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Matrescence Unfiltered · April 22 · 35 min

The Announcement: The Conversation That Changes Everything

Congratulations, you're pregnant! And now you have to tell work. Telling work you're pregnant is one of the most anxiety-filled moments of a woman's career. Not because anything has gone wrong, but because something has irrevocably changed. This episode is about that conversation and practical things that can help. The rehearsing, the bracing, the relief that doesn't quite arrive the way you expected it to. Bianca shares what it actually felt like to say the words out loud as a senior leader. We get into what the data says, what helps, and what to do if the reaction is one of the bad ones. This episode is for every woman who has ever stood outside a door, taken a breath, and wondered how the next ten minutes were going to change everything.

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Congratulations, you're pregnant! And now you have to tell work.

Telling work you're pregnant is one of the most anxiety-filled moments of a woman's career. Not because anything has gone wrong, but because something has irrevocably changed. This episode is about that conversation and practical things that can help.

The rehearsing, the bracing, the relief that doesn't quite arrive the way you expected it to.

Bianca shares what it actually felt like to say the words out loud as a senior leader.

We get into what the data says, what helps, and what to do if the reaction is one of the bad ones.

This episode is for every woman who has ever stood outside a door, taken a breath, and wondered how the next ten minutes were going to change everything.

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