You are not broken. Your career playbook is.
Between Drop Offs is a free private podcast for senior leaders and mothers who are quietly questioning what comes next. Short episodes. Real strategy. Built for the moments between meetings and pickup when your brain will not stop running.
Meet your FREE career-decision toolkit
Private podcast series so you can make confident career decisions.
Each series focuses on one core work challenge.
Clear frameworks so you can think through decisions instead of reacting emotionally
Language you can use in real conversations with managers and partners
Live audio sessions where you can ask questions and get real-time guidance
Support for Every Challenge
What senior leaders say after listening:
Aly Kelsall
"I feel less alone, and feel understood in this season of motherhood and career"
Jen Fraiman
“Mel brings rare clarity and strategy to career decisions”
Angela Olivero
“For the first time…I feel so at peace with my life”
Rachel Scherf
“The systems and clarity I’ve gained have been a total game changer for my career”
Emily Rauch
“Mel’s insights give me clarity, self-compassion, and practical perspective”
Why Between Drop Offs?
I’m Mel Goodman. I spent years as a corporate leader and became a working mom inside demanding, high-performance environments, including at companies like Salesforce. After my first daughter was born, I lived the questions that come before every transition:
Is it the role or the environment?
What actually needs to change?
What’s a real risk versus a fear-based one?
How do I make a decision without burning everything down?
Most days during those seasons, I was still showing up, leading teams, yet quietly questioning everything. Between Drop Offs is the resource I wish I had then. A place to work through those questions in real time, before resentment turns into disengagement or panic turns into a rushed decision.
Between Drop Offs draws on my experience navigating high-stakes career decisions as a working mother, and years of helping other women think clearly about theirs, so you can reconnect to meaning and make intentional choices instead of reacting out of fear.
What’s Inside Between Drop Offs?
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Between Drop Offs (the name of the podcast) gives you language, perspective, and strategy. We also address specific career moments from our live calls that you can listen to as bonus episodes.
Each episode starts with ‘listen when…’ so you can pick and choose which topic speaks to you in the moment. Again, no program or keeping up with anything. -
Many episodes include clear language you can use with your manager, your partner, or your team, so you can set boundaries and advocate without sounding emotional, apologetic, or “difficult.”
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You will learn how to redesign scope, expectations, and ways of working in a way that maintains credibility and performance, while making the role fit your life now.
Common Questions
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It’s strategic guidance rooted in the same way I work with private clients who pay thousands for 1:1 support, adapted into an accessible, audio-first format you can use in real time and for FREE.
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All content is audio-first. Listen when it fits your life.
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No. It’s about deciding how to stay, grow, or change with intention.
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That’s exactly where this starts. You don’t need answers yet. You need better questions.
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Every other week, you’ll receive a new episode.