#113- Ambition, Motherhood and a Broken System: Leaving America and Fighting for Working Mothers - Alexa Starks

She worked while she was in labour. Not because she wanted to. Because no plan existed.And in that moment -- somewhere between contractions and conference calls - Alexa Starks decided she was done helping women survive a broken system. It was time to fix it.So she did something most of us only dream about. She packed up her family, left America, and moved to the Netherlands - for schools that trust children to be children, healthcare that trusts the body to heal, and streets where her children could simply belong.And then she got to work.In this episode:→ Working while in labour - the moment everything changed→ Leaving America - what the decision really cost and what it gave her family→ Executive Moms and Mothered Magazine - why she stopped coaching women to cope and started fixing the system→ The Maternal Strengths Report - 97% of mothers feel they became better leaders. Only 20% had a return to work plan.→ National Working Motherhood Week - one million working mothers, free practical support, this SeptemberThis one is for the mother who has ever quietly survived something that should never have been her problem to solve alone.And for anyone who has looked at the life they built and found the courage to build a better one.