Kate Torgersen discusses the rewards and demands of being a working mother!

Mindfulness at Work

Kate Torgersen is the founder of Milk Stork, the first and only breast milk travel solution for working moms. In this episode, we discuss the challenges working moms face going back to work just weeks after having a child or going back at 12 weeks, which is some arbitrary number, and in either case, means the baby is not eating solid foods yet. She wants to know why we don’t have federally regulated paid leave for parents. We also discuss the need for affordable, universal, federally supported child care. After the stay at home order it's obvious to us, that high quality child care, higher paid teachers and higher paid care givers is imperative to help level the playing field and support working parents in our corporate culture.

Kate also explains her personal reason for founding Milk Stork. After the birth of her twins, she needed and wanted to travel for work but it proved to be immensely difficult. She faced a dilemma, either travel for her job OR breast feed her babies. There was no way to do both without compromising her career, her breast-milk production, or her well-being. She thought, "I can't believe other women haven't experienced this or this problem hasn't been solved before". Ascribing to the belief that necessity is the mother of invention, she further said to herself, “If not me, then who ? If not now, then when?". She felt compelled to figure out an answer and opened an operation that allows for all working moms to travel and breastfeed efficiently. Kate shares all this wisdom and more, in our rich discussion.

Born out of necessity since the stay at home order, she now offers products made with love by Moms, for Moms! Find them at The Mothershop™ https://www.milkstork.com/shop

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