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Digital & DirtKate Griffin Gleysteen - Director of Media and Content, PDC BrandsSend us a textIn Episode 3 of this season’s Digital and Dirt podcast, Ian welcomes Kate Griffin Gleysteen, Director of Media and Content at PDC Brands, as explains how she balances a thriving career with motherhood. Kate is also the host of Boss Mamajama, a podcast focused on the challenges and successes of working moms.Podcast Breakdown00:00 - 09:05 Sailing, Sports & Family Influence 09:06 - 24:40 Breaking Into Marketing & Media 24:41 - 33:15 Agency Life & Brand Strategy 33:16 - 47:30 Spotify, CPG Industry & Evolving Media 47:31 - 56:55 Work-Life Balance, Parenthood & Advocacy
2025-02-2056 min
Boss Mama JamaWho's Responsible for Avoiding Burnout?Summary
In this conversation, Kate interviews Danielle Melton, an executive leader and founder of Motherboard, a burnout and wellness program for working mothers and companies. They discuss the prevalence of burnout among working mothers, the need for support and resources, and the importance of companies prioritizing the well-being of their employees. Danielle shares her personal experience with burnout and how it led her to create Motherboard. They also touch on the challenges of people-pleasing and the importance of setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care. Danielle A. Melton discusses the importance of reflection and goal-setting in...
2024-06-1237 minBoss Mama JamaNavigating the Childcare CrisisThis episode we’re joined by CEO and co-founder of Winnie (winnie.com), a child care marketplace, Sarah Mauskopf, to share her journey in building the platform and highlight the challenges faced by working mothers. It’s no secret childcare is a crisis in the US, in mid-2023 it was projected that close to 70,000 daycare centers were at risk of closure. The number of stay-at-mothers rose in the US from 15% to 25%, primarily due to lack of affordable childcare options. And it’s not just the female workforce that’s been at risk; but women’s mental health and relationship health due...
2024-05-1332 minBoss Mama JamaHype Women for Women's History MonthClosing out Women's History Month by asking men what the significance of the month is to them and giving the opportunity to show their appreciation to women in their lives. Hear what a few had to say...
When we think of women's history, we often conjure up names like Marie Curie, Susan B. Anthony, and Rosa Parks—and rightfully so. But let's not forget that women's history is also about celebrating the unsung heroes, the everyday warriors, and the quiet revolutionaries who've been shaping our world since day one. The point of Women’s History Month is to take a mo...
2024-04-0110 minBoss Mama JamaBeing a Bonus Mom with Kicks & FrosKate is excited to welcome her former colleague and friend, Melissa Carnegie, founder of Kicks and Fros, as she shares her journey in the fashion industry and the rise of sneaker culture for women and the importance of representation and community. In the episode, Melissa outlines her journey to successfully building her businesses as an influencer and fashion changemaker, as well as her new sneaker cleaner kit launch. Most importantly, Melissa shares her journey as a bonus mom and how she has navigated the challenges of building a relationship with her step-daughter. She emphasizes the importance of being a...
2024-03-1153 minBoss Mama JamaBreaking Free Book Review with Shannon TalbotIn this episode, Kate interviews Shannon Talbot, a life coach, public speaker, and author, about her book Breaking Free. Shannon shares her personal wake-up call and the importance of work-life balance. They discuss redefining success and pursuing happiness and fulfillment. Shannon provides insights on overcoming fear, excuses, and bad habits imprinted upon us starting in childhood and emphasizes the impact of personal growth. They also explore the power of visioning and manifesting, and the journey of change and continued development. In this conversation, Shannon Talbot discusses the pursuit of career happiness and the importance of bringing joy and energy...
2024-02-1542 minBoss Mama JamaClosing the Gender Pay Gap with Parentaly's Jenna VassalloSummary
This conversation with explores the topic of equitable pay, specifically focusing on the gender pay gap and its impact on parents. The discussion highlights the need for fair pay and the factors that contribute to the gender pay gap, such as parental leave and bias in perceptions. The importance of paid parental leave and support from managers and companies is emphasized as key to closing the gender pay gap. The conversation also touches on the role of transparency, female leadership, and bias awareness in addressing the issue. Overall, the conversation provides insights and...
2024-01-2931 minBoss Mama JamaChamber of Mothers: We Can't Build Back BleedingWhen critical support is promised to women and gets taken away over and over again, we get fed up. The U.S. has relied on mothers' ability to 'build back bleeding' for far too long and one grassroots movements is say enough. Listen to this episode to learn more about the Chamber of Mothers, their mission and how you can get involved.
In the US, there's no paid maternity leave, and many moms must go back to work just two weeks after giving birth. This hurts their finances and health. Maternal mortality rates are high, especially for...
2023-12-0448 minBoss Mama JamaFemale Healthcare Advocacy: Response to The RetrievalsThis episode was inspired by my own, and many other mothers I spoke with, response to The Retrievals, a five part podcast series covering a horrific story of a lawsuit between several women and the Yale Fertility Center in Connecticut, where a nurse was stealing fentanyl that was used for pain management during egg retrievals and replacing it with saline. The women went through excruciating pain, and in each case and story you heard their pain minimized, not believed, or even scolded for their physical reactions, flinching and writhing, during the procedure.
