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EPISODE · Jun 15, 2026 · 35 MIN

The Invisible Work Running Your Home And How One Founder Is Solving It | Exclusive Interview with Ashley Chang Dawson, Founder of Sundays

from Between Meetings & Motherhood · host Mothered Media

Two working parents, a baby, and an endless list of mental load no one ever sees — that's the problem Ashley Chang Dawson set out to solve before she even became a mom herself. In this episode of Between Meetings and Motherhood, host Alexa Starks sits down with Ashley, founder of Sundays (withsundays.com) — a service that pairs families with expert executive assistants to take the mental load, logistics, and invisible labor of running a household off mom's plate.Ashley spent over a decade in product management in the San Francisco Bay Area, watched brilliant women around her step back from their careers as soon as they had kids, and decided she wasn't going to let that be her story. What started as an app idea became something much bigger: a team of 40+ mom EAs supporting families across the US — and last year alone, they saved parents 25,000 hours.In this episode:-What Sundays actually does — and why it's a service, not just an app-The mental load of running a family and why it almost always defaults to moms-How to use the Fair Play card system to divide household responsibilities with your partner-Building a company before becoming a mom — and what changed once she actually had a baby-How both she and her husband use Sundays (yes, she uses her own product)-Leaving corporate without a plan, pivoting twice, and finding the right idea-When to hire, how to scale, and why she paid her first employee before paying herself-What patience and resilience look like as leadership skills — and how motherhood leveled both upThe goal: save parents one million hours in the next ten yearsAshley is also featured in the June issue of Mothered Magazine — read the full interview at motheredmagazine.com.Find Sundays: withsundays.com | @withsundays on InstagramFollow @mothered.magazine on Instagram for more behind the scenes of our June features and upcoming issues.Interested in being featured in an upcoming issue? Learn more about feature opportunities here at https://www.motheredmagazine.com/be-featured Follow Alexa Starks on Instagram @alexa.starks

Two working parents, a baby, and an endless list of mental load no one ever sees — that's the problem Ashley Chang Dawson set out to solve before she even became a mom herself. In this episode of Between Meetings and Motherhood, host Alexa Starks sits down with Ashley, founder of Sundays (withsundays.com) — a service that pairs families with expert executive assistants to take the mental load, logistics, and invisible labor of running a household off mom's plate.Ashley spent over a decade in product management in the San Francisco Bay Area, watched brilliant women around her step back from their careers as soon as they had kids, and decided she wasn't going to let that be her story. What started as an app idea became something much bigger: a team of 40+ mom EAs supporting families across the US — and last year alone, they saved parents 25,000 hours.In this episode:-What Sundays actually does — and why it's a service, not just an app-The mental load of running a family and why it almost always defaults to moms-How to use the Fair Play card system to divide household responsibilities with your partner-Building a company before becoming a mom — and what changed once she actually had a baby-How both she and her husband use Sundays (yes, she uses her own product)-Leaving corporate without a plan, pivoting twice, and finding the right idea-When to hire, how to scale, and why she paid her first employee before paying herself-What patience and resilience look like as leadership skills — and how motherhood leveled both upThe goal: save parents one million hours in the next ten yearsAshley is also featured in the June issue of Mothered Magazine — read the full interview at motheredmagazine.com.Find Sundays: withsundays.com | @withsundays on InstagramFollow @mothered.magazine on Instagram for more behind the scenes of our June features and upcoming issues.Interested in being featured in an upcoming issue? Learn more about feature opportunities here at https://www.motheredmagazine.com/be-featured Follow Alexa Starks on Instagram @alexa.starks

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