens up about her husband’s life-changing accident, becoming the sole provider, balancing leadership in tech with raising two young children, and the emotional realities of postpar...

Balancing a career and navigating motherhood requires more than ambition, it requires resilience and bold decision-making. Barbara Nicholas, CEO of Polly, shares her journey of growing up with limited resources, becoming a young mom at 18, working double shifts to make ends meet, and still managing to carve a path all the way to the C-suite.  Barbara opens up about one of the most defining moments...

Building a business and navigating motherhood requires more than ambition,  it requires embracing uncertainty and constant reinvention. Jillian Whitlow, founder and CEO of Ink & Honey, shares her journey of transitioning from a corporate career to entrepreneurship while raising three kids under four. From navigating the challenges of starting a business after a layoff to balancing a thriving c...

There’s no clean handoff between work and parenting. It all happens at the same time. Paula shares how years of frustration over finding snacks her kids would actually eat turned into Sampleit, and what it really took to get there. Not a perfect routine or carved-out hours, but stolen moments between school drop-offs, snack requests, and the constant pull of little people who need you right now. P...

What happens when the childcare system fails you? You’re a mom, you fix it. In this episode, Karen Kelly shares how losing afterschool care for her son two years in a row led her to quit her job as a startup president and build a grassroots movement. After a single post in her town's mom Facebook group yielded 75 emails overnight, she mobilized 600 parents, negotiated with local vendors, and helpe...