79. Rethinking Your Role as a Parent and an Entrepreneur with Sarah Peck

Jul 19, 2021

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Hey you wild women!

My next guest is the founder and CEO of Startup Parent and the host of The Startup Parent Podcast, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting. Sarah Peck runs The Wise Women's Council, an annual leadership program for women to come together honestly while navigating the challenges of working and parenting.

In 2011, Sarah began consulting with Y-Combinator backed startups, and launched her own consultancy in 2013. Today, her company focuses on the narratives we share (and the ones we don't share) about work, parenting, and motherhood.

Sarah is also a 20-time NCAA All-American swimmer and has successfully swum the Escape from Alcatraz nine separate times, once doing the swim totally naked as a way to raise $33k for charity. Her writing and work has been featured on Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. She lives in New York City with her family.

In this episode you will learn about:

Sarah's swimming background and how it has impacted her life today
How we should be questioning what society deems as 'normal' for parents
Sarah's values as a parent and how they challenge traditional ideas
What she considers to be her biggest business mistake
How she gets over the voice in her head that says 'it's not possible'
How Sarah feels about cancel culture
How society and the media encourages the conversations around cancel culture
What inspired her to start her company
Why she changed the name of her company
Sarah's views on how the workplace should adapt to support pregnant and nursing mothers
Why employers should be more supportive of women who take maternity leave
How policy and leadership affect public relations
What she wishes people understood about parenting
Why she feels we are all responsible for each other and our children, even if you don't have children of your own
Why she feels 'good enough' is good enough when it comes to parenting
How she integrates time with her family and her business

HIGHLIGHTS

(25:28) What inspired you to start Startup Parent?

(38:58) What do you wish more people understood about parenting?

(40:55) What do you wish were different in society?

(43:17) What's one message you really wish women could take to heart?

(48:00) How do you balance running your businesses and your personal life?

Public Shoutouts:

Book: Angel by Jason Calacanis
Book: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
Public Figure: Philip McKernan
Book: Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu
Book: Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

Resources:

What it means to be a wild woman:

"Free on your own terms. Freedom to follow your joy." - Sarah Peck

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

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