The podcast has been the t...
2023-09-1856 minBoss Mama JamaMomtrepreneur with Taylor SpellmanThe term “momtrepreneur” came about within the past decade, along with She-EO, Boss Bitch, and all the other pink and sparkly tropes that degrade the female business workforce. We are an army of highly productive and effective business leaders and contributors, why do we fall for this marketing? What’s different about “momtrepreneur” that has so many women branding t-shirts and mugs and chasing this title? The promise of not just autonomy and full decision-making power, but the idea of flexibility when women need it most; as a mom.
On this episode I connect with Taylor Spellman...
2023-08-101h 02Boss Mama JamaThe Truth about MiscarriagesKate gets real and raw about her own recent experiences with miscarriage thanks to the courage of a friend and advocate, Amanda Allen. Amanda is Senior Counsel & Director at the Lawyering Project, focused on advocating for reproductive rights and services. Amanda wrote about her own experiences in 3 articles published by Elle magazine(links below). On the episode Amanda and Kate dive into the isolation in their experiences, the moments of medical intervention, and how their friends, coworkers, and employers supported them in a time of such intense grief. Amanda provides her professional combined with personal perspective on how critical...
2023-06-0847 minBoss Mama JamaStay Healthy Mama with Health After 30's Alana BonnemannIt's easy to put your health low on your priorities when you're a career mom, but it's so important to focus on your health to feel good and show up better for family and work. Alana Bonnemann, Naturopath & Nutritionist, and host of Health After 30 Podcast joins me to talk through the importance of micronutrients, vitamin supplements, and a balanced diet after having a baby and turning 30. We talk through the misconception of prenatal vitamins (YOU NEED TO TAKE THEM POSTNATAL TOO!) and the importance of nursing your body back to health after having a baby to ensure you aren't...
2023-05-2651 minBoss Mama JamaFemale Executive Coaching with Women Changing Leadership's Stacy MayerForget the glass ceiling, our subject matter expertise may be holding us under a murky dark ceiling of our device. Hear how to break the cycle most women find themselves and propel yourself to a leadership position from the Corporate Badass herself, Stacy Mayer. Stacy is focused on changing the face of leadership in the U.S. to FEMALE by applying her knowledge and skills as an executive coach to overcoming women's biggest blockers in the workforce. Stacy Mayer is the author of Promotions Made Easy: A step-by-step guide to the executive suite, host of Women Changing Leadership, and...
2023-04-2846 minBoss Mama JamaAvoiding Burnout with Sarah WaylettKate connects with self proclaimed perfections and 15-year Accenture consulting veteran Sarah Waylett to talk about the cycle of burnout as a working mom. Sarah developed her training method for both managers and employer to avoiding and recovering from through her training platform Dreamgarten.
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2023-04-1457 minBoss Mama JamaHow Parents Thrive through Sharing Resources and Knowledge with Brooke Shapiro and Sprinkles ParentsHow do you go from having your boss literally say, "you're career is over" when you announce you're pregnant to leading your company's Parent Resource Group. Brooke Shapiro takes us through her infuriating story becoming a working mom in her corporate roll where there was almost nothing provided to support parents. Brooke became the go-to employee to help parent's thrive at her company by first starting an Parent ERG and then taking her knowledge and experience sharing to a Facebook Group with almost 2K members. Sprinkles Parents is an inclusive community of parents focused on sharing resources, inspiration, connection and...
2023-04-0854 minBoss Mama JamaParental Leave Career Coaching with Allison Whalen, CEO and Founder of ParentallyEver heard of being promoted on parental leave? Why the f*ck not!? Kate is joined by Allison Whalen, CEO and Founder of Parentaly; turning parental leave into a competitive advantage. Allison, a mom of three, has experienced parental leave issues in the workplace from multiple angles and saw the opportunity for change through a special kind of career coaching. In this episode Allison and Kate tackle the biases around career development and adjustment periods that surround parental leave. Guess who typically feels it more? Birthing parents! Allison outlines solutions to approaching parental leave as the employee and manager...
2023-03-3051 min
Boss Mama JamaLet's talk Intuition and other spooky things.It’s Halloween, the veil is thinner. Let’s get spooky, BMJs! Kate interviews her friend and intuitive/medium, Penny Mandel. They chat about tapping into intuition and empathy as a competitive edge professionally, mothers intuition, and some good old fashion ghost stories.
What You’ll Hear In This Episode:
How everyone has a level of intuition if they open themselves up and feel confident in the signals they’re receiving.
Intuition can be a level of mindfulness and advantages of planning scenarios for workplace politics
Mother’s intuition and how it’s proven both physical and metaphys...
2022-10-3147 minBoss Mama JamaFemale Succession with Wine Enthusiast's Jacki StrumGrab your favorite bottle of vino this week and get ready to hear a great chat between Kate and Jacki Strum, President and Publisher at Wine Enthusiast Media. Jacki talks about what it was like to be raised in the wine and spirits industry working with many top agencies and clients, to now step into her father’s role as co-president with her sister. From this experience, she shares what it’s like running a business in a male dominated field, what she learned about working with family, and how we can make wine a more inclusive and less snob...
