Beautiful Things Come at Their Own Inconsiderate Timing: Shachar's journey of resilience through career and fertility uncertainty

26/06/2025 57 min Episodio 12
Beautiful Things Come at Their Own Inconsiderate Timing: Shachar's journey of resilience through career and fertility uncertainty

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Shachar Peled shares her journey from reporter to working mother, and how she's learned to find meaning when life doesn't go according to plan. A former journalist for CNN and other international outlets, Shachar opens up about her three-year fertility struggle, transitioning from the unpredictable world of reporting to Google, and facing two unexpected layoffs in recent years.She's refreshingly honest about the challenges of motherhood, job searching as an ambitious woman, and how she's learned to embrace uncertainty while rebuilding her career and completing a master's degree at Oxford.Show Time Stamps:4:20 – Balancing demands of journalism with prospect of becoming a mother8:45 – Three years of fertility struggles while building a journalism career 15:20 – Managing pregnancy and motherhood as a reporter22:10 – Why she transitioned from journalism to Google 27:45 – Getting pregnant one week after starting her new job35:50 – Two rounds of layoffs and the impact on her identity 45:15 – The reality of being a "soccer mom" when you're not a soccer mom 52:20 – Finding hope through education and new projects

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