We talked about her path from fine art photography to tech, being the first female engineer at her company, being promoted to director while on maternity leave, and exercising her company's take-it-when-you-need-it vacation and flexible remote work policies after her official maternity leave ended.

• @not_pele on Twitter
• What Happens to a Woman's Brain When She Becomes a Mother
• Women in Software Engineering Self-Reported Statistics
• Managing Humans book
• Girl Develop It Philadelphia

We talked about her experience starting a moms group at work, helping the company to improve reboarding moms after leave, including the importance of having managers and HR practice conversations, asking for and iterating based on employee feedback, and her findings on setting up the ideal mothers' room.

@jcsuperstar on Twitter

Podcasts: The Broad Experience, Planet Money, Freakonomics, This American Life, The Moth, Reply All

Audiobook: Bringing Up Bébé

Childcare: San Francisco Children's Council, Bananas (Oakland and Alameda County)

Notes

• SmartyPal
• @smartypalapps on Twitter
• SmartyPal on Facebook

Notes

• Elided Branches
• @skamille on Twitter
• Rent the Runway

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• GitHub

Notes

• Anil Dash
• @anildash on Twitter
• ThinkUp
• The Good Web Bundle

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• GitHub

Notes

• Rebecca Murphey
• @rmurphey on Twitter

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• GitHub

We talked about the perils of going back to work too early and how her leave plan pivoted, her strategies for working remotely when baby is in the next room, and the status of soft skills or identifying as a woman in tech when you're not an engineer.

Notes

• sarapyle1 on Twitter

Sponsor

• GitHub

We talked about her former heavy travel schedule that required going through TSA with breastmilk, and about learning not to measure yourself against unattainable standards.

Notes

• Kelly Shearon
• kcshearon on Twitter

Sponsor

• GitHub

We talked about studying digital animation during its early days, going back to work when you’re not well yet and helping colleagues and bosses understand a disability.

Notes

• Rise Riyo
• riseriyo on Twitter
• Molecular Flipbook
• Janet Iwasa’s TED Talk

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• GitHub

Notes

• Jen Myers
• antiheroine on Twitter
• High Visibility Project
• Code and Cupcakes

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• GitHub

We talked about her journey from engineering to sales, how older kids require attention that can’t be outsourced, and about focusing on the trade-offs that you’re happy to make.

Sponsor

• Heroku

We talked about setting up a nursing room in an office that didn’t have one, setting screen time limits with her pre-teens, and asking for what you need.

Notes

• La Leche League

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• Heroku

We talked about how helping companies see the benefits of flexibility, blogging about managing family schedules, and her approach to taking on more challenging roles.

Notes

• Organizing Dreen
• @dreen317 on twitter

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• Heroku

We talked about mentorship and majoring in computer science, the stresses of an international move during her pregnancy, and maternity benefits including on-site prenatal massage.

Notes

• Google Jobs

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• Heroku

We talked about breaking the pregnancy news to her boss (Twitter co-founder Ev Williams), being the first to use maternity leave and how much the company changed while she was out, and her strategies for parenting equally.

Notes

• @jean on medium
• @jyhsu on twitter
• Baby Bumps and Beyond the Bump on reddit
• Baby Connect android/iphone app

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• Heroku

We talked about making open source software with inviting user experiences, how working at the same company as her spouse made parental benefits more complicated, and why she bought a single unit washer-dryer.

Notes

• blog.linuxgrrl.com
• @mairin

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• Heroku