working motherhood

You can handle hard conversations, boardroom politics, rejection in your own life. But watching your child hurt? That takes you out. Here's the SNAP Method in real time — for the mom who can't sleep, who's spiraling at 4am, who knows what she's feeling isn't just worry. It's something heavier.

Working mothers keep falling behind because of two overlapping barriers: the "broken rung"—the missed first step up to manager—and the motherhood penalty, a measurable drop in pay and promotion after childbirth. In this transatlantic collaboration with executive coach and former midwife Rachel Erasmus, Erica unpacks the data, the identity shift no one prepares you for, the manager moments that make or break a return, and nine proven fixes to keep women rising. The problem isn

Since January 2025, more than 212,000 women have left the U.S. workforce, and a closer look shows it's overwhelmingly mothers with young children. Flexible work is vanishing, inclusive workplaces are retreating, affordable childcare is still nowhere to be found. Erica calls it what it is: the Mom Exodus. Drawing on her own return from maternity leave a decade ago, she breaks down why moms are leaving, what it costs all of us, and what has to change before the ripple effects l

For many women, life feels like an endless checklist—excel at work, be present at home, stay healthy, run the household, carve out self-care—and yet it never feels like enough. That persistent sense of inadequacy has a name: the guilt gap. It isn't a personal shortcoming; it's cultural conditioning, systemic bias, and impossible standards that tell women they should be excelling everywhere, all the time. Erica unpacks where the guilt gap comes from, how it drains confidence a

More than 212,000 women have left the workforce since January. Most are mothers between 25 and 44, the exact years when careers are supposed to take off. The cause? Return-to-office mandates, $10,000 childcare bills, and a caregiving load that still falls on women. Here's why this is an economic crisis, and what has to change.