Terri Flannagan, a small business consultant and strategist, has been named a partner with CARRY Media, a multimedia platform that tells the stories of working mothers.
Originally from Plano, Texas, and currently living in Charlotte, N.C., Flannagan is herself a proud mother of three, according to her website.
"The unbelievable mental load is hands down the biggest challenge as a working mom," she said. "I wish I could download all that is in my brain at any given moment, but I don't think there is a thumb drive or cloud big enough to hold it all. The hardest part is often the mental load is so heavy everything at hand becomes paralyzing ... from work to laundry, showing up for friends to planning the weekend activities."
When asked why she joined the CARRY team, she said: “I don't remember a time when I haven't ‘worked’ in some capacity, except for a handful of months to enjoy having sweet newborns at home. For the past 10 years, I have built a successful consulting business almost exclusively coming alongside moms as they launch dreams, rework their businesses or simply need an advocate to keep them running on assignment. So when the opportunity landed in my lap to work alongside former client and friend, Paula Faris, to champion working moms, there was no hesitation. Together, our team is realizing how important it is to shine a light on the burdens of working moms and provide hope and solutions to keep us all in the game.”
CARRY Media’s purpose is to advocate for working moms through “disruptive storytelling.” It also conducts its own research, finding that 74% of working moms feel some form of “mom guilt” and that 1 in 3 have had to consider choosing between a career and family.
When asked what goals she has for CARRY, Flannagan said “to build a media company that has the opportunity to put stories out on large platforms so that by telling stories of working moms, people would recognize the gifts, not simply the cost. And in the margins of telling the stories, we will change the game to keep working moms showing up and dreaming big through give-back initiatives and ... corporate change.”