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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, tiffl.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: in which I'm recording this podcast, the Wardari people of

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Speaker 1: the Cooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders past

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Speaker 1: and present. Today I have Genevieve Day joining me on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. She founded Day Management, one of Australia's first

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Speaker 1: digital talent management agencies, in twenty fifteen. She has been

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Speaker 1: recognized for her work by the Australian Financial Review Fast

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Speaker 1: one hundred and she was named in Forbes thirty Under thirty.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, her debut book The Juggle launched,

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Speaker 1: interviewing well known founders and business minds on how they

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Speaker 1: mix career and family, while sharing her own story as

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Speaker 1: both founder and mother. Jen Welcome to Bounce Forward. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited to have you here. Now you're the author

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Speaker 1: of The Juggle. I want to ask you, what does

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Speaker 1: your life look like juggling your career and your gorgeous

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Speaker 1: little son Henry.

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Speaker 2: Now, oh my.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it is such a juggle, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: something that every working mum and even stay home mum

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Speaker 3: can relate to. Basically, at the moment, my son is

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Speaker 3: fourteen months old, so is at a beautiful stage where

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Speaker 3: he can't communicate, but he loves to try and be independent,

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Speaker 3: So that in itself is a fun day to day challenge.

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Speaker 2: And I run an.

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Speaker 3: Influencer marketing and talent agency call Day Management as well,

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Speaker 3: and we have a team of eight employees. We look

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Speaker 3: after over fifty talents, so quite a big business in

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Speaker 3: that capacity. So we try and you know, smash everything

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Speaker 3: into each day and definitely don't do it perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Wow, how do you like, what's your childcare situation? Like?

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Speaker 2: How do you juggle that? For example? Just the practical

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Speaker 2: side of it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I love talking about this because I think

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Speaker 3: from the outside, everyone's day looks so perfect and like,

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Speaker 3: how are they doing it all? I have him in

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Speaker 3: daycare two days a week, and then we have family

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Speaker 3: support two days a week as well, which we're so

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Speaker 3: lucky and privileged to have.

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Speaker 2: Our parents willing and able to look out.

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Speaker 3: And then we on the Fridays, my partner and I

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Speaker 3: kind of do a split work day in a Henry Day.

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Speaker 2: So basically I have.

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Speaker 3: Four days a week of like full support and then

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Speaker 3: get three days of beautiful Henry time.

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Speaker 1: That is a juggle itself, just juggling the schedule of

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Speaker 1: childcare and cares around work, juggling. So there's a juggle

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Speaker 1: on top of a juggle, isn't there. It's just so difficult.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to your pregnancy. What was

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Speaker 1: your pregnancy like, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We started trying, I guess a couple of months after

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Speaker 3: we got married. We always knew wanted to have a family,

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Speaker 3: but I've been running this business now for nine and

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Speaker 3: a half years, so we knew that it wasn't as

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Speaker 3: simple as like putting in your request from.

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Speaker 2: That leave and having a baby.

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Speaker 3: So we kind of approach it quite pragmatically, thinking, all right,

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Speaker 3: so if I'm going to be pregnant, out of the game, not,

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Speaker 3: as you know, able to do as many things because

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Speaker 3: I have a baby. So we actually employed a general

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Speaker 3: everything around the pregnancy, which you know is also really

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Speaker 3: hard to time when you're going to fall pregnant. But

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Speaker 3: during that process, we were kind of putting these steps

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Speaker 3: And I also just felt this like overwhelming fear that

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Speaker 3: of all my career ambitions and everything I've been working

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Speaker 3: so hard for was going to you know, come to

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Speaker 3: a halt. So well, the pregnancy itself was lucky to

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Speaker 3: be straightforward and not too many complications. I kind of

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Speaker 3: felt like I had this big ticking clock of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really hard, and I felt that myself. When

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Speaker 1: I was pregnant with my first Arnold. I was running

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Speaker 1: horrendous pregnancy, so I was like, oh, how am I

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Speaker 1: emails from the hospital after I had Arnold, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was working from the hospital bed. And I regret that,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't do it with my second. Did you

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Speaker 3: a contract negotiation, and I've given birth twelve hours beforehand,

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Speaker 3: hemorrhaged and lost almost two leads of blood and like,

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Speaker 3: so I wasn't in the best situation to be emailing

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Speaker 3: about like a contract dispute.

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Speaker 2: But that was kind of my reality.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of people that I interview in the

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Speaker 3: books are the exact same thing that you just said,

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Speaker 3: that they took no time off. They went straight back

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Speaker 3: into it out of a fear of necessity or that

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Speaker 3: scarcity mindset that you know, other people will get opportunities

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Speaker 3: over us if we don't say yes to everything and

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Speaker 3: be available. And I think that's something that I also

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Speaker 3: really regret, and I would definitely do that differently.

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Speaker 1: What have you learnt from being a working mum now? Like,

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Speaker 1: what are the biggest lessons and takeaways?

