2.26: My Working Mom: Chasing Her Dreams

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Now more than ever women and girls are being encouraged to share their gifts, talents, and intelligence with the world in spectacular ways! So what does it look like to have a wildly successful career all while raising a family? This week on the podcast I sit down with my mom, Dr. Leslie Telfer, a clinical psychologist who spent 30 years working at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Dr. Telfer specialized in serving veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and she shares in the episode that this is no coincidence. Listen to hear how she found her way to psychology and how she balanced working in trauma with being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

Song Credit: “Away” by Geographer and “Beach Disco” by Dougie Wood

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 2, Episode 26, My Working Mom, Chasing Her Dreams.
0:13.6	Welcome to First Name Basis, a community of parents committed to making the transformation, from good intentions to confident action.
0:22.4	Join us each week as we cover critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt
0:26.7	comfortable asking. We'll use the lessons we learned to teach our children about race,
0:31.3	religion, and culture. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.
0:47.7	Music host, Jasmine Bradshaw. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here.
0:52.8	If you're listening to this episode, it means that we have had our baby.
0:57.6	Our sweet Holly Jane is finally in our arms and we are so happy. Well, I'm recording this
1:04.8	before she's here, but I can only imagine how happy we are going to be. This episode is also the season finale of season two. We are going to take
1:15.2	some time off to enjoy our newborn little Holly and make this transition as a family to being a
1:22.5	family of four. We're so excited to take some time and rest and rejuvenate and see you back for season three.
1:30.7	I'm not sure how long the break will be, but I'll definitely keep you posted on Instagram and on our Patreon page so that you know exactly when we're coming back.
1:41.3	For this season finale, I wanted to do a really special episode, an episode that is
1:47.1	really close to my heart. I am interviewing my mom, Leslie Telford. And I have had a few questions
1:54.9	before. People have noticed on my Instagram that I hadn't talked about my mom very much.
2:00.7	And somebody sent me a message
2:02.0	and said, why don't you ever talk about your mom? And I was really glad they asked because it gave
2:06.7	me an opportunity to explain a little bit. So my mom has had an amazing career. She worked my entire
2:14.6	life from the time I was born until just a couple of months ago. She just
2:18.7	retired. And I had asked her from the very beginning if I could interview her here on the podcast,
2:24.9	but we both decided that it would be better for us to wait until after she was retired.
2:29.5	Because her career was a little bit sensitive and she really didn't want anything confidential getting out
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