Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
How To Take Parental Leave When You're an Entrepreneur.... Or a Workaholic
28 Nov 2024
Today, Nicole opens up about how she's been thinking about taking parental leave; from the logistical side of taking time off as a self-employed person to the emotional side of stepping away from your work, when you're someone who defines yourself by your work. In this episode, you'll hear a preview of a conversation Nicole had on the podcast she cohosts with Entrepreneur Magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer, where Jason shares how he and his wife figured out these logistical and emotional questions and how Nicole (and any Money Rehabbers interested in being parents!) can too.
Full Episode
I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. It's time for some money rehab. So this pregnancy thing is no joke, you guys. I am nine months pregnant, which has felt like 900 months. If you didn't know I was pregnant, by the way, surprise, I did mention it in my episode with Senator Gillibrand. But other than that, I've been keeping it pretty private.
I have processed a lot of big life moments publicly. And this totally insane but amazing experience of growing a small human is something that I wanted to just process with me and my husband. But But I do kind of need to talk about it now because my daughter could come truly any second now. Hosting a daily podcast is not so conducive to taking a maternity leave.
And beyond this type of work I do, I'm also someone who has always defined myself by work. So I'm really struggling with the idea of taking time off in general. So today you're going to hear an episode of the podcast Help Wanted that I co-host with the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, Jason Pfeiffer.
In this episode, I talked to Jason about how I've been trying to be open-minded about taking Matt leave. And Jason gives me some advice based on his own experience taking leave after he and his wife had their two kids. But before I share that episode, I want to tell you first what money rehab is going to look like for the next few weeks.
Today and tomorrow are my last episodes of Money Rehab for now, not forever, because even though my daughter has not been born yet, I can barely breathe. I can barely get through all of these sentences. I am so pregnant right now. Yes, these are the fun things that nobody tells you about pregnancy, by the way.
But even though tomorrow will be my last episode of Money Rehab for a beat, it's not the last episode of Money Rehab. Don't worry, because while I'm out, we're actually doing something that I think you're really going to love. The show, of course, must go on. I would not leave you money rehabbers hanging.
And so the show is going to be guest hosted by some of the smartest people I know, like Tracy DiNunzio, who built and sold the luxury resale company Tradesy. Peter Tuchman, the stockbroker you know and love, fellow MNN podcast host who reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Minda Hart, who's the bestselling author of The Memo and is an expert on workplace culture.
Moe Shwanunu, who's been a journalist with me for 500 years and hosts my favorite daily podcast, Moe News, which is actually joining the MNN family. So, yay. Claire Wasserman, who is an expert on pay negotiation. Real estate agent extraordinaire, John Grauman. Attorney, but a very cool one, Pamela Maas, aka Law Mother on Instagram. And our very own EP, Morgan Lavoie and more.
You'll hear more about that tomorrow in an episode that is all about budgeting for babies and some more sappiness. But in the meantime, here's my conversation with Jason.
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