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Speaker 2: That's such a great question.

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Speaker 3: I think perspective is such a beautiful gift, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: The second that you have kids, you're like, Okay, life

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Speaker 3: isn't just about me, And that's brilliant. And I feel

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Speaker 3: like pre kids, you're able to be quite selfish and

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Speaker 3: you just think about your own schedule and what you

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Speaker 2: It's all about the baby.

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Speaker 3: And it's kind of been like a beautiful shifted perspective.

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Speaker 3: Especially in my work life. Things obviously are important, but

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Speaker 3: you walk in the front door and you have to

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Speaker 3: leave that all behind because I'm like, I can't be

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Speaker 3: stressing about this. I have a fourteen month old demanding

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Speaker 1: Yes, can you switch off?

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Speaker 2: I struggle.

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Speaker 1: I only struggle, like I've got work group WhatsApps and

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Speaker 1: as you know, never sleeps, yeah, and I find myself

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Speaker 2: Do you struggle with that as well? One hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: It's so tricky being in this online world because you're

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Speaker 3: have to be contactable. So I'm actually really bad at

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Speaker 3: but I'm checking my phone at the same time, and

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, that's the cow, says Mood. I'm actually

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Speaker 3: to be a more present parent with that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: But it's really really hard.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any tips for like balancing that side

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Speaker 1: of things work and your beautiful child? Like, how do

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Speaker 1: you do that? Do you put your phone in a

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Speaker 2: I should do that.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I should really throw my phone out

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Speaker 3: do the reverse where I try and run my personal

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Speaker 3: booking in time with my husband and everything like that,

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Speaker 3: if it's scheduled the way that my work life is scheduled,

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Speaker 2: Stick to it. And then that way I can kind.

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Speaker 3: Of get that like three sixty view of the week

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Speaker 3: and think is this balance or have I chipped too

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Speaker 3: tick off my career goals this week? So it's definitely

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Speaker 3: not perfect. But I find if you run your home

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Speaker 3: the most valuable places, that's really helped me.

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Speaker 1: That's really good advice. That's really good advice. Yeah, outsourcing,

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Speaker 1: big fan of it. What what are some of the

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Speaker 1: things that you've outsourced that you think, Oh, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a bit weird. Like I outsource indoor plants, Like

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Speaker 2: Like what about you? What what do your outsource?

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Speaker 3: Definitely, food for us was a big one, especially starting

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Speaker 2: Have the time talk to me about it. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 3: So we just bought like the La Puree packs so

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Speaker 3: And so things like that where I can make life

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Speaker 3: And then also we got a cleaner and like that's

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, I don't have time at the moment

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know everyone can do that, but we're

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Speaker 2: Yes, to spend more time as a family in quality time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I love that. So when my

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Speaker 1: I looked back at like my previous mistakes of like

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Speaker 1: not taking any time off and just I rushed back

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Speaker 2: I got a few injuries and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, I said to my husband, ed,

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Speaker 1: We're going to do like a mental wellness plan going

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Speaker 1: into the next pregnancy, and we're going to know exactly,

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Speaker 1: you know, how to prepare for life with a baby,

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Speaker 1: what support we need to give each other, what support

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Speaker 1: we need to outsource, like all that, And I listed

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Speaker 1: everything and then I circulated it to grandparents and friends

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Speaker 1: and everyone knew when they were on pickup for Arnold,

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Speaker 2: You know, what things did you do you talk to.

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Speaker 1: Your partner about when you're preparing for the baby and

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Speaker 1: Oh so it is amazing.

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Speaker 3: It was so great because it may we're on the

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Speaker 3: previously it's like trying to build two big careers at once,

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Speaker 3: and there's like a wrestle then, isn't it. It's like, well,

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Speaker 3: I need you home at this time, and he's like,

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Speaker 3: about two years ago. But we had a lot of

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Speaker 3: worked until I was thirty nine weeks pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And I also like, I just looked so ridiculous. It's

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, dream opportunity, Like, of course I'd

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Speaker 3: and I said, oh, my due date is September ten,

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Speaker 3: So like I put myself in those situations where I was,

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Speaker 3: we have to put time aside to rest, but then

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Speaker 3: telling other people, of course, I'll do this opportunity because

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Speaker 3: what if they never asked me again, They've lost my chance.

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Speaker 2: And so I really went against my own advice and

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Speaker 3: I probably had about three days of like maternity leave

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Speaker 2: But I think we.

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Speaker 3: Tried to structure a couple like eight weeks of maternity

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Speaker 2: Was quite funny.

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Speaker 3: I said to my husband, like, I actually just can't

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Speaker 3: even talk about work. I need to just be completely

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Speaker 3: I can't do things half half.

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Speaker 2: The baby bubble yes, and I really wanted to be

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Speaker 2: in it.

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm just going to leave my chat with Jen

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Speaker 1: there and come back with part two. Thanks so much

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