2022-10-171h 00Boss Mama JamaThe Boss Baddy Daddy with Dan PecoraroProfessional parenting from a dad's perspective, the boss baddy daddy. He cooks, he cleans, he blow-dries his daughters hair, and works 9 hour days. He is the man his mother raised him to be, and his wife is thanking her for it.
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2022-07-1540 min
Boss Mama JamaThe Great Resignation - Ask and you just might receive! with Katherine DillardThe "Great Resignation" has impacted women disproportionately due to changes in value and constraints of COVID on working parents. For women still working or looking to re-enter the workforce, the current job market is ripe for getting the salary and benefits you need to feel supported.
On this episode Katherine Dillard, Vice President, Health & Wellness consulting for Arthur J. Gallagher, joins Kate to talk all things benefits at companies, including paid family leave, retirement, equity, PTO, and work flexibility. As Katherine says, just ask, the worst they can say no (in this climate it's not likely). Katherine a...
2022-07-0148 minBoss Mama JamaCOVID 19 Vaccine Approval for Kids with Dr. Amelia BoehmeThis week the Pfizer and Moderna COVID 19 vaccines were approved by the CDC and FDA for children 6 months to 5 years. This comes as a welcome relief to some parents of young children fed up with the stress and impact of COVID lock downs, and a contentious conflict for others who worry about unknown side effects. Dr. Amelia Boehme, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, who studies the disease among other diseases and their effects on adolescents, joins the podcast to weigh the benefits and risks of the vaccine. As well as her professional knowledge on disease and vaccine, Amelia shares...
2022-06-2458 minBoss Mama JamaLevel Up! Leadership Coaching with MettaWorksKate invites Rachel Rider, the founder and CEO of MettaWorks Executive Leadership coaching to discuss her firms approach to developing more effective leadership skills among top executives in the tech industry. They explore how men and women leaders are the same, as well as how their roles as parents shows up differently in due to women's psychological ownership of parenting. Rachel describes the MettaWorks approach to understanding your inner compass and what's at the core of decision making as a leader based on emotional responses. Rachel provided her perspective that babies can bring abundance instead of limitation in career...
2022-06-1752 minBoss Mama JamaWhat to do with sexual harassment or discrimination in the workplace?This episode features Susan Crumiller, the founding attorney for the Feminist Litigation Firm in New York. A successful firm focused on supporting women and minorities in hostile environments and victims of sexual abuse and harassment. In this episode, Kate gets advice from Susan on when and how a women who's feeling harassed in their workplace should take legal action or seek counsel. When is it THAT bad? How do you find real advocates? And Susan and Kate unpack who else is to blame for this continued problem in our society? Document EVERYTHING according to Susan. If you are truly...
2022-06-0348 minBoss Mama JamaPostpartum Mental Health with Thrive SpiceIn this episode Thrive Spice founder and host, Vanessa Shiliwala, takes time from her busiest month(Mental Health Awareness and AAPIHM) to talk about mental health for moms. Kate and Vanessa share their experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, how they diagnosed what they were feeling as more than just the baby blues and pandemic stress and how they work to keep their mental health in check.
Vanessa shares the additional struggles and stigmas the BIPOC community faces with mental health, both being more susceptible to postpartum depression and less likely to treat it
Postpartum mental health issues c...
2022-05-2554 minBoss Mama JamaNavigating Parental Leave Policies at Work with Isa NotermansThis week, Kate welcomes Isa Notermans, the Global Head of People and Culture at Linktree. Originally from Melbourne, Isa has 15 years of experience in working with top companies such as Google, Pandora, Spotify, and now Linktree in hiring, retaining, and advancing talent. She joins the show to talk about what’s happening in the socio-political landscape when it comes to extended parental leave, the importance of women advocating for themselves, and how to navigate conversations around parental leave in the workplace.
What You’ll Hear In This Episode:
Why is it so important for women to advoc...
2022-05-1642 minBoss Mama JamaLike Boss Mama, Like Boss DaughterFollowing in Our Mother’s Professional Footsteps and Growing From Lessons We Learn Together.
In celebration of Mother’s Day, Kate welcomes Boss Mama Hillary, a Commercial Attorney specializing in insurance law at the law firm Goldberg Segalla in Philadelphia, PA. Hillary talks about growing up in a family of lawyers, and the gratitude she has for the different styles and ways of communication that each of her parents brought to the table. Specifically, Hillary talks about the sacrifices her own mom made while blazing a trail in law for her, and how it ties into the way...
2022-05-0849 minBoss Mama JamaWhat is a Boss Mama Jama?!Intro to Boss Mama Jama, a podcast for working moms. This podcast is aimed to elevate professional women as they navigate their roles as mom with their professional and individual identities. Each episode will feature experts to unpack the challenges, and often taboo topics, that working moms struggle with in order to better prepare and arm moms today.
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2022-05-0816 min