Emilia D’Anzica has spent her career building and leading teams in tech, while raising two daughters and a bonus son. She earned her MBA, started her own business, and eventually co-authored Pressing On as a Tech Mom. After watching women leave tech in huge numbers during the pandemic, she and co-author Sabina Pons surveyed more than 300 women around the world to understand what was pushing working moms out and what helped others stay.

Emilia talks about returning to work after just five and a half weeks with her baby, the heartbreak of realizing her daughter preferred the nanny after years of work travel, and the working-mom guilt that can keep you up at night wondering how much you’re missing. She also shares the workplace double standards that made leaving at 5:30 for daycare pickup feel unacceptable, why she eventually left corporate life, and how parenting has changed as her daughters have gotten older.

From learning to give less advice and ask more questions to building a career with more room for family, Emilia shares what she wishes more working moms knew: there is no one right path, and none of us are meant to do this alone.

Jump into the conversation:

(00:00) Meet Emilia D’Anzica
(03:37) Building a career and family in tech

(06:26) Why she wrote Pressing On as a Tech Mom

(11:40) Are workplaces actually changing for moms?

(14:01) The guilt that keeps working moms up

(14:46) Calling out workplace double standards

(20:53) How motherhood changes as kids get older

(23:00) Giving less advice and asking more questions

(27:25) How Emilia found her voice as a woman in tech

(34:13) Building the next chapter of her career

(38:48) Why working moms need each other

(40:04) Save of the week

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