The 90 Days Nobody Prepares You For: Returning to Work After Maternity Leave

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges and realities of returning to work after maternity leave, focusing on the first 90 days.

In this episode, I’m walking you through what the first 90 days of returning to work after parental leave actually looks like - the messy, the hard, and what genuinely helps.

People in this episode

Host: Carina O’Brien

Topics covered

• maternity leave
• returning to work
• parental leave
• work-life balance
• challenges of working mothers

Keywords

• maternity leave
• returning to work
• parental leave
• work challenges
• working mothers

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