Hey everyone, it is your host, Zoe here. Welcome, welcome. It's Monday, which means it is a motherkind moment day. These are little snippets of powerful conversation. And today is with the incredible Niharush who coined the phrase

power pause to describe what happens when you take a pause from paid work to focus on family

life. I love this conversation and concept because I've never liked the phrase stay at home.

It is so reductive and it absolutely does not match the reality

of what it means to be with children day in and day out. So whether you're currently doing paid work

or not, what I took from this short moment was that we need to advocate for the value of care

work and raising our families. We need to protect

ourselves financially and yes, even in a marriage and we talk about this in this clip. And we need

to keep growing alongside our children so that when we do re-enter the workforce, we have new

skills to document and demonstrate.

I hope you love this little shot of inspiration this morning.

Here it is.

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I think that's so interesting, the value for the unpaid work. Did you have to educate your

husband in that? Or did he get that? Because what I hear and see is a lot of partners, extended

family, employers even, not understanding the value of that care work. Yes, there was a lot of education

and that's where that first dialogue around the luxury. I think we talked a lot about where

did that feeling of luxury come from. And that association, when we deem one side luxurious,

we assume that it isn't work and we assume that it isn't work. And we assume that it isn't worthy of

support. And that's where it gets into a real slippery slope, right? Because I see too many women in my

work who pause their paid work and then feel like they have to work 24-7 without breaks,

which is why these money conversations that can feel intimidating and sitting in the discomfort of where are those attitudes coming from?

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