podcast: megan senese + The Legal Burnouts

Episode 25. Pregnancy, Parenting, and Entrepreneurship With Megan Senese

Rhia Batchelder and Kate Bridal speak to Megan Senese, cofounder of Stage, a women-owned legal marketing and business development firm that offers- among many other services- a free program to support working parents before and after parental leave.

This program, called Courderoy, was partially inspired by Megan’s previous experience hiding her pregnancy from her firm for SIX MONTHS.

Though nobody told Megan she had to hide her pregnancy, there were plenty of cultural indicators that she should, and she was neither the first nor the last woman on her team to do so. A reasonable move, considering that a woman’s earning potential statistically takes a lifelong hit after she becomes pregnant with her first child.

Megan walks Kate and Rhia through her journey to entrepreneurship, the pressures of being a high-achiever while parenting (especially when schools refuse to call her husband no matter how many times she lists him first), and how escaping traditional firm settings has her feeling like a dragon unleashed.

Listen to episode 25: HERE