Karina Monesson — A Day In Her Life

This week,we're sitting down with Karina Monesson, a workforce researcher at Great Place to Work and mom of four girls (ages 1, 3, 6, and 11) in South Florida. Karina shares what it's like to run a three-and-a-half-hour bedtime marathon every night, wear a continuous glucose monitor that shows her blood sugar spiking from stress alone, and grow a food forest of mango, avocado, and banana trees in her tiny backyard.

In this deeply honest conversation, Karina opens up about getting sober at 24, sending her oldest to sleep-away camp (and the backlash she got online for it), and the two "balls" she's currently dropping — movement and time with her husband. We talk about the Ellyn Satter Division of Responsibility that ended dinner-table battles, why she nurses each baby well past a year, and why leaving a comfortable, safe job became the moment that changed her career trajectory forever.

What We Cover:

Why she describes her days as loud, long, and purposeful, and the bedtime marathon (7pm to 10:30pm) that comes with raising four girls ages 1 to 11.
Her path from entry-level PR to executive ghostwriter to leading workforce research at Great Place to Work, and the moment she found the courage to leave a "comfortable, safe" job.
Getting sober at 24 and why she's more proud of her recovery than ashamed of her addiction.
Sending her 10-year-old to sleepaway camp for the first time (and the backlash she got online), plus what "The Anxious Generation" taught her about independence.
The Ellyn Satter Division of Responsibility that ended dinner-table battles and how she’s become a no recipe cook, and why it’s her superpower.
Building a .2-acre food forest in her South Florida backyard with mango, avocado, and banana trees, and the joy of feeding her family something she grew herself.
The two "balls" she's dropping right now — movement and time with her husband — and finally learning to ask for the village support she needed.
Why she's building "Corporate Homemaker" on Instagram around one tagline: "We can be both."

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