The New Standard Professional Women’s Community

08/28/2026

I have watched work change a lot over the last two decades. Each shift added something new but the load on working mothers kept growing with it.

I wrote about how we got here, what economists call work intensification and what the data says about where women are heading as a result.

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On two decades of work culture shifts, the invisible load and why so many of us are finally starting to talk about it.

08/20/2026

I spent years building workplace support programs. When I needed them myself I could not reach them.

I wrote about what was actually happening during one of the hardest periods of my career and what should have been different.

On burnout, pregnancy and what I wish someone had done for me.

08/15/2026

I returned to work after maternity leave 3 times. Each time the support was not there in the way it needed to be.

I wrote about the emotional reality, the structural gap and what actually helps. For the mothers who lived it and the leaders who can do better.

Check it out!
https://shannonmonaghan.substack.com/p/we-onboard-new-employees-better-than

07/31/2026

We talk a lot about moving up. What we don't talk about enough is what happens when you step back, and your ego does not take it well. https://shannonmonaghan.substack.com/p/i-stepped-back-in-my-career-my-ego

07/30/2026

We went from in office, to fully remote, to hybrid, then back in office. We proved flexibility worked, why are we forgetting that?

For a brief window during the COVID pandemic, the structure of my life accidentally worked.

07/29/2026

✨ I start my day with affirmations, and hold on to one for the day, sharing today’s in case this resonates.

💫 Everything I need is already within me 💫

07/28/2026

I wrote something this week that I think will resonate with a lot of the women in this community.

It is about doing it all- what that actually looks like in practice, why the standard is impossible, and why I think most of us are already there without anyone telling us so.

Link in comments.