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episode 667. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other

passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead

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Kimberly Didrickson is the founder of Learning Motherhood, a consultancy agency and online community platform that helps women returning to work after having a baby from feeling overwhelmed with motherhood and career to thriving in navigating the changes that occur when becoming a mother and also pursuing a career.

Kimberly spent 15 years growing her career at a Fortune 100 company and as a director managed teams with portfolios

of over 20 million in yearly sales, yet nothing prepared her for growing and birthing a child

and returning to work. Determined to change how mothers are supported through the transition back to work,

Kimberly created learning motherhood. Her passion runs deep in transforming the workplace to support

working parents by also providing programs to assist organizations in creating a work environment

that embraces families to strengthen company values. She's a workplace advocate for family-friendly

policies, including parental leave for all and national paid leave programs. Listening to here

Kimberly share how she's reclaiming her unicorn space, you know I love some unicorn space, how her career

was massively connected to her identity and idea of success prior to having

kids, how motherhood played tricks on her identity, the significance of millions of moms

leaving the workforce during the pandemic, the specific long-term impact on the future of work

when we consider moms leaving the workforce in droves, the significance of men being part of the

parental leave conversation, and actually taking their parental leave, why parental leave

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