Work like you’re not a parent.
Parent like you don’t work.
What if that whole system is wrong?
This is Full Stack Moms, and we are Mallory Lee and Shannon Curran, two working moms navigating tech careers, parenting, and everything in between. We talk about why the traditional rules of work don’t fit modern parents and how women in tech are doing things differently. Through honest conversations and behind-the-scenes stories, this show explores careers, caregiving, ambition, and the messy reality of having it all, just not all at once.
Connect with Mallory: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/
Connect with Shannon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius
www.shareyourgenius.com
Building a SaaS Company Without Sacrificing Motherhood
Ruchi Varshney (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvarshney/) is the co-founder of Measure (https://getmeasure.com/), an end-to-end RevOps and finance platform she started with her husband and her brother-in-law. Before that, she spent her career at Dropbox, where she started as an engineer and worked up to running all of the new products. She is also raising an eight-year-old son and leading a remote, all-Canadian team of 15 from Toronto.
Ruchi shares what it was like to lead a team of 30 engineers while pregnant, why she stepped away from her team before taking leave, and the part of returning to work that nobody explained to her. She talks about how parenting taught her what to let go of, and why she and her co-founders chose to self-fund the company they run as a family business.
Jump into the conversation:
(00:00) Meet Ruchi Varshney
(02:09) What’s it like co-founding a company with family
(04:35) Why she left Dropbox to build something new
(07:36) The reason to self-fund
(11:02) Why trust matters in billing software
(17:44) Leading 30 engineers while pregnant
(20:44) Stepping away from her team before leave
(22:57) Returning to work after leave
(24:38) What parenting taught her about letting go
(26:00) Camp signups and grocery orders between calls
(28:53) Running calls with a toddler nearby
(36:11) Stack ranking business and family priorities
(39:20) Taking vacations while building a company
(42:26) Save of the week
(48:52) Advice for aspiring founders
Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/)
Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/)
Connect with Ruchi Varshney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvarshney/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvarshney/)
Check out Measure: https://getmeasure.com (https://getmeasure.com)
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius
www.shareyourgenius.com (http://www.shareyourgenius.com)
14 Oct 2026
Why Are So Many Working Moms Leaving Corporate Careers?
Emilia D’Anzica has spent her career building and leading teams in tech, while raising two daughters and a bonus son. She earned her MBA, started her own business, and eventually co-authored Pressing On as a Tech Mom. After watching women leave tech in huge numbers during the pandemic, she and co-author Sabina Pons surveyed more than 300 women around the world to understand what was pushing working moms out and what helped others stay.
Emilia talks about returning to work after just five and a half weeks with her baby, the heartbreak of realizing her daughter preferred the nanny after years of work travel, and the working-mom guilt that can keep you up at night wondering how much you’re missing. She also shares the workplace double standards that made leaving at 5:30 for daycare pickup feel unacceptable, why she eventually left corporate life, and how parenting has changed as her daughters have gotten older.
From learning to give less advice and ask more questions to building a career with more room for family, Emilia shares what she wishes more working moms knew: there is no one right path, and none of us are meant to do this alone.
Jump into the conversation:
(00:00) Meet Emilia D’Anzica
(03:37) Building a career and family in tech
(06:26) Why she wrote Pressing On as a Tech Mom
(11:40) Are workplaces actually changing for moms?
(14:01) The guilt that keeps working moms up
(14:46) Calling out workplace double standards
(20:53) How motherhood changes as kids get older
(23:00) Giving less advice and asking more questions
(27:25) How Emilia found her voice as a woman in tech
(34:13) Building the next chapter of her career
(38:48) Why working moms need each other
(40:04) Save of the week
Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/)
Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/)
Connect with Emilia D’Anzica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emiliadanzica/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emiliadanzica/)
Check out Emiliadanzica.com: https://emiliadanzica.com/ (https://emiliadanzica.com/)
Get Pressing ON as a Tech Mom: https://a.co/d/03Zrx10A (https://a.co/d/03Zrx10A)
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius
www.shareyourgenius.com (http://www.shareyourgenius.com)
7 Oct 2026
How Postpartum Rage Can Impact New Moms and Families
Susanna Hunter has spent more than 10 years at Salesforce, where she’s now a VP of HR supporting a global organization of 10,000 people. She’s also raising four-year-old twins and a new baby, living on an intergenerational family compound, writing songs, doing stand-up comedy, and sharing the very real side of working motherhood on LinkedIn.
Susanna talks about the mom rage she once thought was hers alone, why her second postpartum experience has felt completely different from her first, and how she’s learned she doesn’t have to lose herself after having kids. She also shares the practical systems behind making their life work, including paid childcare, dividing responsibilities with her husband, a weekly house meeting, and removing the tiny recurring decisions that used to create friction at home.
Jump into the conversation:
(00:00) Meet Susanna Hunter
(04:33) Building an intergenerational family compound
(09:09) How motherhood rewired her brain
(15:00) Talking openly about mom rage
(21:38) Her surprisingly positive postpartum experience
(25:13) Staying connected to yourself after kids
(27:41) What it actually takes to make it work
(30:40) Taking a four-week-old baby to a festival
(33:00) Why she embraced vibe parenting
(36:13) Navigating work travel with three kids
(38:46) Being a Salesforce VP on Mom LinkedIn
(41:40) The systems that keep their family running
(47:40) Save of the week
Connect with Mallory Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorylee/)
Connect with Shannon Curran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-sweeny-curran/)
Connect with Susanna Hunter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannahuntercoaching/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannahuntercoaching/)
Check out Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ap/?ir=1 (https://www.salesforce.com/ap/?ir=1)
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius
www.shareyourgenius.com (http://www.shareyourgenius.com)
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