The Battle Between Motherhood and Ambition: Emily Tisch Sussman’s Unfiltered Story

LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

Aliza Licht

Business, Careers

5.0 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Leave Your Mark, I sit down with Emily Tisch Sussman, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast 'She Pivots', a Tony-nominated producer, the Co-owner of Gotham FC, and a political strategist. We discuss Emily's viral article 'My Children Killed My Career,' which explores how having children shifted her career trajectory. Emily candidly shares her struggles of balancing a demanding career in political strategy while raising three young children, her journey of self-discovery, reclaiming her professional identity, and the importance of building personal brand equity. She also touches on her experiences entering the sports industry and the significance of meaningful connections. 00:00 Welcome to Leave Your Mark: Meet Emily Tisch Sussman 00:57 Emily's Viral Article: My Children Killed My Career 02:51 Balancing Career and Motherhood: The Struggles 05:38 The Turning Point: Finding a New Path 08:41 Reinventing Success: Building Equity in Your Name 11:38 Navigating New Spaces: Authenticity and Adaptability 12:40 Law School Challenges: Overcoming Self-Doubt 15:39 Embracing the Unknown: The Drive for New Challenges 17:29 Burnout and Intensity 17:43 Gotham FC and White House Challenge 19:09 Parenting Perspectives 21:26 Sports and Family Legacy 25:24 Networking and Meaningful Connections 28:58 Personal Boundaries and Success Metrics 31:22 Skincare and Final Thoughts

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Alisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh
0:05.4	career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.
0:09.5	It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out
0:13.8	in your career or well on your way.
0:16.5	With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done and still
0:22.5	have time to post about it. I'm really excited to welcome Emily Tish Sussman to the Leave
0:30.2	Mark podcast. Emily is the creator and host of the award-winning mega podcast she pivots.
0:36.7	She's a Tony nominated producer, a Mary Claire
0:39.0	contributor, a Democratic political strategist, a mother of three, and the co-owner of the women's
0:45.3	soccer team, Gotham FC. I mean, Emily, welcome to leave your mark. Thank you so much for having me.
0:52.5	I do feel like this is a long time coming.
0:54.4	It is a long time coming. Very excited.
0:57.6	So I think I just have to start with like the bold, obvious, just thing that struck me the most was the article that you wrote, which went completely viral in March 2022.
1:09.2	My children killed my career, but took me in an
1:12.3	unexpected new direction. That is something that a lot of people probably feel, but would never say
1:20.4	out loud nor write an article on that would go viral. And your background, obviously, you have been
1:27.1	in politics, you're a lawyer, you've been in all these spaces.
1:31.5	And you weren't particularly, like, excited to have children. Is that correct? It was sort of like on the
1:37.9	to-do list, right? On the to-do list. And I had never really thought it through. Like, I didn't
1:42.0	think about what it actually meant. I just thought,
2:02.6	okay, this is like what I'm supposed to do. And in fact, I got pregnant like a month after we got married. And I had thought everyone, I wasn't like the youngest to get married. Everyone around me had taken, you know, like a year to get off hormones, to get off birth control. And I thought to myself, I guess if I have a year, I can get my head around this. And I got pregnant immediately and I was not happy about it at all. Like I never
2:08.5	felt a connection to babies. There was nothing about it that appealed to me. I just wanted to work.
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