Motherhood and expectations from ourselves, and society

Terri talks about finding equilibrium as a mom and combatting social expectations.   

Who is Terri Mead? 

Terri Hanson Mead is President of Solutions2Projects, LLC, a consulting company that provides IT strategy and IT compliance services in the life sciences space in addition to expert witness consulting services.  She is also an active angel investor and former Vice President of Sand Hill Angels, regularly advises startups and in her spare time, flies helicopters.  She is passionate about supporting, and advocating for, female founders and investors and has created Class Bravo Ventures to more formally do so.  

Show Highlights 

• Looking for equilibrium instead of balance 

• How the reality of becoming a mom didn’t align with expectations 

• Saving for therapy for her kids 

• Combatting unreasonable societal expectations  

• Watching Deadpool with her 15 year old son was awkward 

• Each day is a new day to do better 

• She kisses her hugs her kids as much as possible and makes sure they know she loves them 

• Women need to do a better job of supporting each other and not judging

Contacts 

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead 

Feel free to email her at [email protected]. 

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