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Send us a textwith Daisy DowlingBalancing work and parenting feels impossible sometimes, doesn't it? Between deadlines, meetings, and the constant demands at home, many working parents feel overwhelmed, guilty, and stretched too thin.In this episode, Dr. Cindy Hovington talks with Daisy Dowling, author of Work Parent, about redefining what work-life balance really means — and why aiming for a perfect “straight line” isn't the goal. Instead, Daisy shares practical “hacks” to help working parents manage stress, set realistic expectations, and take meaningful moments for rest and self-care.They dive into how to build your personal and professional “brand,” why keeping an “already done” list can lower overwhelm, and how small choices today can lead to a happier future — both at work and at home.This episode is full of relatable insights and actionable strategies to help working parents feel less frazzled and more grounded.
Beyond the Sessions is answering YOUR parenting questions! In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Hershberg and I talk about... - Dr. Sarah and Dr. Rebecca debate whether mom-guilt is inherent to all mothers or a societally structured construct (Spoiler: Dr. Rebecca wins this battle!) - The critical distinction between distress and guilt and why one can be a destructive grenade in parenting. - Releasing guilt is a form of activism - we're explaining why. - How to course correct once you've noticed you're parenting from a space of guilt. - The question to ask yourself that can help guide your behaviors as a parent that come from a place of attunement and trust, rather than guilt or fear. - Using a “values-driven” distinction to help you determine the root reasons you are making certain decisions, and how bringing this into your consciousness can be helpful. ADDITIONAL PODCAST EPISODES YOU MAY LIKE:
Neha Ruch is sharing strategies for embracing flexibility as you balance, shift, and grow in both your career and parenthood. In this episode we explore: - How to redefine what “career” means to you at this stage of life and navigate the evolving roles of being a working or stay-at-home parent. - Why downshifting your career can be a valuable smaller step if you're not ready to take a full pause. - Preparing for this transition to feel less overwhelming—emotionally, financially, and in terms of your shifting identity. - Supporting women in feeling validated and respected in their choices to dial up or down in their careers. - How motherhood can be a time to foster creativity and the importance of staying connected to what brings you joy—whether it's for work or personal fulfillment. - A good first step for moms who don't know where to begin in making this shift. - What a “family administration” meeting is and how to evaluate what's working and what's not—giving yourself permission to let go of what isn't serving you. Don't miss this episode that will help you redefine what career means to you! LEARN MORE ABOUT NEHA: https://www.motheruntitled.com/ READ NEHA'S NEW BOOK:
Parenthood can change a work trajectory like little else. So when and how do you decide to have kids, especially if you're going to be the person carrying that pregnancy? On today's episode, Jessi talks to several parents about their journeys, shares some thoughts about her own, and finally gets advice on what to consider from expert Daisy Dowling, author of Workparent: The complete guide to succeeding on the job, staying true to yourself, and raising happy kids. Daisy has lots to think about - including a few things that may not be top of mind right away. Follow Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda, Kelly Shorr, Garlia Cornelia Jones, Danielle Pickens, and Daisy Dowling on LinkedIn. These parents do so much, in and out of the parenting field. Be sure to check out Ashley's book, Garlia's podcast and theater festivals, Danielle's coaching, and Daisy's coaching and book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community to share your thoughts on balancing starting a family with career! There are three great ways to engage: You can subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET, and join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup
What does “staying true to yourself” mean to you?How can you balance a demanding career and thrive as a working parent?My guest on this episode is Daisy Dowling, Founder & CEO of Workparent and author “Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids”During our conversation, Daisy and I discuss:Why she went into HR after getting her Harvard MBAWhat she learned about coaching leaders while at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and BlackstoneWhy she thinks the best talent leaders are “barrier breakers” who help people to unlock their potentialWhy she asks her coaching clients to define their professional and parenting brand?Why every working parent should have an “already done” list to track their daily accomplishmentsHer advice for how HR professionals can balance our demanding careers and succeed in their personal livesConnecting with Daisy:Daisy Dowling on LinkedInWorkparent - Support and solutions for all working parentsResources:Why Did We Ever Go Into HR: Harvard Business Review article by Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy Dowling
