Slow Down to Go Fast: A Working Mom on Urgency, Spontaneity, and Reclaiming an Hour for Yourself

Lainey lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two toddlers, and Morty the dog who commutes to the office with her and works the subway car for pets from strangers. She's an extrovert who can hold a lot, until she can't and she came into this conversation ready to admit that her Oura ring has never once changed her behavior. This one is for anyone who feels like they're running a well-oiled machine that is also one small thing away from falling apart.

Lainey talks about what it actually looks like to be a working mom whose days are back to back meetings, mode-switching, and very little give in the system. She gets honest about the false urgency that keeps her from taking a five minute walk around the block, why evening work time has become her unexpected form of self-directed space, and what it feels like to realize you genuinely cannot remember the last time you wandered somewhere without a destination. She also makes a compelling case for the one hour workout as the only truly protected time in a very full day and what it took to actually show up for it when work was pulling her back.

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