Episode 3: Dr. Anne Welsch and Her New Book "Ambitious Mother"

www.buildthingsthatmatter.comWhat if the finish line you've been grinding toward is actually a starting line? That's how Dr. Anne Welsh describes the release of her first book.Dr. Anne Welsh, PhD, PMH-C, PCC, is a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach who began her career at Harvard University Health Services and has spent nearly two decades helping working parents and women leaders thrive. She's a mother of four, founder of a successful coaching and therapy practice, and creator of the Working Mothers Lifeline and the Ambitious Mothers Mastermind. Now she's poured everything she knows into Ambitious Mother: From Surviving to Thriving in Your Career and at Home, out August 6 from Bloomsbury with a foreword by Robin Arzón.In this conversation, Anne takes apart the false choice between being good at your job and being a good mom. She explains why working motherhood hit a fever pitch, what she calls the motherhood advantage, and her model of healthy striving, which starts with one disarming question: what are you actually ambitious for? And because she refuses to treat any of this as an individual failure ("if most of the class fails the test, a good teacher looks at the test"), the book includes a chapter for workplaces and a chapter for male partners and allies. As Anne puts it, the system stuff needs to happen, but if we only wait for it, we're leaving women in the lurch.Along the way: the borrowed confidence from her own coach that turned a “little idea" into a Bloomsbury book, the Peloton pep talks that fuel her mornings, and the moment her husband answered her book-tour guilt with "Have you read your own book?"How you can support Anne (her asks)?Buy the book! Buy it for your friends, for the working moms in your life, and for your HR head (earmark the chapter on how workplaces can help)B&N- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ambitious-mother-anne-welsh/1148672749Or on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Anne-Welsh/dp/B0FZCZ9QY6In Boston? Join her launch party on August 6Catch her on tour over the next month in New York, Raleigh, and Philadelphia https://www.drannewelsh.comConnect with her on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/drannewelsh/Find more about our host, Nicole Alos, ICF-PCC, CEC at www.NicoleAlos.comMusic licensed through Soundstripe.Code: F4ZFDHBTZUGMGLKEAll Rights Reserved Socratyc, LLC 2026.Brought to you by Socratyc and Socratyc Sidekick3271 / 4000