Feel stuck? Choose to become unstuck. Have you ever felt stuck in a job, with a daycare, or just in a bad situation? It's a sinking feeling when you feel like there's no way out. But we have good news! In this month’s Working Mom chat Dana and Lizzy will talk about how you always have a choice...
"Work-life balance" is an overused phrase that unrealistically reinforces an idea that equal parts of work and life are the goal. They're not. Today we know that work is a part of life and that we are constantly juggling them both. While in some ways this is exciting and wonderful, in others it's...
How do you talk about abuse if you're a survivor? What do you tell children about abuse? Surviving abuse is one of the most challenging things to talk to anyone about, much less your children, and yet it can be so important to anyone's sense of power to talk about the most awful things....
Welcome to the first post in our monthly InPower Working Mom Chat series! Today Lizzy and Dana will talk about how important it is to get grounded and CLEAR as a working mom, for the sake of yourself, your family and your work! - InPower Editors Come join us Wednesday, November 12th at 1:00PM EST...
I’m excited to interview Lizzy McGrory, who turned her own struggles to be a successful working mom into a coaching practice that helps working moms find their power from the inside out. She’s written a book about it, too, which is full of practical tips, advice and exercises. We believe this...
Doesn't becoming a mom make us more emotionally intelligent? Lizzy surprised herself with a 360 that said, "um, no!" Peak into Liz's journey back to emotional intelligence in this interesting post about the impact of motherhood on her professional performance. - InPower Editors What Doesn’t Break...
So many times when we're thinking about balancing our work-life ideas of success, we think about juggling the meetings and the soccer games, but we forget about the other important parts of our life - like finances! Christy enjoyed reading Michelle Perry Higgins' approach to this more...
It's no secret that being a working mom is a tough job, and everyone seems to have an opinion on the downsides. When many working mothers hear, "you can have it all," they also hear, "and since you don't have it all you must be doing something wrong." We want to honor Shana, at the...
Moms know how much stress they're under, but what does a non-mom work stress expert think? We really appreciate that Paula took a look at stress through a mother's eyes in today's post where she reviewed the new book by Katrina Alcorn, Maxed Out. Along the way, Paula teaches us all about stress...
The other day I found myself at the doctor’s office for the second time in two weeks. I wasn’t sick. My kids were. First, one caught a virus and juuusssst as he was starting to feel better – poof! – he gave the same freakin’ germs to his brother. “If I know what’s wrong, can’t I just give one kid...
