Every working mother struggles with the conflict between career and family. One of the main concerns is discovering how to follow your career aspirations while being actively engaged in your child’s upbringing. When the tension between work and life reaches its peak, you might wonder if you should even be working at all. Before you [...]

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This morning my son, who loves to help me with housework, was vacuuming the dust from the corners of my bedroom. As he was whooshed the vacuum extension around, he caught hold of something underneath my nightstand and it made a terrible sound.
I rushed over to him and found my book, How to Win Friends [...]

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On the behest of a colleague, I started reading the book Women Don’t Ask and I’ve got to admit, it’s got me pretty riled up. I’ve read about 1/3 of the book so far, but got hung up on pages 48-49 that describes how women who commit to raising their children full-time or part-time are [...]

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It wasn’t until I left my traditional, full-time career to start a consulting practice, that I understood the importance of personal branding. As a solo-consultant and business owner, I was my company’s brand and to reach my prospective clients in a meaningful way, I needed to be absolutely, crystal clear about the value proposition I [...]

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Today my friend (Lori K. Long, PhD) released her new book. It’s a powerful resource for any busy working parent who struggles with the day-to-day demands of work and family. The book is now a part of my library of tools I’ll use to manage my own work/life and that of my clients. I encourage [...]

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The day before we left on our family vacation, I received a package in the mail from MOPS. When the package arrived, I was neck deep in trying to pack our family of five for a fun-filled Disney Cruise (although the preparation to get there was far from fun). So, I ripped it open, noticed [...]

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Take This Book to Work: How to Ask for (and Get) Money, Fulfillment, and Advancement
by Tory Johnson and Robyn Spizman
Sometimes, YOU are the only thing getting in the way of getting what you want from work?
And the reason you aren’t getting what you want, is because you may not know how to ask.
Thankfully, Tory [...]

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My dad introduced me to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book, by Stephen Covey, when I was 14 years old. At the time I could have cared less about it. So the book got filed away for the next four years.
Then, [...]

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Can working moms climb the corporate ladder? I think so and you will too after you read Stop [...]

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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Carol Evans, CEO of Working Mother Media and author of the newly released book, This Is [...]

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