Elise Wei is an Elise is an Engineering Director at Monetate with an 18-month-old daughter.

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...

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Jenni Snyder is a MySQL DBA at Yelp, with a 15-month-old daughter.

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:

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Prasanna Krishnan is CEO and co-founder of SmartyPal, with a 4-year-old son & expecting her second child.

Notes

• SmartyPal
• @smartypalapps on Twitter
• SmartyPal on Facebook

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Camille Fournier is CTO at Rent the Runway with a toddler son.

Notes

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

Sponsor

• GitHub

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Anil Dash is co-founder and CEO of ThinkUp and has a 3.5-year-old son.

Notes

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

Sponsor

• GitHub

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Rebecca Murphey is a staff software engineer at Bazaarvoice and has an 16-month-old son.

Notes

• Rebecca Murphey
• @rmurphey on Twitter

Sponsor

• GitHub

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Sara Pyle is a Supportocat at Github with a 15-month-old daughter.

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

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Kelly Shearon is Director of Marketing at Github, and a single parent to her 4.5-year-old son.

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

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Rise Riyo is a full stack developer with a seven-year-old daughter.

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

Sponsor

• GitHub

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Jen Myers is founder of the High Visibility Project and Code and Cupcakes. She has an eight-year-old daughter.

Notes

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

Sponsor

• GitHub

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Gretchen* is an Independent Consultant with two kids: a six-year-old and a thirteen-year-old.

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

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