Make It Work

About Make It Work

I'm Sarah, a working mom of three 👨👩👧👦🇸🇬† If you're seeking work-life balance inspiration or wondered, "Can you have it all?", this podcast is for you. Join me as I uncover stories of modern moms in Asia redefining success at work, home, and everything in between. Follow along and let's Make It Work together! 💪 Connect with me, join our mommas community and more here 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast

Publisher

Sarah Wong

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2023

Latest episode

24 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Aug 2026

   What Healing While Parenting Actually Looks Like (Therapist Explains) | Jen Loong-Goodwin | Ep 43

   She grew up believing she was the least qualified person to become a mother.Childhood was difficult. The parenting she received was not the kind she wanted to pass on. And for a long time, she thought that past would follow her into the room where she would one day raise her own child.It did not.Jen Loong-Goodwin is a venture capital professional by day, a clinical therapist by night, and a content creator who refuses to let the working mom struggle stay silent. She founded Lifelong Therapy after years inside high-performing corporate environments and time spent sitting with the clients those environments had quietly worn down. She also created Long Tales, a bilingual cartoon series helping mixed-race children find belonging in Chinese culture.She has worked across six countries. She navigated postpartum depression while completing her master's degree, clocking clinical hours, and flying for work. She pumped breast milk in cars in emerging markets, carried frozen milk through customs, and did almost all of it without saying a word about how hard it was.Because she was raised to believe that silence was a virtue.This episode is about what happens when you finally stop being quiet.What we get into:🧬 Why she almost did not become a mom and the one thing her husband said that changed everything🌊 Going through postpartum depression as a therapist and what it actually took to move through it🤱 Her first day back to work after maternity leave, a six-hour car ride, three freezers of breast milk, and why she stopped doing it silently🔇 The cultural weight of Asian silence and what it really costs working moms who never learn to advocate for themselves🧠 What she means when she says your career might just be one big trauma response🤖 How she uses AI not to do more but to protect the hours that matter most with her son🌏 What it actually takes to raise a mixed-race child to feel like they belong💼 Why women hit their creative peak between 45 and 55 and what that means for how we design our careers right nowIf you have ever stayed quiet about how much you were carrying because you were raised to believe that was strength, this episode was made for you.—------------------CONNECT WITH JEN LOONG-GOODWIN 👋 Lifelong Therapy (Book a call): www.lifeloongtherapy.com (www.lifeloongtherapy.com) 👋 Bilingual Chinese culture cartoons: www.yotuube.com/@longlongtales (www.yotuube.com/@longlongtales)👋 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/loongstoryshort (http://www.instagram.com/loongstoryshort)👋 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenloong (http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenloong)—------------------CHAPTERS00:00 Nobody Warned Her About This01:13 Introduction03:34 When Motherhood Hits Differently07:35 The Cheapest Tool Nobody Uses12:25 The Cost of Staying Silent22:24 Healing and Parenting at the Same Time23:39 What If Ambition Is Just Survival26:59 How AI Buys Working Moms More Time33:55 What Does a Full Life Actually Look Like40:57 What Works at Work Fails at Home—------------------Watch more: A Single Mom Who Rewrote Her Story And How You Can Too - Elise Tan| Ep 42 - https://youtu.be/7WkbLCbP8fY?si=brYJUbn0uYL8fDEq (https://youtu.be/7WkbLCbP8fY?si=brYJUbn0uYL8fDEq)—----- Follow Make It Work! ⁠https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast⁠ (https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast%E2%81%A0) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/ (https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/) 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/) 🎵 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/ (https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/) 🍏 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085) 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be (https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be) 📥 Email: makeitwork.asia@gmail.com Join our free Mommas Making It Work WhatsApp community: https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity (https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity) —----- ➤➤ Like the video and subscribe for more honest conversations with working moms across Asia! 🔔 Hit the bell so you never miss an episode, and share with a mom who needs to hear this. 💬 Drop a comment; we read every single one.#WorkingMoms #HealingWhileParenting #AsianMoms #MomGuilt #WorkingMomsAsia #MentalLoadMoms #BreakTheCycle #MakeItWorkPodcast

2. 

