The Working Mother Experience

Today on the podcast, we meet Julie Hawco, a community-minded change agent who wants better for working mothers and families.  Julie is the founder of The Stem Moms Project, an initiative that started out to better understand why STEM women are leaving the workplace (amongst many other things) and what workplaces could do differently to offer better support and resources. While she published the r...

Amanda, Angela and Morgan, The Working Mother Experience executive team in Canada, celebrate the successes of 2023 and share what they're excited about in 2024. This is both a personal and professional sharing session where they touch on their words for 2024, why they selected them and how they are sitting with them.  They reflect on the wins of 2023 for themselves and The Working Mother Expe...

Today on the podcast we meet Erin Smith and Saphina Waters, co-founders of The Debut Collective, an organization dedicated to supporting working mothers thrive after having children and returning to the workplace. They offer a variety of unique programs and services to help mothers connect with and celebrate their new identity - we highly recommend you check them out! We discuss that each return t...

Meredith Hendriks is a force of resilience and strength. Knowing Meredith for close to a decade, I've had the vantage point of seeing her move through adversity, accidents, setbacks and many personal challenges that would have made most crumble. In this raw interview, Meredith opens up about these moments and how she has persevered despite them.  A teacher by training, Meredith has taken two...

Today on the podcast we hear from the ever-inspiring Amanda Lapadat. Amanda and Morgan, the Working Mother Experience Founder, have known eachother for a long time, close to 23 years. Amanda and Morgan went to the same highschool in Guelph, ON; however, Morgan thinks she remembers Amanda a lot better than Amanda remembers her. Amanda, now a Canadian expat residing in Sweden with her husband and tw...

In this episode, we connect with Amelia Larson, Clinical Social Worker, entrepreneur, working mother, former foster parent and artist. Using the analogy of the "Window of Tolerance", Amelia helps us to understand how, when, and why our respective and metaphorical windows start to get tighter and tighter, letting little to no breeze through. She helps us to understand that when this happe...

Today on the podcast we meet the incredibly creative, insightful and kind Margaret Dahlberg, known in Calgary as Ms. Tweetie. Margaret is a local celebrity amongst children who enjoy her Music in Nature program or private music lessons AND is an internally recognized composer and musical performer. We are so lucky to be able to showcase one of her original compositions in our virtual gallery.  Mar...

In this mini debrief, our founder, Morgan, shares some incredibly exciting updates for The Working Mother Experience; that's right, we are going international with our first team member living abroad and hosting our inaugural art exhibit this fall in Calgary, AB. Welcome, Amanda Lapadat to our growing team; we can't wait to see where you take us.  To help inspire other creative works to...

Today on the podcast we connect with Karen Davis, high-school math teacher, mind-blowing crafter, dog-lover, mother and so much more. Karen shares her journey creating her art piece, her feelings of uncertainty using a template and her cricut machine, and her feelings about the piece and where she hangs it. We are so grateful to Karen her submission enables The Working Mother Experience to showcas...

Today on the podcast we connect with Emma Pimm, artist, working mother and one of the first participants in The Working Mother Experience's newest offerings, the  Unleashing Your Inner Creative workplace art session.  Emma talks about her unique art piece featuring her as a bobblehead, pulled by her children from the dark into the light. As a bobblehead, she explains, she finds it so easy to...

Theresa Maxwell, a former lawyer now professional figurative artist, mother of three daughters, and community volunteer shares her story on the podcast, intermingling a variety of lessons learned and nuggets of gold for our listeners.  As a professional artist, Theresa deeply understands and accepts that the artistic process takes time. She encourages listeners and future artistic contributors to...

The Working Mother Experience team is proud to celebrate its third International Women's Day together! In celebration of this day, we virtually connected to discuss the Tallest Poppy Syndrome study findings - what we thought, our own experience as tall poppies, and our call to action to men and women to help lift others up versus tear them down.  We delve into discerning the difference betwee...

