There Is No Such Thing As A Stay At Home Mom ft. Neha Ruch

We Met At Acme

Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.2 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Neha Ruch is reshaping the perception of 'stay-at-home' motherhood -- and the mission and story is born out of her own experience. She got her MBA at Stanford and worked in brand strategy before taking her own 5-year career pause to raise kids. We discuss what it means to be a SAHM, the divide between working moms and moms who stay at home, how to know where you belong, and so much more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:18.5	Hey guys, welcome back to We met at Acme and happy March.
0:23.0	Fucking finally.
0:24.3	Hopefully we got some springtime weather out of this.
0:27.0	I know we did this past week.
0:28.2	We'll see if it lasts.
0:29.9	It could easily go back to being a snowstorm in a second.
0:33.4	But we'll see how it goes.
0:35.9	I was so excited and grateful for your very kind feedback on last
0:41.2	week's Chelsea Handler episode. And I cannot wait for you to hear today's episode with Nea.
0:47.8	She is so cool. She's such a badass. I think what you'll appreciate whether you're a mom, a mom to be, you don't want to
0:56.4	have kids, is that we don't necessarily come from the same opinion on this. Her book is about
1:02.8	the power pause and kind of taking a step away from working for motherhood. And I feel like
1:08.7	I want to take a step into working from motherhood. I feel like
1:13.5	being a full-time mom is the hardest job ever. And, you know, I think you're going to get a lot
1:20.5	from our conversation of seeing both sides, finding a balance, and just talking about where life goes after you become a mom.
1:31.7	If you had heard my kind of identity career crisis episode, solo episode that I did a few
1:39.2	months ago, like after becoming a mom and kind of not knowing, you know, where my career or where my life
1:47.5	stands at this point. And I think a lot of moms can relate to that feeling of just like,
1:53.2	what the fuck is happening and I'm not the same person I was. And what does that even mean?
1:58.8	And I think this episode is a great kind of deep dive into the paths that you can choose
2:05.2	after becoming a mom.
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