Taking the Lead Episode 1: The Pain Point

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This Mother's Day, a surprise. To celebrate working moms, we're re-releasing all four episodes of our award-winning series, Taking the Lead. The story of two Brooklyn women and their tech idea to help harried working mothers - like themselves. Start here, with Episode 1: The Pain Point. And happy Mother's Day, ladies. You rock.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Manouche. Happy Mother's Day from our team of moms here at Note to
0:04.6	Self. And as our special way of celebrating, we're putting out our big series on two professional
0:10.1	moms who founded a startup to try and solve the work-life balance problem for all working
0:16.4	mothers in America. Yeah, it was a big promise. Since we reported on our startup founders,
0:22.6	Leslie Alley Walker and Requel Ellison, we have heard from so many of you about how
0:27.4	much the series inspired you to talk about the tension between wanting to succeed in your
0:32.5	professional work-life and your life as mothers. So we're putting out all four episodes about
0:38.7	Requel and Leslie here. But since the story involves the role of dads too, we're going to drop
0:44.7	the companion episode which focuses on the role of men at work and in the home next month on Father's
0:51.0	Day. For now though, go drink a mimosa for us and enjoy.
0:57.7	Once upon a time, I was a foreign news producer who would fly into emergency situations like,
1:08.1	you know, the parliament is on fire in Belgrade or the Concord just crashed. And I would go to make
1:16.1	sure everybody else in the world knew about it. And then after 9-11, I became a reporter,
1:23.3	um, TV reporter for a couple of years and it was intense. And then this thing happened to me.
1:31.5	I had kids. And I thought I was going to be like, oh, it's fine. Yeah, we'll still be amazing at work.
1:39.2	We'll just like throw them into a backpack, travel around the world. It's so stupid. I had no idea.
1:45.2	My ass got kicked so hard. The first one was so collicky. He never slept. I literally tried
1:56.0	to take a nap once while pushing his stroller. It just gives you an indication that I had lost my mind
2:02.6	completely. And then I had another one. Because I was like, well, I'm not coming out of this hole.
2:10.1	My eyes will just stay down here in the misery of not sleeping and not, you know, doing anything
2:17.0	for myself or using my brain because it doesn't work anymore. And I had this number two baby who
2:22.9	was a little bit easier. And then this point came that completely surprised me because I thought
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