Episode #42: How to be an Overachiever With Kids with Julie Hawco, Engineer, Community Connector, Mother & Artist Artwork

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Episode #42: How to be an Overachiever With Kids with Julie Hawco, Engineer, Community Connector, Mother & Artist

March 03, 2024 • Working Mother Experience

Today on the podcast, we meet Julie Hawco, a community-minded change agent who wants better for working mothers and families.

Julie is the founder of The Stem Moms Project, an initiative that started out to better understand why STEM women are leaving the workplace (amongst many other things) and what workplaces could do differently to offer better support and resources. While she published the report just last year, she was surprised at the secondary outcomes of this work - the participants' insatiable desire for community.

Julie talks about how this work has shaped her goals for 2024, shifting from outcomes-based to experience-based, how we must be rigorous in our check-ins to ensure we are doing the work that fulfills us (to ensure we are overachieving in the right direction), and so much more. Julie drops knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb in this interview.

Thank you, Julie, for sharing your story and for all the work you are doing to support other working mothers.

https://stemmomsproject.com/