Are Stay-at-Home Moms Giving Up? Are Working Moms Selfish? Let’s Talk w/ Neha Ruch

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In today’s episode I am joined by Neha Ruch, author of The Power Pause: How to Plan a Career Break after Kids and Come Back Stronger Than Ever, to unpack the long-standing tension between stay-at-home and working moms. Together, we explore the myths, societal pressures, and hidden labor behind both choices—while challenging the idea that ambition and motherhood are at odds. Neha shares how taking a career pause can be a power move, why it’s time to end the shame around different parenting paths, and how we can better support all moms, no matter their choice.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.8	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Eliza Pressman, and today's episode is with my friend
0:18.4	Nihara Roush, and she wrote a book called The Power Pause, How to Plan a Career
0:25.2	Break after kids and Come Back Stronger Than Ever.
0:28.6	Neha founded Motherhood Untitled, which is an awesome community that really just is game-changing.
0:40.3	It's a way for a new generation of moms to think about career shifts and family life as one part of a long and thriving journey. I adore her, and I think
0:47.2	this was a great conversation. If you are in that space of trying to figure out your purpose when, you know, you've got kids or
0:57.9	you're about to have kids or you've had kids for a long time. And motherhood is so enormous.
1:05.9	Taking time to experience it is so important. It's also important to decide what you want for you.
1:13.8	Instead of these wars of stay-at-home mom versus working moms, we're all in this together.
1:19.7	Whatever you choose, I think that this conversation is really about helping us support each other
1:25.9	and the choices that we make in this world of career shifts
1:29.9	and changes and workload and home life. Have a listen. And of course, as always, please
1:37.4	write a review in the Apple Podcasts and give a five-star rating and just say what kind of episodes you like to listen
1:45.7	to. Just say your favorite. Say the topics you like. Let me know what you want to see more of.
1:52.7	All good positive energy. I like to hear it. It helps with the algorithm. It puts it more out
1:59.1	there. So I really appreciate it.
2:01.7	And of course, coming up is my paperback version of my book.
2:07.4	If you have the hardcover, but you want one that you could just take on the go.
2:12.1	Or you just were waiting for the soft cover.
2:16.5	Or you don't know that I wrote a book. I did. It's called
2:19.1	The Five Principles of Parenting, Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Human. It's a New York
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