You're listening to 3 in 30 takeaways for Mom's episode 36,

Momming Like a Boss, using corporate leadership strategies in our homes.

Welcome to 3 in 30, a podcast for moms who want to create more meaning in motherhood.

Each 30-minute episode will feature three doable takeaways for you to try at home with your family.

I'm your host, Rachel Nielsen.

Thank you so much for being here.

I don't know about you, but sometimes it's hard for me to even remember what my life was like before I had children.

Was there life before children?

Yes, in fact, there was.

And many of the experiences that we had before our kids came into our lives,

whether that's growing up in a certain place or traveling abroad while we were in college,

working in a certain profession, which many of us may still be working in,

all of that impacts the ways that we parent.

We all have unique ways that we parent because of what we experienced and the talents and skills that we developed

before our children ever entered our lives.

And today's guest, Whitney Archibald, has a very interesting topic that goes along with that

that I know you're going to learn so much from.

She's going to talk about momming like a boss, a boss as in the leader of an organization.

So Whitney excelled as a writer and then an editor for a marketing magazine before she became a mother.

In several years into her motherhood experience, she realized that many of the skills that she'd learned in her work

about business and leadership strategy could be applied in her own home.

She now has five kids and she recently started a blog called How She Moms,

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