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Look Both Ways Podcast
by Jenna Randolph
Look Both Ways is a podcast about building careers while raising children, and the stories of women who are doing both. Hosted by Jenna Randolph, each episode dives into honest conversations about ambition, identity, resilience, and motherhood.From career reinvention to burnout, from raising babies to letting them go, from chasing dreams to rebuilding from scratch — Look Both Ways explores what happens when we let ourselves be fully human: messy, brilliant, complicated, and constantly evolving.This is the space where women stop apologizing for wanting more, tell the truth about the hard parts, and learn to trust the journey — even when it looks nothing like they planned. lookbothwayspod.substack.com
Episodes
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Passionate, Beautiful, Chaos: Kathleen Ferguson on Grief, Grit & Betting on Herself
We talk about resilience like it’s a personality trait. We don’t talk nearly enough about what it looks like while you’re inside it. The messy middle.The destructive phase.The fork in the road where you either keep numbing… or you decide to build. This week I sat down with Kathleen Ferguson....
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Intentional, Becoming, Unbecoming: Lindsay Tigar on Writing Her Own Next Chapter
We talk a lot about following your dreams.Not nearly enough about what it looks like to follow them before everything is figured out. This week, I sat down with Lindsay Tigar, award-winning journalist, fractional brand and storytelling executive, and mother of two, who is packing up her family…
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Everything that Matters: Hillary Applegate on Choosing Her Own Path
How Hillary Applegate Designed a Career She Never Had to Choose Between We talk a lot about women “doing it all.” Not nearly enough about the women who actually planned for it. This week I sat down with Hillary Applegate, founder and CEO of Digital HQ, a social-first marketing agency working with...
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Bumpy, Exciting, Rewarding: Margot Denommé from Crown Attorney to Digital Safety Advocate
We spend a lot of time talking about building a career with a clear destination in mind. Not nearly enough time talking about what happens when that destination evolves. In this week’s episode, I sat down with Margot Denommé, and in a lot of ways, she always knew what she wanted to do. At 12…
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Intentional, Demanding, Rewarding: Paula Comfort on Hard Work and Betting on Yourself
Paula Comfort arrived on a boat. Not metaphorically. Literally — on the HMS Corinthia, crossing the Atlantic from England to Canada because her family couldn't afford to fly. She didn't know she was on a boat. The ship was too big to comprehend. Looking back, it's the perfect metaphor for Paula's...
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Be Your Own Prototype: Marie Berry on Bone Health, Rucking & Reclaiming Her Roots
Marie Berry’s story starts before she was even born. Her German parents received a fax about a baby in Bolivia who would soon be available for adoption. Two days later, they decided to adopt her — and within a week they were on a plane to Bolivia to bring her home. That beginning set the tone for…
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It’s a Balance: Norma Hogan on Burnout, Boundaries & Intentional Leadership
When Norma Hogan describes her life a few years ago, it doesn’t sound dramatic at first. She was successful. She was leading. She was delivering. She had spent over a decade in senior customer success and operational leadership roles in tech. She was the kind of leader companies rely on — high...
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Forgiveness, Grit, Becoming: Tammy Soares Does Not Believe in Failure
Forgiveness. Grit. Becoming. Tammy Soares’s story is what happens when fierce ambition, deep love for family, and a nontraditional path collide—from a small mountain town to the president’s seat of a global digital agency, all while raising two kids and reinventing herself more times than she can...
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You Got This: How Midori Charles Just Kept Going
This is one of the most meaningful episodes I’ve recorded. Motherhood is not easy — and even in the most “ideal” circumstances, it can feel like a constant series of quiet and not-so-quiet battles. Midori’s story was not ideal. Hard hit after hard hit, the kind that could have taken her down —…
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Change, Strength, Love: Alexa Starks is Rewriting the Rules of Working Motherhood
There's a moment many working mothers face that no one prepares you for: You return from maternity leave. You've done everything "right." You're exhausted, overwhelmed, maybe still healing. And instead of support... there's silence. No plan. No check-in. Just an expectation that you'll pick up...
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Roller Coaster Ride: Nazli Senyuva Offringa on What Nobody Warns You About
From ER Hallways to Health Communication — Building a Career While Raising Two in a Pandemic What does it mean to grow up in an operating room — and then become a mother yourself? In this episode of Look Both Ways, I sit down with Dr. Nazli Senyuva — a health communication scholar, University of...
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Never Give Up: Mia Bjorkroos on Reinvention and Rebuilding from Survival Mode
What does never give up look like in real life — not as a slogan, but as a survival skill? In this episode of Look Both Ways, I sit down with Mia Bjorkroos — a fractional COO, operational strategist, and global fitness industry leader who helped scale Piloxing into more than 90 countries, all…
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Beautiful, Chaotic, Transformative: Beth Potter Was Made For More
Beautiful, Chaotic, Transformative: Beth Potter Was Made For More Jenna sits down with Beth Potter, who became a mom at 16, got emancipated, dropped out of high school, and bought her first house at 18. Beth opens up about running an in-home daycare for 12 years, not recognizing herself in family...
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Persistence, Positivity & Collaboration: Sarah Ray on Joy-Based Delegation and Building Career Momentum With Two Under Five
When I sat down with my second Look Both Ways guest, Sarah Ray, it reminded me why I love talking with her so much. She takes what could be one of the most exhausting seasons of life and reframes it with clarity and optimism. To her, parenting is its own version of progressive overload—the…
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Anything But Linear: Redefining Success with Rose Ann Mullet
The Tombstone Test: Redefining Success as a Working Mom with Rose Ann MulletIn this episode, Rose Ann Mullet doesn't hold back about the chaos of switching careers mid-pandemic while pregnant, finishing a master's degree with a newborn, and eventually walking away from teaching altogether. She…
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Introducing Look Both Ways
Trailer: Why “Look Both Ways” Exists — Ambition & Parenthood Without the Either/Or Episode Summary Welcome to Look Both Ways, a podcast for women doing both — building meaningful careers while raising kids. In this first episode, host Jenna shares why she created this show, how her own experience...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Look Both Ways is a podcast about building careers while raising children, and the stories of women who are doing both. Hosted by Jenna Randolph, each episode dives into honest conversations about ambition, identity, resilience, and motherhood.From career reinvention to burnout, from raising babies to letting them go, from chasing dreams to rebuilding from scratch — Look Both Ways explores what happens when we let ourselves be fully human: messy, brilliant, complicated, and constantly evolving.This is the space where women stop apologizing for wanting more, tell the truth about the hard parts, and learn to trust the journey — even when it looks nothing like they planned.
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