Career Growth, Motherhood & Letting Go of the “Shoulds” with Kelly Mooney, Author of UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise
Release Date: 05/12/2026
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info_outlineOn this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with the Founder of Equipt Women, author, and gender equality advocate Kelly Mooney to discuss career growth, motherhood, self-leadership, and how to let go of the “shoulds” that can shape how women define success. Kelly shares insights from her book, UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise, and opens up about navigating an ambitious career while raising a family.
Tune in to hear a thoughtful conversation about advancing your career, elevating your earnings, making aligned decisions through different seasons of life, and creating success on your own terms.
Key Takeaways From This Episode:
- How to let go of the “shoulds” and define success for yourself
- Tips to advance your career and elevate your earnings
- The importance of self-leadership in work and life
- How Kelly navigated motherhood alongside an ambitious career
- Why career decisions can evolve through different seasons of life
- Insights from Kelly’s forthcoming book, UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise
ABOUT KELLY MOONEY
Kelly Mooney is a three-time author, speaker, board director of a public company, and longtime gender equality advocate. She’s also a wife and mother of two who built her career while navigating the realities of modern work and family life. Over a decades-long career, she has experienced the full arc of the workplace—from intern to CEO—ultimately co-owning and leading the nation’s largest women-owned digital agency, scaling it 15x, and later exiting the business to IBM, where she served as Chief Experience Officer for North America. Consistently ahead of the curve, Kelly anticipated the power shift from organizations to consumers, authoring The Ten Demandments and The Open Brand—the latter becoming required reading at Stanford and other universities. She also founded the Equipt Women Foundation and created Get Equipt, a widely read weekly career advice newsletter.
In her forthcoming book, UP! The Playbook for Every Woman on the Rise (Amplify; June 2026), Kelly and her sister Katy Mooney stress that the bigger issue isn’t whether a woman works or stays home but the cultural habit of turning personal choices into universal mandates. When “success” is constantly redefined for women by trends or backlash to burnout, it distorts how they evaluate risk, ambition, money, and identity. The book offers a unique approach: no “shoulds,” no one-size-fits-all formula, but a practical framework for self-leadership, financial awareness, and career wellness so women can design lives that flex with changing seasons.
About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer:
Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker and TEDx speaker supporting organizations and individuals on their journeys for more happiness and success. She is the award-winning author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business November 19, 2024). With Kristel’s healthcare background, she provides data driven actionable strategies to leverage happiness and high-power habits to drive growth mindsets, peak performance, profitability, well-being and a culture of excellence. Kristel's keynotes provide insights to “Live Greatly” while promoting leadership development and team building.
Kristel is the creator and host of her global top self-improvement podcast, Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. As an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant having practiced clinically in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel has a unique perspective into attaining a mindset for more happiness and success. Kristel has presented to groups from the American Gas Association, Bank of America, bp, Commercial Metals Company, General Mills, Northwestern University, Santander Bank and many more. Kristel's work has been featured in Forbes and she has had multiple TV appearances including NBC News Daily, ABC News Live, FOX Weather, ABC 7 Chicago, WGN Daytime Chicago and more. Kristel lives in the Chicago, IL area and she can be booked for speaking engagements worldwide.
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