Mother Untitled’s Neha Ruch on Rebranding Stay-At-Home Motherhood

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Neha Ruch chose to take an indefinite pause from work after having her second child. She immediately faced raised eyebrows and unsolicited advice. She didn’t bat an eye at her choice. But the reactions got her thinking: why are we riding on outdated stereotypes about moms choosing to exit the workforce to take care of their family for a chapter of their lives? Enter: Mother Untitled, the leading platform dedicated to ambitious women choosing to lean into family life – without shame. Today, Neha shares tips from her new book The Power Pause to help listeners pull it off like pro. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Neha shares: The importance of her gap year in India and what it did for her self-trust Why she couldn’t find the peace and purpose at work that she got from motherhood How stay-at-home-motherhood has been wrongfully labeled as a “luxury” The percentage of women who stop working because of high childcare costs Financial levers couples can pull to make room in the budget for a future pause Neha’s Instagram: @motheruntitled Neha’s book: The Power Pause: How to Plan a Career Break After Kids – and Come Back Stronger Than Ever Carly and Danielle’s Instagram: @carlyanddanielle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Curry's Business.
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0:26.4	business, powering your business in 2025. 60% of women pause their work right now because of the cost
0:35.6	of childcare. One in three feel like they are
0:38.1	forced to make this decision. And so it is not to say working motherhood or working out of the home
0:43.7	motherhood is a luxury. It's to say that the real privilege is to get to choose. I'm Carly Zakin,
0:50.7	and I'm Danielle Weissberg. Welcome to 9 to 5-ish with the skin. We've run into so many questions
0:57.3	over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice and we got it from women who'd been there.
1:04.9	And that's what we're bringing you at this show. Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your
1:09.4	career by talking to the smartest leaders we know.
1:12.4	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5.
1:17.1	All right, let's get into it.
1:20.4	Hey, everyone.
1:21.5	Today our guest is Neha Roush.
1:23.7	She's the founder of Mother Entitled and author of The Power Pause, How to Plan a Career Break After Kids, and Come Back Stronger Than Ever. I'm very curious. I can't wait to hear more. Before becoming a writer and entrepreneur, Neha spent over a decade in brand strategy and consulting, including a stint in tech after earning her MBA from Stanford. Around the time she had
1:45.8	her first kid, Nahas started to feel lack of enthusiasm about work. She felt like she needed to
1:51.6	redefine her identity beyond her career. In 2016, she had her first son, and although early
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