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CNN 5 Things

5 Good Things: One Mom Turned Her Struggle Into a Movement

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with five stories about women making a difference around the globe. Pumpspotting helps breastfeeding moms connect virtually and physically. Artists in this market have been doing better than men at auctions. A woman-led tribe is on a mission to protect salmon and the rivers they live in. This network’s helping to close the gender gap in venture capital. Plus, these female athletes are paving the way for the next generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey there, it's International Women's Day, and we wanted to celebrate the game changers and record

0:35.5

breakers. It's great that the women are getting their chance to kind of even everything up and be more recognized in the market.

0:43.3

We'll highlight one industry where women are doing better than men for a change.

0:48.3

Plus, from a 10-year-old girl making sports history to a tribal chief fighting for cleaner water, these stories you'll hear

0:55.1

prove that when women rise, we all win. From CNN, I'm Krista Bow, and this is a special edition

1:01.8

of Five Good Things. All right, I want you to take a second and think of a woman who shaped who you are today.

1:14.2

I'm willing to bet a lot of you pictured your mom or your grandma or someone who felt like that to you.

1:20.8

Those women poured everything into us.

1:24.0

And I'm sure they'll tell you motherhood is a wild and beautiful ride, full of love,

1:30.2

sacrifice, and making it up as you go, especially in those blurry postpartum days.

1:36.4

When my son was just a baby just a few weeks old, I found myself in a reality of either

1:43.5

nursing or pumping or thinking about nursing and pumping.

1:47.0

It was my new reality as I tried to keep this tiny human alive and fed, and I found it incredibly

1:54.8

overwhelming and so isolating. As a mother of two young children, Amy Van Hearn was balancing work and motherhood.

2:03.2

In 2015, she was about to board a red eye back to Maine from San Francisco.

2:08.2

And I was sitting on a very dirty, sticky bathroom floor in the San Francisco airport,

2:13.5

hooked up to a breast pump that was sounding like Darth Vader. And I was just beside myself wanting to quit both breastfeeding and my job and everything.

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