The Impossible Juggle: Why Flexibility Matters for Working Moms—And What’s Still Missing

Being a working mom is hard. Being a working mom with a child who has extreme medical needs? That’s a whole other level. In our first episode, host Jess Davies and Katie Martin, EVP of marketing agency Front Row talk about their personal stories of navigating intense caregiving journeys while juggling careers, and how they spent three years sending each other daily voice notes – across different continents – sharing the raw, unfiltered realities of balancing work and motherhood in impossible circumstances. We also bring in sociologist and author Jessica Calarco, who unpacks why working moms across the U.S. are struggling more than ever, and Kelly Jones, chief people officer at Cisco, who explains why companies need to go beyond just offering benefits — they need to embed flexibility into their culture to truly support and retain working moms.

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The Impossible Juggle: Why Flexibility Matters for Working Moms—And What’s Still Missing is an episode from The Return.

This episode is 37:10 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2025.

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