Working parents have traditionally been forced to compartmentalize their roles. Make sure we don't hear the baby crying on the Zoom. Be fully present as a parent without any distractions or interruptions. But we are whole beings, with both of those vital parts integrated to form who we are. Here to help parents bridge that gap and shift the narrative to see how being both career-driven AND family-focused can be an incredible strength is Daisy Dowling. Daisy is the Founder & CEO of Workparent and the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Whether you are an employee, entrepreneur, freelancer, or employer, this episode will cover practical strategies you can use to help you create an ideal home and office environment that support your needs as a whole person. I want to hear from you! Send me a topic you want me to cover or a question you want answered on the show! ✨ DM me on Instagram at @securelyattachedpodcast or @drsarahbren ✨ Send an email to info@drsarahbren.com ✨ And check out drsarahbren.com for more parenting resources
On today's Local News Hour, host Leslie Thatcher's guests include: (2:01 ) Interim Summit County Manager Janna Young who discusses the agenda for Wednesday's county council meeting, then (23:22) Workparent author Daisy Dowling and HIVE co-founders Perry Hardy and Joanna Kahn discuss Dowling's visit to Park City for two workshops to coach working parents, and finishing the hour is (37:51) new General Manager and COO of Deer Valley Resort Todd Bennett who introduces himself to the community.
Calling all working parents and caregivers! We see you, and we know you don't have much time. Career coach Daisy Dowling shares time management tips to help working parents find sanity and joy.
Calling all working parents and caregivers! We see you, and we know you don't have much time. Career coach Daisy Dowling shares time management tips to help working parents find sanity and joy.
Daisy discusses how you can bring together your roles as a professional and as a parent --- and how you can excel at both.
Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm, and in 2021 she published the book Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. As an advisor to working parents, Daisy draws on her own experience as a parent, her years in investment banking, and her work in the field of talent and leadership development to help people find happiness in their careers. In this episode, Stew talks with Daisy about her evolution from investment banking to advisor for working parents, the useful tips she gathered from speaking to a variety of working parents across different stages of the parenting life cycle, what it takes to be the mayor of the village that raises your children, and more about how to succeed as a parent and in your career. Here then is an invitation for you, a challenge, after you've had a chance to listen to this episode, and if you are a working parent. Take a moment to find an opportunity to use the advice Daisy offered at the end of this conversation: Express appreciation to your parenting partner – anyone who helps you in this aspect of your life – for their contribution, however big or small, and see what happens. Share your reactions to this episode and suggestions for future shows with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
OK, we know ALL parents work, they just don't all get paid. For those of us that DO work for pay, are we thriving or just surviving?! Is parenting harder now than ever? Is that generational, or the pandemic? What gives? And how do we give...to ourselves, our families and our work in a way that feels fulfilling and sustainable? Today's episode will unpack just this. Daisy Dowling is the Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She began Workparent with a simple, bold vision: that all working parents could succeed on the job and remain true to themselves while raising terrific kids -- and take pride in doing so. Her new book, “The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids” has been called “the definitive guide for working parents”. In addition, Daisy is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, the editor for The HBR Working Parents Series of books and her advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times (UK), Bloomberg and CNN. Together we break down the evolution of working parents through the past few generations, we discuss the challenges working parents face throughout the various ages of their children, we talk about finding flexibility within your workplace or when looking for a new opportunity, and tips on how to set up a contract with yourself, and boundaries, to ensure you are keeping all legs of your stool grounded. Enjoy this insightful, validating and timely conversation with Daisy about making the most out of your one unique life, both as a parent and a professional. You can connect with Daisy via www.workparent.com and LinkedIn #workparent
Zibby is joined by Daisy Dowling, her beloved fourth-grade teacher's daughter, to discuss Daisy's new book, Workparent. After serving as a corporate executive coach assisting mothers and fathers trying to strike the right work-life balance, Daisy realized there are lessons every working parent can learn. She shares why she made sure to include advice for all types of families, how she structured her research as if she were an architect, and the importance of figuring out your own working-parent template while not comparing yourself to anyone else.Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3jhWqkzBookshop: https://bit.ly/3kv2IwC See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
