Hey guys, welcome back to Previe Lions podcast. This is Sarah. And I know we're in the holiday

seasons. You're like, Sarah, wait, we're talking about workplace and pregnancy. Yes, we're going to

talk about that because we know all the

cute like, hey, I'm pregnant at Christmas or I've got, you know, a little bun in the oven at

Thanksgiving you all did. Now it's time to get real about it in the workplace. So I brought back

our favorite lawyer, Ari Allen. She is going to give us a lowdown. Welcome, my friend.

Thank you, Sarah, so much for having me. Glad to be back.

We're super excited. Okay, so we know it's all fun in games and then now it's real. Like,

and we feel the pressure of, you know, okay, we're pregnant. Am I going to lose my job? When do I

tell my boss? Am I showing? Like, how am I going to go to the bathroom

and throw up for the fifth time today? All the good things. It's all real. And it can hit

all at once if this is the first pregnancy or if this is another pregnancy that you're excited

about. It's like, oh gosh, didn't I just get back from maternity leave? How does it all work? So I'm happy to unpack

this with you, figure out if there are some tips and tricks that can work for everyone.

I'll do my fun and favorite lawyer disclosure. I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer. So please

feel free to seek your own legal advice. I'm going to try to keep this really general and high

level for your listeners. Perfect. So'm going to try to keep this really general and high level

for your listeners. Perfect. So before we dive, share about why you're passionate about this and

give if they've not heard your first episode with me, give us a little bit about you and why you care

about this so much. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm a civil rights lawyer by training. I was in private

practice for several years. I worked at the federal courts for two years before being in private practice. And while I was in private practice as a lawyer in our home state of Alabama, I really focused my practice on labor and employment and civil rights laws. So this is an area where I've been working in really for about

10 years and have always just been passionate about what our civil rights laws are, what those

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