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This is Zigzag, the business podcast about being human. I'm Anush Zomerodi and welcome to step two of the Zigzag project.

This is six episodes to help you reset yourself and your work to figure out how to better align your ambitions with what you want to see in the world.

Like a listener named Emily, who is a mother of three, and therapist turned entrepreneur.

It's really, really hard. It's really hard to make a new fledgling business work and stay in alignment with my values.

We're making something I really believe in a solution I think we do really need in the long term. I hope you keep coming back to the center of why are we doing any of this.

I really recognize that sound in your voice, exhaustion mixed with determination to do things differently. You are not alone.

According to one women's networking site, one in four women are looking to start a business after the pandemic. Two out of three are planning a career change.

And a lot of them have no idea how they're going to make that happen because of course here in the US women have made up the bulk of job losses since February 2020, especially women of color.

We've also seen record numbers of women not even trying to get back into work or dropping out because of caretaking duties.

Because when health care and child care aren't a given, neither is a career like for Kelly.

I'm mostly a stay-at-home mom who's trying to switch her career.

I wish that I could hire a child care and begin a balanced life working on something I value and am passionate about as well spending time with my kids, husband, family, and friends.

That's the goal, ideally. That's the dream.

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