My guest today is Daisy Dowling. Daisy has worked in senior leadership roles on Wall Street and has now left that behind to start workparent helping companies to best support working parents. She's also the author of ‘Workparent: Thrive in your career while raising happy children'. So, if you have kids or you're thinking of having kids this episode and Daisy's book are for you. We talk about how to support working parents, which organizations do it well, what to do if your boss isn't so understanding. We talked about the Zeigarnik effect, how to think about money and also what it was like to leave the Lehman Brothers just before it collapsed in the 2008 crash plus much more.Daisy talked about how to set up a dialogue between a manager and a working parent: (What do you think organizations can do to support managers to change those practices and to, and to really make it more of an embedded cultural response?) "So one thing I always advise managers to do and listen, most of the managers who I talk to are supportive there. They may not want to spend all of their time coaching working parents because they're busy or they've got their own kids at home.And they feel a little bit overwhelmed themselves. So, sometimes they don't want to cross the line or get into the support and counselling business and I understand that, but the one really powerful thing that managers can do. It's small but it really works is to ask the people on their teams, open-ended questions to signal support, to signal the fact that the door is open, that this conversation has permission that you don't have to hide what you have going on as a working parent.And as soon as you ask that, then. You're relating in a more human way. You're not making any promises. You're not telling somebody you can work at home five days a week, but what you are doing is putting yourself into a sort of a peer to peer conversation in which some problem solving can begin to happen."We also touched on the topic of productivity and guilt for lack of it:(I think, you know, that's also true of people's general sorts of guilt around how productive they've been, right?) "What I also see a lot of people do, and this is kind of to the productivity point is they compare themselves to other parents, particularly to their own parents or to pass mentors kind of, you know, early-career role models.And they say, well, they were able to do it. We are in a different productivity era, than our parents were, right? They, your mom or dad, may have worked full time. But he or she wasn't doing that with an iPhone in their pocket, that they had to remain glued to all the time, even while on holiday.So the pressures are different. And now it's time to pivot and to learn some of the compensatory skills that allow us to kind of manage and live the lives that we want today with the current set of circumstances, the current environment that we have."And we talked about the best way to interact with your children:(The importance of blank space and, and sort of being able to create space for play and like play really comes from being spontaneous and having, and, and just having a few bits of art materials or dressing up stuff around you, but it's actually just about almost being bored or just having to muse yourself as a kid as well.)"Well, one way is to kind of unschedule it and to do instead of to try to talk. So, you know, to just get down on the ground with your kid and start playing Legos, or to take, you know, a ball into the backyard and start kicking it around. And to have that be the connective time with your kid, that you don't have to be doing something that's outcome-oriented or asking your child, how was your day.Because that's a very adult thing to do. Your child just wants to feel like they're not performing for you. They're just got your attention. They don't have to be stressed or answering questions. I think she was five when my daughter said, I used to come home and say, how was your day? What happened at school? Whatever. And she said, first hugs, then play, then talk. Which were great advice and good coaching for me."
The working parents' best friend, advocate and wise advisor, Daisy Dowling, reflects on how much has changed and how much still has to change.
Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she couldn't find one on how to be a working successful parent. Daisy goes on to stress how daunting it is to be a new parent and working while maintaining balance between the two. She said her favorite chapter in her book is the one on how we need to manage our emotions and to not feel guilty for working instead of staying home with your children. Daisy says that there are a lot of parents who have problems with switching between work mode and being a parent especially if you work remote from home. Creating a structured schedule to help you close shop and turn on parent mode. Alan welcomes Ryll Burgin-Doyle - Author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and creator of her own non-profit, stepUP Foundation. Ryll shares about growing up with a successful entrepreneur, her mother, and what it was like to run a business. She later found that her passion is to help companies grow . Her diverse background of helping companies grow into multi million dollar business are known all across Australia. Ryll says that business owners need to be more strategic. To work backwards from the future you are creating versus working forward from your current constraints and circumstances. She goes on to say how all companies should be embracing technology to promote their business. Even if it's just facebook, it's still a platform to get attention. [00:00:00] Successful and Satisfying [00:05:32] Finding the Balance [00:11:30] Structured Schedule [00:18:20] Passion [00:25:38] More Strategic [00:33:21] Embrace Technology
How does one navigate and juggle workplace and parental responsibilities simultaneously? This week we're joined by Daisy Dowling, an executive coach specializing in working parents… The post Episode 238: Daisy Dowling – Workparent first appeared on Bregman Partners.
Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she couldn't find one on how to be a working successful parent. Daisy goes on to stress how daunting it is to be a new parent and working while maintaining balance between the two. She said her favorite chapter in her book is the one on how we need to manage our emotions and to not feel guilty for working instead of staying home with your children. Daisy says that there are a lot of parents who have problems with switching between work mode and being a parent especially if you work remote from home. Creating a structured schedule to help you close shop and turn on parent mode. Alan welcomes Ryll Burgin-Doyle - Author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and creator of her own non-profit, stepUP Foundation. Ryll shares about growing up with a successful entrepreneur, her mother, and what it was like to run a business. She later found that her passion is to help companies grow . Her diverse background of helping companies grow into multi million dollar business are known all across Australia. Ryll says that business owners need to be more strategic. To work backwards from the future you are creating versus working forward from your current constraints and circumstances. She goes on to say how all companies should be embracing technology to promote their business. Even if it's just facebook, it's still a platform to get attention. [00:00:00] Successful and Satisfying [00:05:32] Finding the Balance [00:11:30] Structured Schedule [00:18:20] Passion [00:25:38] More Strategic [00:33:21] Embrace Technology
Daisy Dowling is a leading executive coach, full-time working parent to two young children and author of WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids (May 25, 2021). Dowling runs an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She also writes about working-parent issues for Harvard Business Review and is the series editor for The HBR Working Parents Series collection of books. In WORKPARENT, she draws on this experience—including years of coaching hundreds of working parents one-on-one—to coach readers on how to be the professional, parent and person you want to be from the day you find out you're expecting until the day your child leaves home. What Mastering the Art of French Cooking is to aspiring chefs, and What to Expect While You're Expecting is to pregnant women, WORKPARENT will be to working parents everywhere – an all-in-one resource for every working mother and father.
It is almost a common theme for working parents to find it hard to be successful at parenthood. Dr. Diane Hamilton's guest for this episode will not only tell you that it should be done, but also that it can be done. Daisy Dowling is the founder & CEO of Workparent, the leading training and coaching firm for working parents and their organizations. In this conversation, Daisy discusses some solutions to common parenting. She shares how the pandemic affected care arrangements and how it forced us to make difficult decisions and pivots. She talks about ways of connecting with your children and making time for them despite your hectic work schedule.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join the Take The Lead community today:DrDianeHamilton.comDr. Diane Hamilton FacebookDr. Diane Hamilton TwitterDr. Diane Hamilton LinkedInDr. Diane Hamilton YouTubeDr. Diane Hamilton Instagram
Even with 52 million Americans working and parenting at the same time, working parenthood can still feel like a lonely (and exhausting) proposition.. Global talent expert and coach Daisy Dowling joins Jennifer to consider the challenges currently facing working moms and dads — and shares solutions from her new book, Workparent. Please help us grow: Rate, review and subscribe to The Breadwinners today! Episode Links Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids A Way Forward for Working Parents A Working Parent's Survival Guide Want more Jennifer? Visit Jennwork.com Want more Rachael? Visit RachaelEllison.com Want more Daisy? Visit Workparent.com Visit The Breadwinners Store! Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's show, a conversation about the financial and career-related costs of being a working parent - and how to design a more fulfilling, dignified (and affordable) life for you and your family, especially as we emerge from the pandemic. Guest Daisy Dowling is a 20-year Wall St. veteran who now coaches working parents, helping them get to the top of their game (she's also a mom to two young kids). Her new book is WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. She offers great advice for aspiring parents, as well.
