Redefining work-life balance, with Neha Ruch

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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As return-to-office policies reignite the perennial debate over work-life balance, a cultural shift is underway. Neha Ruch, founder of Mother Untitled and author of The Power Pause, is leading the charge to redefine the role – and perception – of working parents. In this episode of Rapid Response, she explores how career pauses can drive personal growth, expand networks, and unlock better long-term career outcomes. As support systems for parents become increasingly strained, Neha sparks an essential dialogue about our well-being, self-fulfillment, and the evolving definition of success.

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0:53.5	cover in 2025, what conversations you'd like us to cover in 2025, what conversations
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1:13.4	slash survey to share your thoughts. That's masters of scale.com slash survey. Thank you in advance
1:20.2	for helping us help you. And now on to today's episode. It's not like these women are like
1:26.7	serving their husband a cocktail and a plate of cookies at the end of the day.
1:31.3	Women and men are able to grow not just in the minute to minute of caregiving, which we know is demanding and leadership training in and of itself, but how they're actually sharpening their skills in new ways such that they're not counted out of the workforce.
1:47.3	One in three women working out of the home are planning a career pause in the next two years.
1:53.3	One and two are planning a downshift of hours.
1:55.8	Those 90% of women on pause aim to return.
1:58.3	So the goal right now is to update the perception of the modern
2:01.7	woman on pause because she is really ever shifting and ever evolving on like a much more gray
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