Meet Tiffany Faught- an incredibly thoughtful, honest and soulful mother of three. I was struck by Tiffany's ability to lean into the incredibly awful while simultaneously remaining grounded and authentically connected to the present moment. And connected to the present moment she must be for Tiffany is the firefighter for her family as they move through a never-ending blaze of medical facilities, practitioners and treatments. Her young son has cancer and treatments will continue for another few...
Jul 05, 2025•39 min
In this episode we meet Nathalie Rasmussen, a woman who wears many hats - sustainability expert, lecturer, lawyer, mother and artist. We were honoured to have Nathalie as our guest speaker at our first international Vernissage in Copenhagen, Denmark. She spoke about her journey finding part-time work in a full-time country; working and mothering is less a question and more an expectation in Denmark (and they have the systemic support to make it happen). On the podcast, Nathalie expands on her ex...
Jun 17, 2025•37 min
Meet Nekolina Lau, and listen to her and (sometimes) host, Angela, talk about using values to guide us, why we all experience imposter syndrome and how to get over it, mothering, creating art, and her published works! We hope you enjoy.
May 27, 2025•37 min
Meet Arwen, a 9-year old girl who is a sister to a younger brother and sister, lover of highland dance and piano, and daughter of our founder, Morgan. In this conversation between mother and daughter, they discuss what it's like to be a kid, an older sister and a daughter to a career-minded mother. No holds barred. Arwen shares many nuggets of wisdom - what it feels like when her parents are on their cell phones, how she feels when her mom is occupied on her work computer and she simply wants a ...
May 11, 2025•23 min
Do you set an annual word? Resolutions? Well, we do! And today on the podcast, we are sharing the words that will guide us through 2025 (well, we hope they will). We talk about the wins and words of 2024 and what we are excited about in 2025 both personally, professionally and in regards to this amazing project. Please join us and have a few laughs, reflect and perhaps, feel inspired to generate your own word to guide you in 2025.
Feb 23, 2025•40 min
In this episode we connect with Juli Rohl, an entrepreneurial, creative, and brilliant human being and mother. Juli created her piece in October 2023 at our first exhibit and live workshop, but it wasn't until now that she felt ready to share more about her piece, what it means (hint - fertility), and what's unfolded for her since. To being ready isn't just about sharing readiness to speak to her art, but about Juli's entrepreneurial journey, her pregnancy and parenting journey. Juli is an inten...
Jan 29, 2025•39 min
Meet Dr. Rose Asgharzadeh, an inspiring, thoughtful and incredibly deep thinker. Rose is an Assistant Professor at Mount Royal University, a mother of a university student, and recent newcomer to Canada from Iran. Rose shares about her Iranian heritage through her art, describing how the symbol of the mandala aligns so beautifully with the experience of being a working mother. She describes her experience of creating the colours we see in the piece and how their creation is yet another parallel ...
Jan 14, 2025•37 min
In this rambling episode, Morgan, The Working Mother Experience Founder & Executive Director, shares why she believes the work the WME team is doing matters. Over the last three years, WME has collected 125 original pieces of art painted by mothers around the world. It has hosted corporate workshops, exhibits, created a calendar for purchase, and more recently, initiated the Pay It Forward series to support mothers who may need support accessing paint materials, time and support to create th...
Dec 08, 2024•20 min
Today on the podcast we meet Chiara Bello, an Italian jewelry maker and artist, entrepreneur, mother and artist. A ray of sunshine, a creative maven, and honest sparring partner, we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Acquainted through my cousin who lives and works in northern Italy, Chiara quickly submitted her art, "My PJ Lifestyle," a whimsical family portrait of her family doing something she loves, relaxing and enjoying pyjama time. She talks about the need to blend and fle...
Nov 26, 2024•36 min
To mark our 50th podcast, the WME leadership team takes moment to reflect on our milestone moments, the themes that are resonating with us and where we are headed. From calendars, to non-profit status, to reaching our halfway mark for art submissions, we share what's getting us excited. And we talk about "who's caring for the mothers" - a critical and often under-looked task, a task we take very seriously as a team both for one another and the women we serve. We want our working mothers to feel ...
