For any woman who has spent years pouring herself into raising a family and now finds herself wondering what comes next, this conversation is the permission slip and the road map. Returning to work after being a stay-at-home mom is not about starting over. According to Sharon Macey, founder of Mom to More, it is about finally putting a name to everything that was already built. Sharon joins host Angela Acosta on Diana Prince Lives Next Door to make the case that caregiving years are not a gap. They are credentials.
The Mom MBA: Returning to Work After Being a Stay-at-Home Mom With the Skills You Already Have
Sharon Macey spent nearly two decades away from her career as an associate creative director in New York advertising to raise her three children. What she found when she emerged was not a woman who had fallen behind. It was a woman who had been running a multi-person operation with no HR department, no onboarding, no days off, and no performance review to confirm she was exceptional at all of it. She calls this the Mom MBA, and in this episode she makes the case for why every woman should be putting those years on her LinkedIn profile.
What we talked about
- Why the caregiving years function as a rigorous, unpaid executive education and the specific skills, from crisis management to negotiation to budget oversight, that women develop and then systematically undervalue
- The messy middle of reinvention, including the detours, the pivots, and why starting badly at something new is not a setback but the actual path forward
- How Sharon returned to Latin ballroom dance in her late fifties, competed nationally in her sixties, and what the dance floor revealed about identity when every other role was stripped away
- The story of Rhea Lana Reiner, who built a children’s consignment business from her living room into 120 franchises across 26 states by trusting who she already was rather than becoming someone louder or bolder
- Why the belief that it is too late is the only real obstacle, and how momentum, not readiness, is what creates clarity in figuring out how to reinvent yourself after motherhood
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