Kirsten Pietraszka
@everwildconsulting.bsky.social
Mother x 3, wife, PhD Candidate, and founder of Everwild Consulting. Interested in the intersection of #motherwork and #leadership.
Maine has some choices to make. I don't think it's bad Graham Platner is one of them.
#mainesenaterace #grahamplatner #susancollins #janetmills #maine
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#mainesenaterace #grahamplatner #susancollins #janetmills #maine
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
On Redemption and Leadership
What Graham Platner’s controversy taught me about growth, leadership, and the kind of men we actually need in power.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Maine has some choices to make. I don't think it's bad Graham Platner is one of them.
#mainesenaterace #grahamplatner #susancollins #janetmills #maine
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
#mainesenaterace #grahamplatner #susancollins #janetmills #maine
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
I’m starting to feel like if I had just stayed more consistent with therapy I wouldn’t have ended up doing this whole PhD thing.
June 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’m starting to feel like if I had just stayed more consistent with therapy I wouldn’t have ended up doing this whole PhD thing.
Reposted by Kirsten Pietraszka
Women are told we can 'have it all,' but what if the true revolution is putting ourselves first? In Me First, I explore the tensions between motherhood, career, and self-love, challenging the patriarchal pressures that keep us from fully thriving.
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
June 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Women are told we can 'have it all,' but what if the true revolution is putting ourselves first? In Me First, I explore the tensions between motherhood, career, and self-love, challenging the patriarchal pressures that keep us from fully thriving.
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
I fucking love women. We’re awesome. And we’re such an incredible force when we support each other and hold each other and raise each other up. We fucking rock.
June 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I fucking love women. We’re awesome. And we’re such an incredible force when we support each other and hold each other and raise each other up. We fucking rock.
Reflecting on some feminist writing from the early 60s and realizing that society would have rather had women as a bunch of sexed up drug addicts than let them make decisions for themselves.
Listen, I like being sexed up and high as much as the next girl, but at least it’s my choice.
Listen, I like being sexed up and high as much as the next girl, but at least it’s my choice.
June 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reflecting on some feminist writing from the early 60s and realizing that society would have rather had women as a bunch of sexed up drug addicts than let them make decisions for themselves.
Listen, I like being sexed up and high as much as the next girl, but at least it’s my choice.
Listen, I like being sexed up and high as much as the next girl, but at least it’s my choice.
Reposted by Kirsten Pietraszka
Someone told me today I was a brat with a book fetish and no self-preservation instinct.
Compliment received…😏
Compliment received…😏
May 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Someone told me today I was a brat with a book fetish and no self-preservation instinct.
Compliment received…😏
Compliment received…😏
Obsessed with the fact that I have the kind of friends who may need to occasionally cancel coffee plans because her cow is giving birth and she sends me a video of it!!
May 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Obsessed with the fact that I have the kind of friends who may need to occasionally cancel coffee plans because her cow is giving birth and she sends me a video of it!!
Zoom Calls and Toads in the Kitchen open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
#mothering #workingmoms #invisiblelabor
#mothering #workingmoms #invisiblelabor
Zoom Calls and Toads in the Kitchen
A story about motherhood, mess, and what counts as leadership
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May 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zoom Calls and Toads in the Kitchen open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
#mothering #workingmoms #invisiblelabor
#mothering #workingmoms #invisiblelabor
Paddled right into a Mary Oliver poem today.
May 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Paddled right into a Mary Oliver poem today.
omg I want goats
attempting to live my best camping life up at the edge of civilization
but fuck it’s cold
#accidentalpoem #memorialdayweekend #goats #homestead #campingwithkids
attempting to live my best camping life up at the edge of civilization
but fuck it’s cold
#accidentalpoem #memorialdayweekend #goats #homestead #campingwithkids
May 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
omg I want goats
attempting to live my best camping life up at the edge of civilization
but fuck it’s cold
#accidentalpoem #memorialdayweekend #goats #homestead #campingwithkids
attempting to live my best camping life up at the edge of civilization
but fuck it’s cold
#accidentalpoem #memorialdayweekend #goats #homestead #campingwithkids
Gross.