Oct 24, 2024•37 min
Meet Amanda Robertson, engineer, dancer, mother, and artist. Amanda participated in one of The Working Mother Experience's virtual workshops through the organization Pros and Babes (https://www.prosandbabes.com/), creating a beautiful piece of original art in community with women that she has grown to know and call her community over the last 6 years. Amanda reminds us of the beauty of motherhood; of growing a human and the majesty of surrendering to your child as they grow and develop their sen...
Aug 28, 2024•35 min
In this episode we speak with Angie Alexander about her experience as the main breadwinner for her family, stay at home fathers, and how we will most certainly make mistakes as working mothers and human beings. Angie also shares the trials and tribulations of navigating teenagerhood and how she is embracing a new stage with her daughters as they enter adulthood. We can't say this phase sounds any easier; perhaps even harder and more complex than toddlerhood. An Engineer and more recently a profe...
Jul 24, 2024•37 min
Meet Melissa Kober Meier, an energizing, bright, and entrepreneurial spirit who found a solution for a constant frustration and challenge for women working in the field - NeverNude coveralls. While we recorded this before Melissa had launched her business, she is now fully operational and in revenue-generation mode. On the podcast, Melissa talks about the journey of moving from ideation to design to launch and everything in between. An engineer by training, Melissa is expanding her comfort zone,...
Jul 19, 2024•36 min
Meet the amazing Angela Anderson, Communications Director for The Working Mother Experience, ultra runner, adventure-woman, senior leader and momma. We talk about having children 12 years apart and how Angela has evolved as a parent - she's more chill, and yet, less tolerant of toys and Lego in her house (she doesn't want to go through getting rid of all the toys again; any parent will relate). We talk about the parallel of hiking in the mountains to parenting - how we move through waves, the hi...
May 10, 2024•37 min
Today on the podcast we connect with the incredible Cedna Todorovic, a Calgary-based portrait photographer. But Cedna is so much more than a photographer, she captures the majesty of the person, their history and their desires in just one pose. We cannot express how special this woman is. Cedna talks about taking the leap from Oil and Gas, where she was never able to truly express and be the person she is today. While running her own business is exhausting, and incredibly more demanding than her...
Apr 14, 2024•38 min
Today on the podcast we meet Sarah Fowler, a tech industry mom who is raising her daughter in an idyllic mountain town. We talk about living away from family, traveling with and without kids, the importance of solo trips, and how it really helps to have a village of supporters to raise our littles.
Apr 13, 2024•25 min
On the podcast we connect with the incredible Katherine Sinex, a deep thinker, an engineer with a passion for human behaviour and training in psychology, a negotiator (listen to the podcast for more on this exciting element of Katherine), creative, and so much more. We travel back in time to Katherine's work in New Orleans navigating long days, commutes as a dual-income family with a young baby and no family support. We delve into our own "supposed tos" as parents - what we think we should be do...
Mar 19, 2024•55 min
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' in...
Mar 03, 2024•39 min
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' in...
Feb 17, 2024•39 min
Amanda, Angela and Morgan, The Working Mother Experience executive team in Canada, celebrate the successes of 2023 and share what they're excited about in 2024. This is both a personal and professional sharing session where they touch on their words for 2024, why they selected them and how they are sitting with them. They reflect on the wins of 2023 for themselves and The Working Mother Experience and their hopes and aspirations for 2024. The list is long, highlighting they have so much to be gr...
Jan 21, 2024•35 min
Today on the podcast we meet Erin Smith and Saphina Waters, co-founders of The Debut Collective, an organization dedicated to supporting working mothers thrive after having children and returning to the workplace. They offer a variety of unique programs and services to help mothers connect with and celebrate their new identity - we highly recommend you check them out! We discuss that each return to work can be different; different emotions, different return structures, and different experiences ...