Successful adults today face more challenges than ever as the demands of both parenting and the workplace continue to evolve. Daisy Dowling has seen this firsthand in her experiences as an executive coach and a mother. She talks with Kindra about how to think about these dueling responsibilities and gives some tips for succeeding at both. Buy Daisy's book, Workparent, here: https://amzn.to/3voV1LW This episode is sponsored by BELAY. Text the word SUCCESS to 55123 for your free download from BELAY or visit belaysolutions.com/success See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wouldn't it be awesome if you had a coach you could turn to for advice and guidance on how to be a more confident, capable, and in-control working parent? Good news, she exists! Daisy Dowling is a leading executive coach, mom of two, and author of the new book, Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. It's a comprehensive resource packed with practical tips and techniques on how to take better care of yourself, your family, and your career. Daisy joins us to share the one thing that all happy and confident workparents have in common: the right mindset. She lets us in on how to achieve it, and she shares practical (and life-changing!) advice on everything from confronting mom guilt, to finding great childcare, to setting up flexible work arrangements, to being more deliberate about setting aside time for your family – and yourself. Listen to this episode to learn: -Why you shouldn't beat yourself up over feelings of guilt as a working parent (and strategies to overcome it) -Simple, practical tips to get a better handle on your busy days, prioritize what's most important, and manage your time effectively -Techniques for being more intentional about taking the time you need to rest, recalibrate, and recharge -How to be more strategic and thoughtful about finding the child care arrangement that meets your and your family's needs -Why “flexibility” at work is not one-size-fits-all, and how to get creative about finding the flexibility model that fits your specific work/life situation -How employers have a big role to play in defining the success of the parents in their workforce, and what they can do to create more workparent-friendly cultures For more information, visit https://www.workparent.com/book
Successful adults today face more challenges than ever as the demands of both parenting and the workplace continue to evolve. Daisy Dowling has seen this firsthand in her experiences as an executive coach and a mother. She talks with Kindra about how to think about these dueling responsibilities and gives some tips for succeeding at both. Buy Daisy's book, Workparent, here: https://amzn.to/3voV1LW This episode is sponsored by BELAY. Text the word SUCCESS to 55123 for your free download from BELAY or visit belaysolutions.com/success See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Successful adults today face more challenges than ever as the demands of both parenting and the workplace continue to evolve. Daisy Dowling has seen this firsthand in her experiences as an executive coach and a mother. She talks with Kindra about how to think about these dueling responsibilities and gives some tips for succeeding at both. Buy Daisy's book, Workparent, here: https://amzn.to/3voV1LW This episode is sponsored by BELAY. Text the word SUCCESS to 55123 for your free download from BELAY or visit belaysolutions.com/success See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We talk to author Daisy Dowling about her book, Workparent: The Complete Guide To Succedding on the Job, Staying True To Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids, and how it guides parents to help them with working and being a parent. Find out more at workparent.com.
Daisy Dowling talks about how working parents can feel more capable, calm and confident about combining kids and careers.
You don’t have to be a parent to realize the challenges that working parents face as they navigate the transition to parenthood and returning to work after a shift in their professional identity.In today’s episode, Emilie continues our series on the intersection of motherhood and work with Daisy Dowling, the founder and CEO of Workparent, a leading consulting, training, and research firm focused on working parents and the organizations that employ them, to shed light, and bring more transparency and empathy to the workplace for working parents.Related Links:Learn more about Daisy’s work at WorkparentGrab a copy of Daisy’s book WorkparentEp 311: How to Talk About Marital Status, Parental Status, an Pregnancy in the InterviewLearn more about Level Up, our leadership acceleratorJoin the Bossed Up Courage Community on FacebookGot a career conundrum you want me to cover on the podcast? Call and leave me a voicemail NOW at 910-668-BOSS(2677).
The past year has been an interesting one for just about everyone, but especially for working parents, who in many cases had to reconfigure how to support their employers and care for their children on the fly. What does the future look like for working parents? To answer that question, I wanted to turn to Daisy Wademan Dowling. She’s the Founder & CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching, and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives. She also writes about working-parent issues for Harvard Business Review and is the series editor for The HBR Working Parents Series collection of books. She’s been featured in the WSJ, NYT, Financial Times, and Washington Post. And finally, she’s the author of WORKPARENT: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids, out as of May 25th from Harvard Business Review Press. As always, we welcome your feedback. Please make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Play.
