Education
Today we chat about one of my favorite topics, COMMUNITY! It also happen's to be Theresa Piasta's as well. Theresa and I met back when Pax was right under 10k and she was knee deep (and still is) growing her company PuppyMama. I helped Theresa kick off her Instagram live series and have watched her blossom ever since. Theresa has a book coming out, Raising a Doodle, and guess what, I’m in it!! She even reads one of my quotes from the book in today's episode. In today's episode we cover a lot of ground. Theresa recently had baby and was able to share her experience of preparing for motherhood and postpartum, finding balance, and now living in her normal. Theresa and I talk about prioritizing different elements in business, letting go of certain expectations of ourselves, and most importantly creating a community. Theresa talks about the power of team both in her family unit and from outside sources while she went through pregnancy and then postpartum and how this help has encouraged a happy healthy household. We get real about not giving up on your dreams when becoming a mother and ultizling a community to help accomplish tasks. She’s a one woman show and has learned every step of the way. She’s an absolute inspiration. Before founding Puppy Mama, Theresa Piasta was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan—spending six total years in the Investment Bank and Sales & Trading businesses at two Wall Street banks. Prior to that she served as an Army Captain in a Field Artillery Brigade. During her fourteen-month Iraq deployment in 2008, Theresa led a large team to defend thousands of soldiers and contractors residing on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Delta near the Iranian border. She was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for her service. Theresa attended the Stanford GSB Ignite program in 2016 and received a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College in 2006. Theresa and her six siblings grew up in Sonoma County, California. Today she lives in San Francisco, CA, with her husband, son, and cavapoo, Waffles. Make sure to tune into the end where Theresa shares more about her first book ever, Raising a Doodle, which you can currently pre-purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and puppymama.com/book. It officially is available for purchase on November 4th! Happy Listening!