DEEP DIVE: Natalie Mayslich and Blessing Adesiyan on the Future of Remote Work

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Natalie Mayslich is the President of Consumer for ⁠Care.com⁠, where she is responsible for expanding, building and delivering the Company’s portfolio of Childcare and Senior Care products and services. Blessing Adesiyan is the Founder of ⁠Mother Honestly⁠, a platform that provides financial technology and work-life infrastructure to employers and is reshaping the future of women and families at home and in the workplace. Natalie and Blessing are here to talk to us today about a new joint research study between Care.com and Mother Honestly that assesses how remote work truly impacts working families at work and at home. The findings of that study have just been published as ⁠The Modern Workplace Report. ⁠ Natalie and Blessing explain: How remote work makes employees more productive and parents more involved How remote work has changed gender roles in the home How employers can implement effective remote work policies Here's where you can find Natalie and Blessing: www.care.com www.motherhonestly.com @caredotcom on IG/FB/X @mhworklife on IG/X ⁠Read The Modern Workplace Report⁠ We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Get 50% Off Monarch Money, the all-in-one financial tool at ⁠www.monarchmoney.com/FRESH ⁠invisible workload, default parent, household equity, household equality, gender household equality, gender household equity, mental load, cognitive load, cognitive labor, emotional labor, second shift, work life balance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:06.8	This is Margaret.
0:07.8	And this is Amy.
0:08.7	And today we have two guests.
0:10.0	We're speaking to Natalie Macellich and Blessing Adesion.
0:14.4	Natalie Macellich is the president of Consumer for Care.com, where she's responsible for expanding, building, and delivering the company's
0:22.5	portfolio of child care and senior care products and services. Blessing Adesion is the founder
0:29.0	of Mother Honestly, a platform that provides financial technology and work-life infrastructure
0:34.9	to employers and is reshaping the future of women and families at home and in the workplace.
0:40.4	Natalie and Blessing are here to talk to us today about a new joint research study between care.com and mother honestly that assesses how remote work truly impacts working families at work and at home.
0:53.4	The findings of that study have just been published as the Modern Workplace Report.
0:58.1	Welcome, Natalie and Blessing.
0:59.9	Thank you, Amy and Margaret.
1:01.1	We're so excited to be here today.
1:02.8	So tell us why did Mother Honestly and Care.com team up to field this survey in the first place?
1:08.6	I'd say that both of our companies care and mother honestly understand that without care,
1:13.6	working families can't work.
1:15.2	And we're both incredibly strong advocates for solutions that make women's careers and their
1:20.1	lives manageable.
1:21.6	And so much of the conversation or the national conversation has been consumed with the
1:25.9	future of work, what does it look like?
1:27.9	But we didn't have the data to understand how remote work was impacting employees caring for
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