   26 Jul 2026

   A Single Mom Who Rewrote Her Story And How You Can Too - Elise Tan, Founder of Asia Startup Network, Remarkable Women Asia| Ep 42

   There is a part of women having it all that nobody talks about honestly. The postpartum depression that sent her to the hospital for a month. The marriage that counselling could not save. The Thursday nights her daughter went to her father, and she did not know what to do with the silence. Elise Tan has lived through all of it. And she built two communities from the rubble. She is the founder of Asia Startup Network (https://www.asiastartupnetwork.com/), a community of 5,000 startups, investors, and ecosystem partners across the region, and Remarkable Women (http://www.remarkablewomen.asia/), a growing network of 1,000 women in tech and entrepreneurship. Before that, she was a Director at Vertex Ventures, one of Southeast Asia's best-known venture funds. What she built is impressive. Who she became is the real story. Because behind all of that is a single mom of a seven-year-old who went through postpartum depression, a sudden job loss, a painful separation, and a season of alcoholism, all at the same time. And instead of letting that define her, she used every single bit of it to build something real. She did not have the answers. She just refused to stay stuck. What we get into: 💯 Why she tried to score 100 at motherhood and what it cost her body 🪞 How her daughter became her mirror, reflecting back both the good and the parts she is still working on 💔 Why she calls divorce a pointless grief and what it actually takes to move through it 🍷 The Thursday nights her daughter left and what she reached for to fill the silence ✍️ How journaling 50 dates over four years helped her finally understand what she was actually looking for in a partner 🧘 Why she stopped believing the end justifies the means and what motherhood taught her about kindness over being right 🏃 Why she no longer believes in having it all at the same time and what she thinks we should be asking instead —----- CONNECT WITH ELISE AND HER COMMUNITIES 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetanyl/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetanyl/) 👋 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gratitude_devotions/ (https://www.instagram.com/gratitude_devotions/) 👋 Asia Startup Network: https://www.asiastartupnetwork.com/ (https://www.asiastartupnetwork.com/) 👋 Remarkable Women Asia: http://www.remarkablewomen.asia/ (http://www.remarkablewomen.asia/) 👋 Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment: https://positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/ (https://positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/) —----- Chapters 00:00 What Did a Month in Hospital Teach Her 00:59 Introduction 03:25 When Everything Fell Apart at Once 09:43 How Did She Find Her Way Back 20:03 How Did Asia Startup Network Begin 23:13 Can Women Really Access Capital in Asia 26:18 Why Did She Build a Community Just for Women 28:21 What Does It Mean to Rewrite Your Story 35:36 What Dating After Divorce Really Looks Like —----- Watch more: Lessons From 5,000 Moms | Liying Tay, Founder of Crunchmoms | Ep 41  - https://youtu.be/bamcpRZT5pU?si=EKvURLeJ36r50W0L (https://youtu.be/bamcpRZT5pU?si=EKvURLeJ36r50W0L) —----- Follow Make It Work! ⁠https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast⁠ (https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast%E2%81%A0) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/ (https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/) 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/) 🎵 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/ (https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/) 🍏 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085) 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be (https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be) 📥 Email: makeitwork.asia@gmail.com Join our free Mommas Making It Work WhatsApp community: https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity (https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity) —----- ➤➤ Like the video and subscribe for more honest conversations with working moms across Asia! 🔔 Hit the bell so you never miss an episode, and share with a mom who needs to hear this. 💬 Drop a comment, we read every single one. #FemaleFounders #SingaporeMoms #RemarkableWomenAsia #AsiaStartupNetwork #MakeItWorkPodcast #WorkingMoms #SingleMom #MomGuilt #PostpartumDepression

3. 

