Monday Jun 02, 2025

ep. 265 How to Balance Motherhood and Business w/ Chelsie Bruggeman

Welcome back, babes, to the Scale Your Sales Podcast! Today’s episode is a heart-opening and empowering conversation with Chelsea Bruggemann, a professional development coach and founder of Momentum—a leadership community for working moms. Chelsea brings the real talk on what it means to be a mother in the workforce today and how we can finally start supporting women with the tools, training, and community they actually need.

Whether you’re a corporate exec juggling daycare pickups or a mompreneur building an empire from your kitchen table, this episode dives deep into how motherhood and leadership intersect—and how companies can do better. If you’ve ever felt like you're doing it all and still not feeling seen, this one is for you.

Topics Covered:

Why “all moms are working moms”—and what that really means
Chelsea’s identity shift after becoming a mother and the honest challenges that followed
The myth of “having it all” and the real cost of trying to do it all at once
The 20% gap: what happens when women leave the workforce after having kids
How leadership development can look different for moms (and why it should)
What companies must do to actually retain and support high-performing working moms
The power of community: how Momentum is creating space for women to lead on their terms
Chelsea’s personal leadership philosophy and why modeling mistakes makes better leaders—and better moms
Details on Momentum’s leadership cohort, free working mom calls, and retreat experiences that offer true rest

“What power if we had more leaders in the world that could own their mistakes, be accountable for their mistakes, and then alter the path that they're on, right? That's a powerful leader. And I'd also argue that's a really powerful mother that can model that for their kids. Yes, maybe I made this decision for our family. I've decided it wasn't my decision. This is why, this is what I've learned, and that's why we're pivoting. What strength to model that for our children.” – Chelsie