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Carry Strong

By: Stephanie Kramer
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan, Stephanie Kramer
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Publisher's summary

A groundbreaking approach to successfully navigating your pregnancy at work

Pregnancy is a profound journey. Navigating it while working—from figuring out how to tell your boss you’re pregnant to squeezing in doctors’ appointments between meetings, all while working even harder to prove yourself—can be a push and pull between a desire for privacy and the need for support. The good news is, it’s possible to thrive in both spaces. Carry Strong offers a new approach that will transform your pregnancy years at work from something to “get through” into a career opportunity to embrace with confidence.

Employing original research, expert advice, and real-life stories from Olympic athletes, CEOs, and hundreds of amazing working mothers across the country, executive and professor Stephanie Kramer outlines essential principles for navigating pregnancy and work simultaneously. She shows you how to embrace a different perspective, find your balance, cultivate community, communicate your needs, and navigate the shift in identity from working woman to working mother. Along the way, you’ll identify career considerations to make at each phase of pregnancy, starting with the moment you decide you want to become a working mom-to-be.

In Carry Strong, Kramer flips the script: This isn’t about powering through pregnancy at work. It’s about being powerful and pregnant at work.

©2023 Stephanie Kramer (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“A deeply relevant and inspirational guide to navigating one of the most uncertain periods of a woman’s career—and coming out the other side feeling stronger and more confident than ever.” –Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

“Navigating the stages of pregnancy and balancing a career while pregnant can be daunting. Stephanie tackles all the ups and downs by sharing the moving personal experiences from a breadth of individuals, as well as her own motherhood journey and the career balancing act that came along with it.” –Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt, author of The Gift of Forgiveness and Creator, BDA Baby™

"Carry Strong flips the script on pregnancy at work from secretive and stressful to an opportunity for growth. Covering everything from fertility struggles and loss to the invisible and visible phases of pregnancy, it’s packed with vulnerable stories and strategies to help set boundaries, focus, navigate tough conversations, and create the career and family that is right for you." –Leslie Schrock, author of Bumpin' and Fertility Rules

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