243 - How we’re (currently) prepping/planning our parental leave

Growing Steady | Intentional Creative Business Podcast

With just a few months to go before our Tiny Zook 🐣 arrives (!), we’re sharing how we’re approaching parental leave—not as a step-by-step guide, but as a real-time snapshot of our intentions, plans, and mindset.

Whether you’re expecting, planning a business sabbatical, or just curious about building more space into your business, this one’s for you. Here’s what we covered:

• The values guiding our decision to take this time seriously: calm, presence, rest, and bonding
• Our loose timeline, including a pre-baby wind-down and giving ourselves permission to take the rest of the year off starting in August
• What business adjustments we’re making now (like our final WAIM launch and Teachery transition)
• The emotional and logistical prep we’re doing behind the scenes
• What we’re still figuring out—and why we’re okay not having all the answers

This season of life is calling for softer schedules, deeper presence, and more trust in the unknown. We hope this episode encourages you to honor your own rhythms—whatever chapter you’re in.

📺 Shows we’re loving: White Lotus, The Jackal, The Pitt

🍿 Movies we’re loving: Taking of Pelham 123 and Companion

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