So, "who picks up your dish?" Or perhaps a more irreverent question, "who picks up your underwear?" In this short confession session with WME Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith, we explore these poignant and profound questions.  As working mothers (and all of us are working mothers), The Working Mother Experience team is curious to know who, if anyone, picks up after you? While we...

Today on the podcast, we connect with Alexis MacKenzie, a successful marketing entrepreneur, professor and of course, working mother and artist.  We delve into Alexis' decision to exit the corporate grind and kick-start her own business. She openly shares her secret sauce to creating a thriving business  - leading with her values and curating her clients, working with those that lead with kin...

It's been a while since The Working Mother Experience team had a moment to simply connect, reflect and dissect (not frogs, articles). We have to say, we are very excited for what 2023 holds for us personally, professionally and for the growth we foresee in The Working Mother Experience. A huge shoutout to all the incredible working mothers who have submitted a piece of original art and those...

Today on the podcast we connect with Tamie Murphy, HR professional, actress, artist, mother and step-mother and so much more. Tamie is a long-time friend of The Working Mother Experience's Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith, having met almost a decade ago when they worked together in oil and gas.  Tamie shares her inspiration for her original submission, a water colour from a magazine she was pe...

In this raw confession session, Working Mother Experience's Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith shares a piece of her experience balancing the culmination of her Executive MBA, kids and a newborn.  To be clear, this is not an angry anti-man rant; in fact, Morgan strongly detests those type of rants as they serve no purpose except alienating and othering. Yet, in this relatively short confession s...

Juggling a communications career, parenting, launching a business, and discussing whether ‘balance’ is real. In this episode, Angela chats with Dominique, a ferociously ambitious mother, communication professional, certified yogi, and now as of her parental leave, a business owner of a gorgeous skin care line. See Dominique’s beautiful art inspired by fall in Gatineau Park, Ottawa and of course, m...

Today on the podcast we re-connect with Pam Cooper, two-time contributing artist. Her most recent submission, the Mama Bear, is featured on our online gallery. Pam shares openly about the symbolism of the mama bear, the need to want to protect her young but also herself, but also that primal "RAWR" that exists within her (and we believe all mothers). We talk about the ferocity needed to...

It's been a while listeners! We've missed you and are excited to re-establish a more regular podcasting frequency.  In this episode, The Working Mother Experience Founder, Morgan Craig-Broadwith, shares her thoughts on how we define working mothers, the critical importance of tending the hearth, and the impact of how we define 'labour' in the home on our well-being. Tune in for...

In this episode we talk to Georgia, who recently moved home to Australia from Canada. We get into the real contrast of mountain life to city life, full time working parenting to being a PhD student, and the very complex layers of the popular Australian preschool show, Bluey, which happens to be set in Georgia’s hometown and now the city she returns to after living nine years in Canada. We hope you...

On today’s podcast we are talking all things pregnancy. Our 3 guests are multifaceted woman with big goals and we dive into how they  navigate 3 different pregnancy and work scenarios. Amanda Wagner shares hear journey as an entrepreneur and her choices around when to share her pregnancy with her clients. IG: @theamandawagner Kate McKenzie speaks about looking for a job while pregnant and how she...

Today on the podcast, I have the special treat of interviewing my momma, Linda Craig. An avid community champion, supporter of the arts, and nature enthusiast, Linda shares openly about her transition from stay-at-home-mothering to working and mothering to becoming an empty nester to retiree.  We talk about the pressures of working and mothering in the 80s relative to today, the need to carve out...

Join us on the podcast and reconnect with the incredible Sarah Lerner, Entrepreneur, CFA, MBA, yoga teacher, mother of 5, artist and now poet. Yes, she's amazing.  In her incredible poem, Sarah gets vulnerable as she shares her journey breaking away from the corporate machine and deciding to put her family first. As we tend to do, our conversation meanders all over the place, but it hones in...

Happy International Women's Day!  Today on the podcast we showcase three of our artists, Asha Prasad, Devon Moody-Graham and Mariane Heroux who honestly share what it means to be a working mother in India, the US and Canada. In this special interview, we delve into the changing tides in relation to being a working mother in our respective countries, our own day-to-day experience and how its u...