I have a fear of wasting time.

This week, my neighbor's dad was given 3 months to live. I sat with them - just talking, letting time pass. Fighting every urge to be productive.

Here's what struck me: I live like time is always urgent. But her family would give anything for those 3 months to drag.

Time always feels urgent until it really is. Then you just want it to slow down.

In this episode:

We've mastered discipline - the gym, the work, showing up. But we haven't mastered rest, breaks, doing nothing without guilt.

What if this year is for optimizing joy instead of just output?

Your next growth might not be doing more. It might be learning to do less - and being okay with it.

Time is urgent. Life is short. Maybe BECAUSE of that, we need permission to waste some of it.

What happens when you fight for motherhood - and then discover you're still allowed to find it hard?

Priyanka Mishra is Business Head at Fuzia Talent, scaling virtual support services to 1,000+ clients. She's also mother to one-year-old Siona - a daughter who arrived after three miscarriages and taught her everything about holding two truths at once.

In this conversation:→ How three losses shaped her approach to motherhood (and why that doesn't make her struggles more valid than anyone else's)→ The gratitude paradox: being deeply blessed AND deeply exhausted→ Why self-compassion isn't reserved for those who "fought harder"→ Integration over martyrdom: staying ambitious while being present→ How her husband's resilience (raised by a working mother) makes partnership possible→ Teaching Siona emotional resilience in a world that needs it

This isn't about creating a hierarchy of who deserves to struggle. It's about learning from someone whose difficult path taught her something we ALL need: you don't need to earn the right to rest.

Whether your journey to motherhood was traumatic or straightforward, we all end up in the same place - learning as we go, being transformed, needing grace.

If you've ever felt guilty for finding motherhood hard when you "should" be grateful - this conversation will give you permission to hold both.

I used to sprint to school pickup. Actually run. Because being first in the queue somehow meant I was doing it right.

Last week, I strolled. I was 15th in line.

My son didn't notice.

The running wasn't about him. It was about me - compensating for working, performing for invisible judges, trying to parent like I don't work so no one could question if I was enough.

Being 15th in line didn't break him. It freed me.

I used to think good mothering meant being first. But I've learned it means knowing which standards actually matter and which ones I invented to over-compensate.

In this episode, I'm unpacking the performance trap working mothers fall into. Why we over-perform in visible moments to compensate for the fact that we're more than just mothers - we have identities outside of it, we enjoy working, we pursue our own goals.

The constant vigilance about our performance and the exhausting need to be visibly devoted every single moment.

It's ok to let my children see that I'm more than mummy - I go to the gym, I have friends, I enjoy my time alone.

Invented standards, real relief, and the freedom in letting them see all of me. That's what I'm building.