Cover: Alex Freyer & Ian Gardner
August 2026 issue
Presence over pace
"Success isn't a title or a company or a milestone. It's a mentality." Alex Freyer & Ian Gardner
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August 2026
Choose presence over pace.
Four features on what it costs, and what it builds, to choose depth over speed. From a marriage and a company forged in a NICU room, to the mothers building slower, more honest businesses in its wake.
"Success isn't a title or a company or a milestone. It's a mentality." Alex Freyer & Ian Gardner, cover feature
In this issue
Four features, on the record.
Table of contents
What's inside.
- Presence Over PaceCover feature interview with Alex Freyer & Ian Gardner 08
- For the RecordAlex Freyer & Ian Gardner, MilkWise 24
- It Was Never His HeartSignature interview with Sophie Epton 27
- The Mother With Too Many HatsEssay, by Sarah Emmerson 35
- We Saw the Odds and Jumped AnywaySignature interview with Amy Kiska & Molly Morse 38
- What Motherhood BuildsMothered Media Research, a snapshot of the 2026 report 48
- Found in the Grocery BagEssay, by Sheryl Rothert 49
- Living in the Space BetweenSignature interview with Hadley Ristvedt 52
- No One Was Worried About MeEssay, by Natalie Fuertes 60