<p>🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW<br /><br />In this powerful conversation, Bryony sits down with Katherine Wintsch - bestselling author of Slay Like a Mother and founder of The Mom Complex - to explore what happens when high-achieving women finally stop hiding.<br /><br />Katherine has spent her career consulting for Fortune 500 companies, helping them build better products for mothers but her most transformative work has been in the discovery that women everywhere, regardless of culture, are pretending to be fine when they're not.<br /><br />🔑 KEY THEMES COVERED:<br /><br />• The "leaky bucket" - why external accolades never fill you up from the inside<br />• Studying mothers in 17 countries and the universal mask women wear<br />• Imposter syndrome reframed: why it's an environment problem, not a personal failing<br />• The McKinsey data - for every 100 men promoted, only 55 women of colour are promoted<br />• Creating psychological safety so women can speak their truth at work<br />• How vulnerability, not hiding, is what earns real admiration<br />• Redefining success on your own terms - when is enough, enough?<br />• Soul care vs self care: building systems that protect you long-term<br />• Katherine's "personal board of directors" and conscious decision not to grow<br />• Running a $2M company with 7 people - intentionally flat, intentionally enough<br /><br />💬 STANDOUT QUOTES:<br /><br />"If you're only putting half truths out into the world, you'll only ever feel half loved back."<br /><br />"When is it enough? When can you say what I am doing is enough and who I am is enough?"<br /><br />"Self care is taking a bubble bath. Soul care is building systems that protect you."<br /><br />"It's one big honesty party - and it has to come from the top, bottom, and the middle."<br /><br />📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:<br /><br />• Slay Like a Mother by Katherine Wintsch<br />• The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav<br />• McKinsey &amp; <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://LeanIn.org" target="_blank">LeanIn.org</a> Women in the Workplace Report<br />• The Mom Complex (consulting company)<br />• Katherine's TEDx Talk, Richmond Virginia 2013<br /><br />🔗 CONNECT WITH KATHERINE:<br />• Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://themomcomplex.com" target="_blank">themomcomplex.com</a><br />• Book: Slay Like a Mother (available everywhere books are sold)<br />• LinkedIn: Katherine Wintsch</p>