Hey, welcome back to the previous lines podcast. It is Sarah back with you today. We are super excited. We keep hearing from you guys. Okay, so what do we do when maternity leave is up or help us work in moms out? we heard you, we're answering you with Miss Lori. She is here from Mindful Return. She gives you your favorite tips on

Tuesdays, especially from Working Moms.

Welcome, Lori.

It's so good to be here with you, Sarah.

Thanks so much for having me.

So give our audience just a quick background

of what led you to kind of really dive in to being, you know, support and advocate for moms in the workspace.

Sarah, sheer desperation led me to this role.

I am Mama to two wonderful red-headed boys who are now ages 10 and 12, but back in the very early days when I had, you know, a toddler and an infant on my hands. My husband and I like to joke that at that stage 1 plus 1 felt like 85 the wheels were all coming off and I was looking around for supports and resources that would help me navigate that personal and professional identity transition that I was going through when I went back to work.

And I found snarky articles about how I might leak on my shirt or I shouldn't put pictures of my babies on my desk.

And other than that, I didn't find anything.

So I was really setting out to create what I wished had existed for myself.

I wanted a class I could take.

I wanted a course.

I wanted resources and materials to be like,

okay, here's how you do it without losing your mind.

And I did lose my mind.

So I'm happy to be able to support others and help them to feel a little less disjointed when they go back.

Completely. You know, we hear from our moms. There's a lot, there's even a hard discussion

when they're pregnant to even tell their employer that they are pregnant.

About half of all moms studies have shown that almost half half of us are terrified to tell our manager that we are pregnant.

I mean, that's not on you.

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