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Elise Wei is an Elise is an Engineering Director at Monetate with an 18-month-old daughter. We talked about her path from fine art photography to tech, being the first female engineer at her company, being promoted to director while on maternity leave, and exercising her company's take-it-when-you-need-it vacation and flexible remote work policies after her official maternity leave ended. * @not_pele [http://twitter.com/Not_Pele] on Twitter * What Happens to a Woman's Brain When She Becomes a Mother [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/what-happens-to-a-womans-brain-when-she-becomes-a-mother/384179/] * Women in Software Engineering [https://github.com/triketora/women-in-software-eng] Self-Reported Statistics * Managing Humans [http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/1430243147/] book * Girl Develop It... See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information. [https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia]

Jenni Snyder is a MySQL DBA at Yelp, with a 15-month-old daughter. We talked about her experience starting a moms group at work, helping the company to improve reboarding moms after leave, including the importance of having managers and HR practice conversations, asking for and iterating based on employee feedback, and her findings on setting up the ideal mothers' room. @jcsuperstar [http://twitter.com/jcsuperstar] on Twitter Podcasts: The Broad Experience [http://www.thebroadexperience.com/], Planet Money [http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money], Freakonomics [http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts/], This American Life [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast], The Moth [http://themoth.org/about/programs/the-moth-podcast], Reply All [http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/] Audiobook: See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Prasanna Krishnan is CEO and co-founder of SmartyPal, with a 4-year-old son & expecting her second child. Notes * SmartyPal [http://www.smartypal.com/] * @smartypalapps [http://twitter.com/smartypalapps] on Twitter * SmartyPal on Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/smartypalapps] See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Camille Fournier is CTO at Rent the Runway with a toddler son. Notes * Elided Branches [http://whilefalse.blogspot.com] * @skamille [http://twitter.com/skamille] on Twitter * Rent the Runway [http://renttherunway.com] Sponsor * GitHub [http://github.com] See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.

Anil Dash is co-founder and CEO of ThinkUp and has a 3.5-year-old son. Notes * Anil Dash [http://dashes.com] * @anildash [https://twitter.com/anildash] on Twitter * ThinkUp [http://thinkup.com] * The Good Web Bundle [http://goodwebbundle.com/] Sponsor * GitHub [http://github.com] See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.