02:58 – Abby discusses her career journey and how each role helped her see how different sectors, corporate, public, and non-profit, create social impact.
08:58 – Abby explains how a class she took in grad school has been instrumental in how she and her husband managing work and family life.
12:18 – Abby shares how working with a coach was helpful as she and her husband make big career and child decisions.
16:16 – Abby explains the importance of getting the logistics right in order to have a smoother return to work after maternity leave.
21:12 – Abby shares the critical elements that are necessary to make having a big job while having kids possible.
27:25 – We learn how Abby overcomes her perfectionistic tendencies regarding work and how she’s become better at knowing where the bar needs to be.
33:24 – Brass Tacks— The lightning round of concrete advice and tips.
Quotable quotes:
- “Working parents are some of the most efficient people on the planet when it comes to getting their work done.”
- “It’s not a balancing but a juggle. There are always going to be multiple balls in the air and you are inevitably going to drop some balls. The trick is figuring out which balls are rubber and if you drop they bounce back up, and which ones are glass, and if you drop them they will break and be gone forever.”
- “Trust that things have a way of working themselves out and once you let go a little bit and stop holding so tightly to something that you think you really want, that’s when it really happens.”