Senator Ron Johnson ( WI) responded when asked why he voted to take healthcare and food away from children;
“ I never felt it was societies responsibility to take care of other people’s children “
😑
“ I never felt it was societies responsibility to take care of other people’s children “
😑
May 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Gross.
I'm sitting on the couch, reading for school and taking notes. Henry starts saying my name and I look up. He tells me, "Mama, you look so pretty."
I'd like to think that Henry seeing his Mama doing something she absolutely loves is what makes me pretty.
#mothering #mama #boyhood #mothersandsons
I'd like to think that Henry seeing his Mama doing something she absolutely loves is what makes me pretty.
#mothering #mama #boyhood #mothersandsons
May 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I'm sitting on the couch, reading for school and taking notes. Henry starts saying my name and I look up. He tells me, "Mama, you look so pretty."
I'd like to think that Henry seeing his Mama doing something she absolutely loves is what makes me pretty.
#mothering #mama #boyhood #mothersandsons
I'd like to think that Henry seeing his Mama doing something she absolutely loves is what makes me pretty.
#mothering #mama #boyhood #mothersandsons
Reframing Leading and Mothering
"It took years and distance for me to realize I was holding two heavy stories at once: one about what it meant to be a mother, and one about what it meant to lead."
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"It took years and distance for me to realize I was holding two heavy stories at once: one about what it meant to be a mother, and one about what it meant to lead."
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
Reframing Leading and Mothering
And finding where the two meet.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reframing Leading and Mothering
"It took years and distance for me to realize I was holding two heavy stories at once: one about what it meant to be a mother, and one about what it meant to lead."
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
"It took years and distance for me to realize I was holding two heavy stories at once: one about what it meant to be a mother, and one about what it meant to lead."
open.substack.com/pub/everwild...
Reposted by Kirsten Pietraszka
May 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Reposted by Kirsten Pietraszka
Name a film u have seen on VHS.
May 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Name a film u have seen on VHS.
Forever and ever grateful for the gift of boyhood.
May 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Forever and ever grateful for the gift of boyhood.
Revisiting some favorite childhood music favorites with my 5 year old.
You know what? Rafi put out some bangers.
You know what? Rafi put out some bangers.
May 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Revisiting some favorite childhood music favorites with my 5 year old.
You know what? Rafi put out some bangers.
You know what? Rafi put out some bangers.
How quickly would the economy collapse if grandparents stopped providing unpaid childcare? It’s time we stopped building entire systems on invisible labor.
www.vox.com/parenting/41...
#InvisibleLabor #CareWork #MotheringAndLeadership #ChildcareCrisis #FeministEconomics
www.vox.com/parenting/41...
#InvisibleLabor #CareWork #MotheringAndLeadership #ChildcareCrisis #FeministEconomics
These adults have a unique impact on kids’ lives. They need more support.
A bright spot in American family life.
www.vox.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
How quickly would the economy collapse if grandparents stopped providing unpaid childcare? It’s time we stopped building entire systems on invisible labor.
www.vox.com/parenting/41...
#InvisibleLabor #CareWork #MotheringAndLeadership #ChildcareCrisis #FeministEconomics
www.vox.com/parenting/41...
#InvisibleLabor #CareWork #MotheringAndLeadership #ChildcareCrisis #FeministEconomics
My youngest, who’s 5, on being told 3 cookies are too many, “Ugh! C’mon, it’s just 2 and 1!” I mean, the math IS mathing.
May 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
My youngest, who’s 5, on being told 3 cookies are too many, “Ugh! C’mon, it’s just 2 and 1!” I mean, the math IS mathing.
When one of your strongest constructive critics comes at you with words of validation and kindness, it hits in the best way and means so much.
May 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When one of your strongest constructive critics comes at you with words of validation and kindness, it hits in the best way and means so much.