294: Reframing Career Pauses and Navigating Identity as a Mother with Neha Ruch
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Neha Ruch, author of "The Power Pause," to discuss rebranding stay-at-home motherhood and navigating the complex world of work-life balance. We explore the concept of the "power pause," challenging outdated stereotypes, and finding fulfillment in both career and family life. Neha shares her personal journey, from her corporate career to embracing motherhood, and offers insights on how women can reframe their choices without shame or penalty.
Key Takeaway / Points:
The "power pause" as a rebranding of stay-at-home motherhood
Challenging outdated stereotypes about working moms and stay-at-home moms
The importance of making choices that are best for you and your family
The value of testing and learning when making career transitions
How to handle the "what do you do?" question with confidence
The problem with labels like "working mom" and "stay-at-home mom"
The importance of support and help in motherhood
Reframing childcare as a joint household investment
How to prepare for re-entering the workforce after a pause
The power of perspective and embracing change in different life stages
The value of maintaining your identity while being a parent
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.2 | I am so excited for you guys to listen to this episode because it is one that I have wanted to |
| 0:09.8 | record for a while as a fan of Nahas and then also one that I know many of you have requested |
| 0:16.4 | ever since reading her incredible book, The Power Pause. |
| 0:20.1 | So Nahar Rooch is an amazing now friend of mine, but also pioneer, in my opinion, in the |
| 0:26.5 | motherhood space. |
| 0:27.6 | She is the force behind mother untitled and is now the author of The Power Pause, which |
| 0:34.1 | is the book that will redefine Stay at Home Motherhood. |
| 0:37.1 | It is a paradigm shifting guide to career breaks after kids that rebrands stay-at-home parenthood |
| 0:43.4 | for a new generation of women and families. |
| 0:46.8 | Niham really started this movement after she caught herself struggling to answer. |
| 0:53.3 | So what do you do? This innocent question for many people |
| 0:57.4 | that we ask almost everyone after she had left her corporate job to care for her infant son. |
| 1:02.4 | And she kind of drew this shameful blank and couldn't find the words to describe the new stage |
| 1:07.7 | of life that she'd embarked on. This eventually led to the founding of Mother |
| 1:13.6 | Untitled and the writing of the power pause to gain back and like take back that power in how we |
| 1:20.3 | respond to that and what this stage of our life actually looks like. So we dive into a lot of |
| 1:26.7 | stay-at-home motherhood and also working |
| 1:29.7 | motherhood. And why is there such a need to label? And why can we all just like agree that we are |
| 1:35.9 | moms on a scale of differing things filling our days? Because that is my opinion in the reality of |
| 1:43.0 | what motherhood looks like now. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, it's not just you're in a corporate office desk setting for 45 hours a week |
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