39: Kate Torgersen: Helping Busy Mothers, New Career Paths + Finding Your Healthiest Self
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Being a working mom comes with an array of unique challenges. Breastfeeding on its own can be demanding, but mixing it with working-parent life can be a recipe for stress.
Today’s guest, Kate Torgersen, knows exactly what this struggle is like, and that’s why she created Milk Stork. Milk Stork was birthed from Kate’s own working-parent struggles and she now uses it to help other working moms who are committed to breastfeeding. In this episode she shares what it’s like for her to be a working mom, the challenges she’s faced this year, and tangible tips to make stress more manageable.
Show Highlights:
- Robin shares how she discovered Milk Stork
- How Milk Stork was born
- What Kate’s current season of life looks like
- Kate shares what a typical day in her life currently looks like
- How to protect your time and set boundaries
- How Kate transitioned from being an archeologist to an entrepreneur
- The way challenges shift throughout parenthood
- What chores Kate doesn’t do and how she balances them
- Getting help navigating children’s education
- What inspired Kate to intermittent fast and how it benefits her lifestyle
- Navigating your health and getting back in shape after having a baby
- What 2020 taught Kate about stress
- Finding healthy new rituals
- Rapid-fire session
- Why meditation is important to find what you need
Links:
The Balanced Life on Instagram
FREE 5-day Pilates Strong Challenge
The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung and Brian Nishii
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 39 with Kate Torgerson. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:16.5 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, |
| 0:22.3 | sharing the real story of how they make their life work, what they do, and perhaps more |
| 0:27.1 | importantly, what they don't do, what they prioritize and what they let go of. |
| 0:31.6 | From food and exercise to work and family, we'll cover it all and provide practical tips to help you create your |
| 0:39.2 | own sense of balance and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi friends, welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited to share this episode with you today. |
| 0:51.7 | I first discovered Milk Stork when I was breastfeeding the twins and needed to |
| 0:57.5 | take a trip for work. The trip was longer than my usual trip. So I wasn't going to be able to, |
| 1:03.2 | quote unquote, pump and dump, as they say. I needed to figure out how to bring the milk back from |
| 1:08.9 | my trip with me across the country. I believe I was in New York. |
| 1:13.4 | And I wasn't sure how to do that. Can milk go through TSA? Like, how do I even do this? Do I have to |
| 1:18.9 | bring a cooler? So I was Googling my options and discovered milk stork, which is an incredible |
| 1:24.4 | company that helps moms to ship breast milk when they travel. |
| 1:28.6 | It's absolutely an incredible company. |
| 1:31.3 | So I actually was going to New York. |
| 1:34.0 | I went on their website, purchased a box. |
| 1:36.9 | It was delivered. |
| 1:37.8 | A cooler box was delivered to my hotel, so it was there waiting for me when I checked in. |
| 1:41.8 | That way I could have all my milk while I was there |
| 1:44.5 | and then either ship at home or in a little carry-on that I could bring on the airplane with me. |
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