Raised to Lead: What My Mom Taught Me About Product Management

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Happy Mother's Day from Beyond Product Management. In this special solo episode, Heather Miller sets the guest chair aside and gets personal — sharing what her mom taught her about product leadership long before she ever ran a roadmap or wrote a product brief. Heather opens up about earning the nickname "Mom of the Team" early in her career as the only woman on an all-male technical team — and what it took for her to stop questioning it and start owning it. It wasn't about gender. It was about behavior: noticing when someone had gone quiet, holding space for the tension nobody else was naming, and doing the behind-the-scenes work that never shows up in a Jira board but keeps a team from hitting a wall. In this episode, Heather explores: Why the most important product leadership skills are often invisible — and why that's okay What "the Mom of the Team" really means, and when a nickname is a term of endearment vs.