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

Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/

Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/

Connect with Emilia D’Anzica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emiliadanzica/

Check out Emiliadanzica.com: https://emiliadanzica.com/

Get Pressing ON as a Tech Mom: https://a.co/d/03Zrx10A

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Susanna Hunter has spent more than 10 years at Salesforce, where she’s now a VP of HR supporting a global organization of 10,000 people. She’s also raising four-year-old twins and a new baby, living on an intergenerational family compound, writing songs, doing stand-up comedy, and sharing the very real side of working motherhood on LinkedIn.

Susanna talks about the mom rage she once thought was hers alone, why her second postpartum experience has felt completely different from her first, and how she’s learned she doesn’t have to lose herself after having kids. She also shares the practical systems behind making their life work, including paid childcare, dividing responsibilities with her husband, a weekly house meeting, and removing the tiny recurring decisions that used to create friction at home.

Jump into the conversation:

(00:00) Meet Susanna Hunter

(04:33) Building an intergenerational family compound

(09:09) How motherhood rewired her brain

(15:00) Talking openly about mom rage

(21:38) Her surprisingly positive postpartum experience

(25:13) Staying connected to yourself after kids

(27:41) What it actually takes to make it work

(30:40) Taking a four-week-old baby to a festival

(33:00) Why she embraced vibe parenting

(36:13) Navigating work travel with three kids

(38:46) Being a Salesforce VP on Mom LinkedIn

(41:40) The systems that keep their family running

(47:40) Save of the week

Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/

Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/

Connect with Susanna Hunter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannahuntercoaching/

Check out Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ap/?ir=1

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Nicole Ramirez spent 15 years in journalism and marketing, including a stint as director of marketing for Forbes, before a layoff in July 2024 sent her back to LinkedIn to job hunt.

Instead, she built a following from 2,000 to 50,000 in two years and turned it into a full-time business helping women in corporate, out of corporate, or just starting to build an online brand to show up and get noticed.

Nicole shares the framework she uses with clients (educate, entertain, inspire), why she thinks about content as a strategy instead of just something to push out, how she coaches people through comments before a post goes live, and what she actually tracks instead of obsessing over follower count.

Jump into the conversation:

(00:00) Meet Nicole Ramirez

(01:29) The Google Doc post that went viral

(06:44) Who she actually works with on LinkedIn

(09:53) The journey from journalism to Forbes

(13:15) How she grew to fifty thousand followers

(15:40) How motherhood changed her content

(16:49) The beach chicken post that went nationwide

(24:26) Her childcare setup with her father-in-law

(34:53) Coaching clients through personal brand crises

(38:52) The post that hit five million impressions

(39:38) What to track instead of follower count

(43:47) Save of the week

Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/

Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/

Connect with Nicole Ramirez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleramirez-personal-brand-expert/

Check out NR Digital Consulting: http://nrdigitalconsulting.com

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