   22 Jun 2026

   Lessons From 5,000 Moms | Liying Tay, Founder of Crunchmoms | Ep 41

   This is a moment that every mom relates to - You wake up ready on your big day. The event, the pitch, the opportunity you have been building towards. And then your kid has a fever. That morning, Liying Tay made a call. And she still remembers the guilt. Liying is the co-founder of Crunchmoms (https://www.crunchmoms.com), the MENA region's first women's networking platform for moms navigating ambition and family. She and her cofounder built it from a Monday morning coffee with eight women in Dubai, while carrying a newborn and planning her first summit, with no family nearby and no one to stay home. She did not build Crunchmoms because she had it figured out. She built it because she did not. That honesty is exactly why this conversation is worth your time. What we get into: 🤱 Baby-carrying through Zoom meetings and scheduling nap times around calls, because no one else was home 😔 The guilt of going to your biggest event when your kid wakes up with a fever, and choosing to go anyway 🔄 Why the 50/50 partnership ideal had to go, and what a fluid arrangement actually looks like week to week 📋 (My fave!) The Sunday family meeting that keeps two ambitious people from talking past each other all week 🧠 Why the second baby hit her with mom guilt ( the first one never did) and the one thing a friend told her that changed everything 🌍 The misconception about women in the Middle East that eight years on the ground completely dismantled 💡 What it actually means to own a task at home, and why planning it on a Google Doc is not the same thing as doing it If you have ever felt the tension between wanting to go 1,000 miles per hour at work and being called to be fully present at home, and wondered if that tension ever goes away, this episode is for you. —------------- Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:16 Who is Liying Tay 03:42 Building a Business in Chaos 06:40 The Hardest Season She Never Talks About 15:13 How Two Ambitious Partners Make It Work 21:18 Why She Wishes She Asked for Help Sooner 22:46 The Truth About Women in the Middle East 25:33 It Started With 8 Women at a Cafe 30:33 What Needs to Change at Work for Moms 34:37 What Does Being a Good Mom Mean to You —------------- CONNECT WITH LIYING AND CRUNCHMOMS 🤝 Join Crunchmoms events virtually from anywhere in the world at https://www.crunchmoms.com/events (https://www.crunchmoms.com/events). Their online events are open to moms globally so do check out what is coming up. 🎟️ For Crunchmoms Summit 2026, you can get in early by emailing liying@crunchmom.com (mailto:liying@crunchmom.com). Mention MAKE IT WORK in your email and you will receive 25% off both virtual and in person tickets. 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liyingtay/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liyingtay/) 👋 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crunchmoms/ (https://www.instagram.com/crunchmoms/) 👋 Website: https://www.crunchmoms.com/ (https://www.crunchmoms.com/) ------------ Follow Make It Work! ⁠https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast⁠ (https://linktr.ee/makeitwork.podcast%E2%81%A0) 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/ (https://www.instagram.com/makeitwork.asia/) 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-it-work-asia-podcast/) 🎵 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/ (https://www.facebook.com/people/Make-It-Work/61566472637714/) 🍏 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-it-work/id1701442085) 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be (https://open.spotify.com/show/78ulY0B27nYxGB6jPCABPI?si=abfc48d037d943be) 📥 Email: makeitwork.asia@gmail.com Join our free Mommas Making It Work WhatsApp community: https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity (https://bit.ly/MIWcommunity) ------------ ➤➤ Like the video and subscribe for more honest conversations with working moms across Asia! 🔔 Hit the bell so you never miss an episode, and share with a mom who needs to hear this. 💬 Drop a comment, we read every single one. #WorkingMoms #WomenInBusiness #FemaleFounders #DubaiMoms #SingaporeMoms #AmbitionAndMotherhood #MomLife #MakeItWorkPodcast #WorkLifeBalance

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YouTube views

121,169

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

71