Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story
Natalie Chassay on Building a Business and Fighting Mom Guilt
Business, ambition and the guilt that follows women through work and home.
In this episode
Simona Deifta speaks with Natalie Chassay in this filmed long-form episode of Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story. The conversation explores business, ambition and the guilt that follows women through work and home.
Themes in this conversation
- Business ambition and motherhood
- Mom guilt and work identity
- Building while carrying family pressure
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The Do Not Disturb edit
Three things to take with you.
Three ideas from the conversation, in our words.
Do
Ask for the help that makes meaningful work possible.
Not
Treat pursuing a career after a baby as something to be ashamed of.
Disturb
The idea that unpaid care counts for less than paid work.
What if motherhood starts the next business chapter?
Natalie and Simona talk about starting and building a business alongside family life. They discuss ambition, asking for help and the feeling that working after a baby needs an explanation.
The conversation also asks why paid work and unpaid care can be valued so differently, even when both make the rest of life possible.
What comes up
- A business after becoming a mother
- Ambition and asking for help
- The value of paid work and unpaid care
Keep the conversation going
Amelia Christie-Miller ↗
For another business shaped, rather than stopped, by motherhood.
Sabrina Sarl ↗
For protecting the time and value of a creative career.
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