Unscripted

About Unscripted

Unscripted is a podcast for ambitious working mothers carrying the mental load, guilt, pressure, and invisible expectations of being everyone's default. Hosted by coach Andi Salcedo, it's about what's underneath the overwhelm and finding your own voice again. Through honest stories, practical insights, and conversations about identity, boundaries, burnout, perfectionism, ambition, career, relationships, and motherhood, Unscripted explores the things working mothers carry, question, resent, fear, and want, but don't always say out loud. This isn't another podcast about doing more or managing your time better. It's about questioning the scripts you've inherited about who you're supposed to be, so you can decide what you actually want to keep. New episodes of Unscripted by Momtoring are hosted by Andi Salcedo, ICF Professional Certified Coach, former P&G and PayPal leader, working mother, and founder of Momtoring. She has spent eight years working with high-achieving women who are ready to stop managing their lives and start authoring them. New episodes every week. Learn more about Momtoring at www.momtoring.com and follow us on Instagram @andiwithmomtoring.

Publisher

Andi Salcedo | Momtoring

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2026

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   The Default Parent Dilemma: Why Everyone Still Comes to Mom First

   Your kid walks past another perfectly capable adult to ask you where something is. The school needs one parent email, and yours is the one that goes on the form before anyone has discussed it. Something gets forgotten by somebody else, and somehow you still feel the pull to explain it, fix it, or wonder what you should have done differently. If you're a working mom who has made the shared list, explained the plan clearly, and handed something off the right way, you probably know the feeling o...

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   #11 - Working Mom Overwhelm: How to decide what actually gets Your time when everything feels important

   You could list everything you're carrying in your sleep. Some nights you probably do. The camp form due Friday. The work project that got bigger without anyone asking if you wanted it bigger. The birthday you're tracking, the appointment only you remember, the thing you keep meaning to hand off and never do. It all feels equally important, which is exactly why none of it ever gets to go. So you keep carrying it. You tell yourself you'll sort it out when things calm down. They don't calm down....

3. 

   24 Jul 2026

   #10 Why Delegating Doesn't Fix the Working Mom Mental Load - You're Over-Responsible, Not Burned Out

   You hand something off. A task, an errand, a whole afternoon of pickups. And five minutes later you're just as tired as you were before, like nothing moved. If you're a working mother who delegates and still ends every day carrying the exact same weight, this episode is about why that keeps happening, and it's not because your partner isn't capable, and it's not because you didn't ask clearly enough. It starts on an ordinary weeknight, packing up an entire household for a summer move, four bi...

4. 

   17 Jul 2026

   #9 Why working moms feel guilty when their kid is not happy, even when they did nothing wrong

   You measure whether you're doing this right by something you don't actually control. A mood. A reaction. Whether your kid is happy with you in this exact moment. And if that's the measure, you're going to fail constantly. Not because you're doing anything wrong. Because moods aren't evidence. They're weather. A few weeks ago, Andi told her daughter she was leaving for the evening, and got a look that landed right in the middle of her chest. What happened next is not the story you'd expect. Sh...

5. 

   16 Jun 2026

   #8 When "Not Enough" Doesn't Go Away and why More Achievement Never Fixes Self-Doubt

   You have the promotions. The glowing feedback. The degrees. The proof. So why does that quiet voice still whisper, "It's not enough"? In this deeply personal episode of Unscripted, Andi Salcedo explores the invisible filter that causes ambitious women to dismiss their accomplishments while holding tightly to every mistake, misstep, and moment of self-doubt. Through stories from her years at Procter & Gamble, an unexpected realization during a job search in San Francisco, and powerful insi...

6. 

   4 Jun 2026

   #7 Why working moms stay stuck? The believes you inherited and never questioned

   You probably have a word for yourself. Type A. The one who can handle everything. The helpful one. The strong one. Maybe it arrived as a compliment and stayed as a cage. Maybe it landed so early you stopped noticing it was there at all. But it's running. Underneath the decisions you make before you've thought them through. The things you reach for. The things you quietly write off before anyone else gets the chance to weigh in. In high school, Andi's classmates used one word to describe...

7. 

   27 May 2026

   #6 The Stoop: Why You’re Not Supposed to Go Back to Your Pre-Motherhood Self

   You finally get the quiet. The time. The space you've been saying you need. And then something unexpected happens. You don't quite know what to do with it. In this episode, Andi explores identity, working motherhood, and the quiet ways we can slowly lose connection with ourselves... not all at once, but in tiny, reasonable decisions that build over time. If you've ever thought: "I'll get back to myself when life calms down..." This conversation is for you. If something in this season la...

8. 

   19 May 2026

   #5 Why working moms can’t stop trying to be perfect... and the cost of it

   There was a morning in 2018 when I was driving on the highway listening to an audiobook I had been avoiding for weeks. I did not even make it to chapter one. Something about what I heard cracked open a pattern I had spent most of my life calling ambition, high standards, discipline. And once I saw it, I could not unsee it. In this episode, I talk about perfectionism in working mothers. Not the polished version people compliment you for. The quieter version. The one that keeps raising the bar,...

9. 

   12 May 2026

   #4 Why boundary setting advice for Working Moms doesn’t work

   You’ve read the boundary tips. You’ve tried the scripts. You know what you’re “supposed” to say. And then you’re in the moment… your boss asks, your child needs something, your calendar fills… and you say yes anyway. This episode is about why that keeps happening. Not because you lack discipline. Not because you need better language. But because most boundary advice assumes the decision is happening in your thinking mind. It happens somewhere faster than thought. I share one moment from my ti...

10. 

    5 May 2026

    #3 - Why High-Performing Women Can’t Stop People-Pleasing (And Why It Leads to Resentment)

    A coach once said something to me that stopped me in my tracks. You don’t resent them. You resent yourself. In this episode, I’m talking about the kind of resentment so many working moms carry but don’t say out loud. The kind that comes with guilt, because you love your life, your kids, your partner… and still feel it. What I’ve come to see is that it’s not really about them. It’s about all the moments you said yes when you meant no. The times you put everyone else first without even checking...

11. 

    22 Apr 2026

    #2 - The burnout nobody sees because it looks like accomplishment

    If you're still showing up, still delivering, still holding it all together, you might think you're fine. But burnout in working mothers rarely announces itself. It doesn't look like falling apart. It looks like keeping going, and it looks like you. It looks like accomplishment. It looks like being on. Which is exactly why so many of us miss it... until something small cracks it open and we don't recognize ourselves in what comes after. In this episode I share what burnout actually felt like ...

12. 

    20 Apr 2026

    #1 - Why you are not supposed to "do it all" and how to choose your next chapter instead

    You're not exhausted because there's a magical system you haven't cracked yet. You're exhausted because you've been performing every role at full intensity, with no permission to choose which one matters right now. Most working moms never stop to ask the question. There's always something next on the list, always someone who needs something, always a version of yourself you're supposed to be showing up as. The busyness becomes the identity. And somewhere underneath all of it, the real you get...

13. 

    10 Apr 2026

    Unscripted Trailer

    If you’re a working mom who feels overwhelmed, stretched thin, or like you’re doing everything but still falling short… this is for you. Unscripted is a podcast about breaking free from the invisible scripts so many women live by—the pressure to be perfect, to hold it all together, and to put yourself last. Here, we talk about the mental load, identity, burnout, and what it really looks like to reconnect with yourself in the middle of real life. This isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing w...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings