12 - Motherhood Changed my Career Goals Forever, with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz
I recorded this conversation with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz back in 2022, right when I first started this podcast and I didn't get to publish it at the time. I'm so happy it's not out in the world for more mammas to hear from this incredible woman who changed the trajectory of my motherhood for the better.
Amy was my mentor and I trained with her for nearly three years in motherhood coaching and she's the reason Mothers' Hood exists. She was the first person who ever made me feel like what I was going through in early motherhood wasn't me failing. Amy gave me the language and understanding of it all.
In this episode we go right back. We talk about the Amy before kids — fiercely ambitious ABC journalist, the "we don't need a man" generation, success and career as the whole point of her life. Then motherhood and the floor dropping out from under her. We talk about:
- The version of yourself that cracks open the second you become a mum, and how nobody warns you it's coming
- What it actually looks like to hit the maternal wall at work — the comments, the assumptions, the being managed out without anyone saying it out loud
- Leaving a career she'd built her whole identity around, and the grief that came with it
- Why "I don't know who I am anymore" isn't a crisis to fix
- What she'd tell her daughters about becoming mothers themselves
If you've ever felt, or are feeling, like you're standing with one foot in who you used to be and one foot in someone you don't recognise yet this one's for you.
AMY TAYLOR-KABBAZ
www.amytaylorkabbaz.com
MOTHERS’ HOOD
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