Three High Achieving Women on Choosing Themselves in Motherhood and Leadership - with Annemieke Rice and Andrea Palmer

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with three executive moms discussing the transformation of ambition and success in motherhood and leadership.

This episode is a candid, thought-provoking conversation with three executive mom friends: Leanna Laskey McGrath, Annemieke Rice, and Andrea Palmer, on what happens when high-achieving women can no longer rely on the same habits, identities, and definitions of success that once drove them. Together, they explore the shift from effort-based value to experience-based leadership, and why motherhood doesn’t diminish ambition, but transforms it. This conversation challenges the idea that success comes from pushing harder, and instead invites a more nuanced question: What actually matters in this season of your life? They discuss: Why “doing what’s right for you right now” is more powerful than planning for forever How motherhood expands your capacity and your leadership The redefinition of value beyond hard work and long hours Choosing presence over urgency (and why you’ll “lose the time” either way) The role of aligned environments in making success sustainable Turning up joy instead of trying to eliminate difficulty The idea that there isn’t one path to fulfillment, leadership, or contribution At its core, this episode is about self-trust, seasons, agency, and the courage to choose…

People in this episode

Guests: Leanna Laskey McGrath, Annemieke Rice, Andrea Palmer

Topics covered

• motherhood
• leadership
• self-trust
• success redefinition
• work-life balance
• experience-based leadership

Keywords

• high-achieving women
• ambition
• leadership
• success
• motherhood
• self-agency
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WRKdefined Podcast Network

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