Unscripted

Why Working Moms Can’t Stop Trying to Be Perfect, and what it's costing you

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There was a morning in 2018 when I was driving on the highway listening to an audiobook I had been avoiding for weeks.

I did not even make it to chapter one.

Something about what I heard cracked open a pattern I had spent most of my life calling ambition, high standards, discipline. And once I saw it, I could not unsee it.

In this episode, I talk about perfectionism in working mothers. Not…