Hello, welcome back to the Boss Bay Podcast. This is Lindsay and I'm excited that you're here today because this is our first official CEO Mama episode that we're airing here on the Boss Bay Podcast and I'm extra excited because this

episode happens to be an episode that I recorded almost exactly two years ago

on my podcast called Motherload and this episode talks about my experience with Iowasca earlier in

2022 and how it fundamentally shifted my relationship with motherhood and how a lot of the

themes and a lot of the inner work exploration

that I've done as a result of this Iowaasca journey that's actually continued on over the

last two years you know since I recorded this episode has led to so many insights around what I call the mother load, the mental load of motherhood, the themes and all of the facets of what comes up a lot for CEO mamas, for ambitious women who are

entrepreneurial, who are leading their businesses, who are often the breadwinner,

those are all things that I wasn't super aware of until I did this, you know, deep in our work journey in 2022 and got the insights that I discuss on this episode and then also during this trip to Peru to sit with Iowasca is when the idea for

mother load came to be for my podcast and actually set into motion a lot of what has resulted in me sitting here in this chair talking to you

from the Bosset Podcast. So I'm really happy that you're here today listening and I hope you enjoy the episode.

I came back home on Mother's Day to see my kids and I had a totally different

feeling and it's hard to describe and it makes me emotional here on the podcast but it was like I understood.

I just had this deep understanding of not only my experience as a mother, but my mother's

experience and her mother's experience and all mother's experience. Hello and welcome back to the show I'm so happy that you're here today for today's

episode so I'm gonna jump right in talking about today is something I've had a lot of questions on and I know could be a controversial topic,

but it was something that changed my life and especially changed my view and my kind of belief system and my own experience with motherhood.

So I think it's an important thing to talk about and that is my experience with

Iowasca. I went on a trip to Peru a few months ago in May of 2022 or I guess it was late

April 2022 and I want to kind of lay out today the story of how I even ended up there. I was very resistant to it at first.

What the actual logistical process was to do something like that because I've had a lot of questions of,

you know, how do you find an Iowasca retreat

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