Join us Monday February 6th at 1pm EST for a 30 min chat (we know you’re busy!) on all things work life. I will be joined by some wonderful special guests! We’re going to dive right in to what works, what doesn’t and the core that makes it all happen – relationships. Each of my special [...]
Work life reform and social good are two parts of the same whole.” As I have dived deeper and deeper into the work life balance conversation, particularly in an American context, I have not been able to hide my shock and anger at the language I find surrounding mothers in the formal workplace. Denigrating, [...]
March 8th is International Women’s Day. Over at www.themotherhood.com I am joining a conversation with the American Cancer Society’s global team to talk about the impact of cancer on our lives and on the lives of women worldwide. From www.themotherhood.com, “We know cancer touches all of us. We’ll share our stories about cancer and our [...]
Gearing up for Christmas? Or a big farewell to 2010? It usually involves food. Your most special recipes, your best efforts. By the end your kitchen is a wreck, strewn with the paraphernalia of a fine feast in the making to be shared with those we love. In the season of peace, joy and goodwill, [...]
To Get From Here: Our family has been trapped in the narrow rigidity of an old-school employer. Under the weight of an obscenely long commute, long hours including weekends, and a structure that regards any kind flexibility as a sign of weakness (precluding our children from spending much time with their father), I chose to [...]
We met Erik Orton earlier in the week, and left his story as he reached crunch time for choosing his next step in the search for integrity in his work life. Time to introduce Erik’s family, five children, all home-schooled. For Part 1 of Work Life Stories: Broadway Baby, go here. “I needed day job [...]
Erik Orton is a playwright, composer and producer by day, and a presentations whiz for a large investment bank by night. Erik’s story is the journey of an integrated life and what that means to him. From high school, he was interested in theatre and music, pursuing a Bachelors in Media Music (film scoring, studio [...]
The big bad world of Wall St high finance is not the most conducive to mothering and flexible work options. Here’s a unique story of just what is possible when you dare to ask. After her MBA, Sariah Toronto spent several years with Citibank and then moved on to another major financial institution for 18 [...]
Working from home is not as easy as it sounds. It is one thing when you’re self-employed and an entirely different proposition when you’re with a company that works hard and plays hard – with long hours, expecting face time and trying to create a culture as well as run a profitable business. Lindsay Hepworth [...]
Meet Design Mom, Gabrielle Blair, mother of five, with her sixth child on the way. She is Co-founder of www.kirtsy.com, “Digg for Chicks” says Mashable, and her Design Mom blog has been named a “Top Motherhood Blog” by the Wall Street Journal. Gabrielle has mothered full-time, run various businesses, worked full time, worked part-time. Warm, [...]
Still a statistically small group, stay-at-home-dads are becoming more prevalent and represent a unique corner of the work life balance milieu. I asked Stephen de las Heras, one of my daddy friends who is parenting and balancing a freelance photography career, if he would share his story. “I’d clawed my way up through the publishing [...]
The first in my series of work life stories is representative of a relatively new piece of the economic puzzle – mothers who work from home, often at night or in the early mornings and make a decent financial contribution in the process. It’s a hybrid approach – entrepreneurial, but with low costs of entry [...]
There is something powerful when people gather around a table. In the midst of too many other to-dos to mention this week, I took several hours and went to lunch with an amazing group of work+life commentators and implementers. Plain and simple, the conversation rocked the house. From the founder of the work+life research movement [...]
Thank you for sharing these last few months with me. Creating this place to write on the conundrum that is work-life balance issues in the modern economy, ask questions and hear from you, has been an unexpected gift. 2009 was a year of reunion, blessings and learning for my family. We made many changes – [...]
I am a Planning Geek There is an opinion that planning creates restrictions. Reduces fluidity, spontaneity. I firmly hold the opposite view. Like budgets, I find planning empowering. Planning gives you a framework, a methodology, an approach. The mistake people make, myself sometimes included, is that the plan becomes the end game. My mantra is: [...]
We’ve been battered by cold and flu season. Since September 4th, at least one member of my family has been sick to some degree. And a couple of weeks ago, a bad cold-turned-bronchitis compounded by a double ear infection, almost flattened me. Of course this period coincided with my husband’s most important time of year [...]
Over at Blessed Nest Perch I’ve been musing on this issue. Mostly at 3:00am it would seem. But days (nights) that threaten to crush you can happen any time to any one, irrespective of whether it’s a crying infant, a family member or dear friend in crisis, a horrible day at work, or something deeply [...]
Having entered the blogosphere relatively recently, I hesitated a little at the vastness of the dialogue, the sheer massive number of voices on topics similar to those I write and think about. I thought a great about the “so what?” question. What’s my point of difference? Why read my blog? Why engage with me? And [...]
