Try and come for my job

A few months ago, my coach asked me something no one had asked me before. (Guess that's what coaches are for!) He said: "Why do you keep referring to your company as your baby? What even makes it a baby exactly? Does it cry at 3 am? Does it physically need you to survive?"

And that's all it took for me to stop. Because my company is most certainly not a baby (not anymore anyway!). I have actual babies now and yes they do cry at 3 am sometimes! And it would simply be a lie to say I care about anything in the world just as much as I do them. So no, my company is not a baby. I'm already a full-time mother to two real creatures and I'd say that's more than enough.

So if you're a mother, especially scrolling here on LinkedIn, here's your reminder that you're doing an incredible job! It's the hardest, most insane job anyone could have and you're doing phenomenally! And it's ok to bother people with the sound of your pumping machine, it's ok to work from home if you haven't had time to dress like a human that day... Give yourself a break because no one could possibly do what you do. And if they think they could, they'd be more than welcome to try! Because I don't know how I do it most days, and I don't know how most mothers do it either. We must be supernatural.

(And yes, the title is a Taylor Swift reference. My team is crazy and they wrote me a mother's day poem to the lyrics of I can do it with a broken heart cos we're cheesy like that and I couldn't have been more proud of them ??)