What If You’re Not Sure? An Honest Take on Career, Identity + Motherhood with Ruthie Ackerman

Ruthie Ackerman always knew she wanted to be a writer, but wasn't so sure about becoming a Mother. Her breakout memoir The Mother Code captures the ambivalence so many women feel but rarely say out loud. In this conversation, Ruthie shares how she unpretzeled herself from others’ expectations, navigated fertility and heartbreak, used a donor egg to have her daughter, and ultimately discovered herself through caregiving as a Mother. A smart, honest look at identity, desire, and becoming a Mother on your own terms.Highlights:🤷‍♀️ Normalizing the honest ambivalence so many feel toward motherhood✨ Giving herself permission to be a self-actualized human AND a Mother🥨 Unpretzeling from everyone else’s expectations to hear our own wants⏳ Navigating the competing timelines of fertility + dating💼 The wild standards we hold our work to in order to justify time away from kids💛 The surprising joy + self-understanding she found in becoming a MotherPurchase The Mother Code! Follow The Mothers for more interviews with the extraordinary leaders, creators, and thinkers shaping our world about how their identity, purpose and ambition have evolved alongside career and motherhood. Raw, smart, and deeply human, these conversations help us all get closer to who we really are and what we really want.IG & YT // @themotherspodThe Mothers is a production of Backline Media.