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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Regina Bethencourt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-bethencourt/) | Tenuto (https://tenutoconsulting.com/)

In today’s episode we discuss, how to build a workplace where moms can thrive — the Catholic way.

To do this, we enlisted Regina Bethencourt, founder of Tenuto Consulting, a creative marketing agency for mission-driven organizations.

Regina started out in a traditional 9-to-5 PR firm. She watched a pregnant colleague get treated like her baby was a problem to hide, and she knew she could not raise her own children that way. So she left, started freelancing, and built the kind of work she wished existed.

Today Tenuto is a team of eight offering 10, 20, and 30-hour-a-week roles alongside full-time work. Clients still get an attentive, proactive agency. Inside, moms get to be present at home in the season when their children need them most — and still be ready as professionals when that season changes.

From there we go deeper: why women work differently than men, why matriarchs will be the ones to rebuild our neighborhoods, how a husband and wife run a family like a joint venture, and how to build a family brand and legacy your grandchildren will inherit.

Core Lesson:

“Build the work around the vocation, not the other way around.”

Most companies try to fix motherhood by forcing moms to work exactly like men — 40 hours, in an office, pretending nothing at home ever interrupts the day. That does not work, and it is breaking our communities.

Regina’s answer is not lower standards. It is better systems: shift coverage across the week, backups who stay up to speed on every client, and a team culture where everyone knows each other’s children and steps in with charity when life happens. Do that, and flexibility stops being a weakness. It becomes your unfair advantage.

And this is bigger than one agency. If women get work that leaves room for family, they get time back for the neighborhood — for other moms, for the parish, for the human connection we have all lost.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

• Patrick Lencioni (https://www.tablegroup.com/pat/?srsltid=AU7gw4W-HsHz_NHyfoxCxu1FY-XCHVYgsGXWCNDlX2urTG5edbKvmjHR)

• St. Edith Stein (https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=179)

• Well-Read Mom (https://wellreadmom.com/)

• 2 Timothy 1:7

Select Quotes:

• We need to honor the fact that a parent is bringing up children who are the next generation. ” — Regina Bethencourt

• “We want to redefine how you show up professionally. And it is ...