Today is International Women's Day 2026, and this week's episode is a personal one. Leah shares the stories of the women who changed the course of her life — her older sisters, who loved her with uncomplicated delight during years when love at home felt uncertain; her first grade teacher, Mrs. Arlen, who saw something in her worth championing and set in motion a chain of events that shaped her entire sense of herself; her early boss Margie Hewson, who stepped in quietly during an unmothered season and showed her what strength looks like when it doesn't require hardness; and the women who have walked alongside her as managers and peers throughout her career.

Framed around the IWD 2026 theme of Give to Gain, and drawing on psychologist Jean Baker Miller's relational theory of how we develop ourselves through connection, this episode  ...