The Working Mother Experience
Welcome to The Working Mother Experience - the podcast where we go beyond the highlight reel to uncover the real stories behind remarkable women balancing meaningful careers, motherhood, and everything in between.
Each episode, we sit down with leaders, entrepreneurs, physicians, creators, and changemakers to explore the systems, decisions, challenges, and beliefs that shape their lives at work and at home.
Together, we'll uncover the operating systems, practical strategies, honest lessons, and thoughtful conversations designed to help working mothers thrive -not by chasing perfect balance, but by building lives that work for them.
The Working Mother Experience
Behind the Assignment: Megan Cassella, CNBC Correspondent, on Ambition, Motherhood & the Invisible Operating System
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What does it actually take to keep a demanding career moving when you become a mother?
In this episode of The Working Mother Experience, I sit down with Megan Cassella, Washington Correspondent for CNBC, who covers the intersection of business and Washington, including economic policy, trade and regulation. Her reporting has taken her from the campaign trail and Capitol Hill to major international assignments. (cnbc.com)
Eight months after becoming a mother, Megan travelled internationally to cover President Trump at the G7. While audiences saw her reporting on a major global story, behind the scenes another operating system was running: pumping schedules, milk logistics, childcare, travel planning, professional demands and the countless decisions required to make work and family function at the same time.
That experience became the starting point for a much bigger conversation.
Megan joins us to talk about the invisible infrastructure behind working motherhood: the people, routines, boundaries and mindsets that allow her to pursue an ambitious career while raising a young family. We explore how motherhood has changed her definition of professional success, what employers often don't see about the logistics of working parenthood, and why resilience alone isn't a sustainable solution.
We also ask what she would redesign about the systems surrounding working parents - and what she would tell another mother facing an extraordinary professional opportunity and wondering, How am I possibly going to make this work?
Because increasingly, we believe the question isn't whether working mothers can do hard things.
It's what needs to exist around them so they don't have to do everything.
This conversation is part of the next chapter of The Working Mother Experience, where we're uncovering the operating systems behind working motherhood - the beliefs, habits, relationships, decisions and supports that make our lives work.
Learn more about Megan and explore her reporting:
Megan Cassella at CNBC