224: Sarah Peck: Start Up Pregnant

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sarah K Peck is a writer, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and executive director of Startup Pregnant, a media company documenting the stories of women’s leadership across work and family. She hosts the weekly Startup Pregnant podcast, and she and her husband are the instigators behind More Women’s Voices, a website that promotes women speakers and entrepreneurs. She’s a 20-time All-American swimmer who successfully swam the Escape from Alcatraz nine separate times, once wearing only a swim cap and goggles to raise $33k for charity: water. To date, she’s written for more than 75 different web publications and has delivered speeches and workshops at Penn, UVA, Berkeley, Harvard, Year of the X, Craft & Commerce, WDS, and more. She’s currently writing a memoir of her experience working in the tech startup world while she was pregnant with her first kid. Sarah is full of energy and passion around her messaging for moms and entrepreneurs. She is also very realistic and reasonable. She has simplified her life to make her dreams and desires very clear. By living with less, she has been able to create more for herself and her family on every level. Listen in to hear Sarah share: Why she left a startup to start her own startup early in motherhood How she created time and money for herself to afford starting her own business (and some super simple budgeting tips!) How to do less in order to accomplish more Why you need to write your personal philosophy and how to make it actionable and not too “fluffy” Links Mentioned: Connect with Sarah: Sarah K Peck Startup Pregnant: Startup Pregnant Startup Pregnant on Twitter Startup Pregnant on Facebook Startup Pregnant on Instagram Thank you to our sponsors: Songfinch: Create a personalized song for a special person or occasion using the Songfinch platform of over 300 professional musicians. To get 10% off your Personalized Song From Scratch, go to Songfinch and use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Canvas People: To get a FREE 11x14 canvas print (just pay shipping) of any of your photos, text SHAMELESS to 99000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 224, with Sarah Peck.
0:34.7	Show notes for this episode, including all links mentioned in the episode, and access to our
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0:40.0	Please go to shamelessmom.com and click on episode 2-24.
0:47.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:49.8	I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the
0:54.6	tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.
0:58.7	I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building
1:03.4	a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building?
1:07.6	So let's dive in.
1:15.2	Sarah Peck is a writer, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She's the founder and executive director of Startup Pregnant, a media company
1:19.6	documenting the stories of women's leadership across work and family. She hosts the weekly
1:24.2	Startup Pregnant podcast, and she and her partner in life and work are the instigators behind more women's voices, a website that promotes women's speakers and entrepreneurs.
1:33.6	Sarah is also a 20-time All-American swimmer who successfully swam the escape from Alcatrez nine separate times, once wearing only a swim cap and goggles, so I think that means no swimsuit, to raise
1:44.9	$33,000 for charity to bring water to people who need it. To date, Sarah has written for over 75
1:51.7	different web publications and has delivered speeches and workshops at Penn, UVA, Berkeley, Harvard,
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