Jan 16, 2024•38 min
Today on the podcast we hear from the ever-inspiring Amanda Lapadat. Amanda and Morgan, the Working Mother Experience Founder, have known eachother for a long time, close to 23 years. Amanda and Morgan went to the same highschool in Guelph, ON; however, Morgan thinks she remembers Amanda a lot better than Amanda remembers her. Amanda, now a Canadian expat residing in Sweden with her husband and two children, has taken on the role of International Director for The Working Mother Experience in add...
Dec 14, 2023•46 min
Meredith Hendriks is a force of resilience and strength. Knowing Meredith for close to a decade, I've had the vantage point of seeing her move through adversity, accidents, setbacks and many personal challenges that would have made most crumble. In this raw interview, Meredith opens up about these moments and how she has persevered despite them. A teacher by training, Meredith has taken two years off work due to an injury and ongoing challenges associated with a concussion. As she shares, you ca...
Dec 14, 2023•49 min
In this episode, we connect with Amelia Larson, Clinical Social Worker, entrepreneur, working mother, former foster parent and artist. Using the analogy of the "Window of Tolerance", Amelia helps us to understand how, when, and why our respective and metaphorical windows start to get tighter and tighter, letting little to no breeze through. She helps us to understand that when this happens, we teeter on the edge of burnout and illness for we need fresh air, movement and light to flourish. Furthe...
Nov 17, 2023•42 min
Today on the podcast we meet the incredibly creative, insightful and kind Margaret Dahlberg, known in Calgary as Ms. Tweetie. Margaret is a local celebrity amongst children who enjoy her Music in Nature program or private music lessons AND is an internally recognized composer and musical performer. We are so lucky to be able to showcase one of her original compositions in our virtual gallery. Margaret opens up about her original music, Mountaintop, a composition she created to parallel the exper...
Nov 03, 2023•52 min
In this mini debrief, our founder, Morgan, shares some incredibly exciting updates for The Working Mother Experience; that's right, we are going international with our first team member living abroad and hosting our inaugural art exhibit this fall in Calgary, AB. Welcome, Amanda Lapadat to our growing team; we can't wait to see where you take us. To help inspire other creative works to showcase at the live exhibit, Morgan provides some prompts to help move through any inner barriers to accessing...
Jul 18, 2023•14 min
Today on the podcast we connect with Karen Davis, high-school math teacher, mind-blowing crafter, dog-lover, mother and so much more. Karen shares her journey creating her art piece, her feelings of uncertainty using a template and her cricut machine, and her feelings about the piece and where she hangs it. We are so grateful to Karen her submission enables The Working Mother Experience to showcase a new art medium to our growing community to inspire a new avenue for expression. We delve into pa...
Jun 06, 2023•39 min
Today on the podcast we connect with Emma Pimm, artist, working mother and one of the first participants in The Working Mother Experience's newest offerings, the Unleashing Your Inner Creative workplace art session. Emma talks about her unique art piece featuring her as a bobblehead, pulled by her children from the dark into the light. As a bobblehead, she explains, she finds it so easy to 'bobble' one from one direction to the next, to be pulled from her centre so easily, and how it takes so mu...
Apr 24, 2023•31 min
Theresa Maxwell, a former lawyer now professional figurative artist, mother of three daughters, and community volunteer shares her story on the podcast, intermingling a variety of lessons learned and nuggets of gold for our listeners. As a professional artist, Theresa deeply understands and accepts that the artistic process takes time. She encourages listeners and future artistic contributors to The Working Mother Experience to "give [themselves] permission to take [their] time". She likens the ...
Mar 27, 2023•31 min
The Working Mother Experience team is proud to celebrate its third International Women's Day together! In celebration of this day, we virtually connected to discuss the Tallest Poppy Syndrome study findings - what we thought, our own experience as tall poppies, and our call to action to men and women to help lift others up versus tear them down. We delve into discerning the difference between criticism and feedback, what it means to "too much" or "too ambitious", how we participate in our own cr...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min