Being a working parent is hard— between negotiating work/life boundaries, mitigating feelings of guilt, and wanting to excel as both a parent and a professional, things can get overwhelming. Daisy Dowling, author of Workparent: Thrive in Your Career While Raising Happy Children, is here to share her advice on how to do just that. Check out Your Teen on Facebook here!
We interview Daisy Dowling, author of the book Workparent, about what the pandemic revealed about working moms, and how to work towards that elusive balance as we move forward. In this episode we also talk about: Jenny Lawson’s new book, Broken in the Best Possible Way Sweetology Cake-Decorating Kits Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Face Stick ”I’m Vaccinated” Buttons Peter Thomas Roth Instant Mineral Broad Spectrum SPF 45 Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids Photo by Sai De Silva on Unsplash
Hanukkah (0:00:00) One of the great parts of the “holiday” season is that we can celebrate many holidays! From Diwali to Christmas to Hanukkah, there are so many reasons to celebrate. We are discussing Hanukkah and the Jewish tradition that this holiday brings to the “season's greetings”. We are joined by Carolyn Greenberg, the Salt Lake City Jewish Community Center special events coordinator, to talk about this historical and significant holiday. Caring for Elderly Relatives (0:16:08) Who's going over the river and through the woods to their grandmother's house for the holidays? While this is fun and exciting, it can sometimes be incredibly stressful on our elderly loved ones. How can we make the holidays as enjoyable for them as they are for us? Here with us to answer these questions is Amy Fuchs, a certified aging life care consultant and founder of the elder care consulting firm, The Elder Expert. Success with Breastfeeding (0:32:39) Are you looking for help when it comes to breastfeeding? Baby Cafes are clinics throughout the country where women can get breastfeeding education and peer to peer support for free. Many women struggle with understanding their bodies when they are breastfeeding, and in-home consultations can be expensive, especially as you are dealing with the other expenses of raising a new baby. These support groups can be really insightful and helpful. We are joined by two lactation consultants Anne Tullis and Sherri Gunn, who are founders of their own business “Success with Breastfeeding”. Parental Leave (0:50:29) Are you expecting a new baby? The months leading up to a new baby can be happy and exciting, and also extremely stressful—especially if you have to worry about work on top of everything else! So what can you do to navigate that complicated time of balancing work and a new baby? Here to share some tips with us about making the most out of parental leave is Daisy Dowling, founder and CEO of Workparent, a training and consulting firm that supports working parents and the organizations that employ them. Holiday Boundaries (1:05:59) Between the monetary stress, the mess of decorations, and your in-laws breathing down your neck, the holidays can be a stressful time. But maybe it doesn't need to be. Just like so many other parts of our lives, setting boundaries during the holidays may be just the thing to let us enjoy this time. Ganel-Lyn Condie has some suggestions on how we can do this. Ganel-Lyn is a friend of the show and motivational speaker and we're happy to have her on the show to discuss this important topic. Shareable Holiday Baked Goods (1:25:47) One of the best ways to spread holiday cheer is by sharing delicious baked goods! Whether you're leaving them on a front porch or bringing them to a party, holiday treats will brighten even the grumpiest of scrooges and grinches during this time of year. Are you in need of some holiday baking inspiration? James Schend is with us to give some great ideas for some shareable holiday baked goods! James is the deputy editor for Taste of Home.
Carolyn Greenberg shares ways to celebrate Hanukkah, Amy Fuchs talks about how to make the holidays great for older relatives, Sherri Gunn and Anne Tullis share tips on how to find success with breast-feeding, Daisy Dowling talks about negotiating parental leave, Ganel-Lyn Condie teaches us how setting holiday boundaries can improve the season, James Schend shares ideas for great holiday treats.
On this episode of The Work-Life Equation: building the parenting village you need. The secret to successful working parenthood isn't doing more — it's getting more done. And the way to get more done, says our guest Daisy Dowling, is to be fearless about enlisting pinch-hitters. Get Daisy's tips for building your village, and for casting a wide enough net to get the help you need.
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