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From Boardroom to Baby provides emotional encouragement and practical guidance for career women who are opting out of the workforce to stay home with their children. A recent Gallup poll concluded that stay-at-home moms were significantly less likely than working moms to consider their lives "thriving" and experienced higher rates of depression. Even so, millions of mothers are choosing to put their careers on hold and stay home with their children....
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Starting a business can be a challenge when you're already juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life. Where do your entrepreneurial dreams fit into the equation? How do you find the time to pursue them?Marisa Volpe Lonic, mom of four and former corporate executive turned entrepreneur, shares practical tips and advice on turning your side hustle into your main hustle, vulnerable stories of the entrepreneurial journey, and the...
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How can mothers bridge the gap between the worlds of "mom" and "career woman" to find work-life balance? By working part-time. This informative guide tells both stay-at-home and full-time working mothers how they can reengage or redefine their careers while still having time to care for their children. The author-a mother and a former business executive, entrepreneur, and self-employed writer-provides all the information moms need to find the ideal...
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For many women in their 20's and 30's, the greatest professional hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still subject to a "parenting penalty" and high-profile conflicts between parenting and the workplace are all over the news: from...
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Moms are the greatest entrepreneurs in the world and raising the next generation of entrepreneurial women doesn't happen by accident. Our daughters grow into the conversations we have around them. What kinds of conversations can we have so they grow into the best versions of themselves?
In these pages, you'll learn the formula of MAGIC which helps mothers create lives they love while leading their daughters to live powerfully:
• M (Model): How...
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When her son is diagnosed with autism, a mother loses her grip on reality in this hilarious and heartfelt debut novel about love and family.
What if Emma isn't the person she thought she was?
Her younger son has just been diagnosed with autism.
She's accidentally quit her job.
The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham.
She's pretty sure that she is going to have an affair with a hot new dad at the school.
The only...
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Summary of Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine Includes Analysis
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Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine is a finance guide that encourages women to generate greater income streams through creative, entrepreneurial business ideas. It lays out ways for women, especially those who have left the workforce or are interested in balancing work with family, to discover business ideas, create and implement an action plan, network with other entrepreneurs...
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Within Contribute!, women learn how to build a successful business while staying home with their kids.
In Contribute!, Tatiana Amico, a successful entrepreneur and mom of two, shares her secrets on how to build a successful business that supports one's family, all while being there for their kids' milestones. Within Contribute!, she shows women how to:
• Figure out what kind of business to start
• Identify the reasons why they haven't already...
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In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing-the first to engineer elegance in comfort. When Louise Frankfurt Gartner joined the team, the sisters' combined engineering, business, and PR genius made Page Boy the foremost maternity-clothing manufacturer in the United States. Dressing entertainment icons such as Loretta Young, Elizabeth...
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How will you balance the roles of business owner and mother? Would you like wisdom from women who've been there?
Here's something you already know. When you become a mother, you want flexibility. You want to be there for your baby, and you want results in your business. You want to make good money, and to make a difference.
All over the globe, women are taking control by starting their own businesses, businesses that (they hope) will grow around...
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There exist new and creative ways to successfully cushion lives surrounded by violence. There are ways to speak, to act and to focus in order to promote positive energy flow and to enjoy a healthier and less troubled post-trauma life. A learned behavior pattern, "Tunnel Vision" is utilized to reduce the likelihood of the perpetuation of trauma. Self-empowerment, brought about by consistent nurturing and loving support backed with a disciplined imagination...
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Becoming a leader in the "bro culture" of technology is a challenge for any capable woman-but it can be even more treacherous for mothers. Few women understand this better than Emilia M. D'Anzica and Sabina M. Pons, the respective founder and principal consultant at the management consulting firm Growth Molecules.
Upon comparing stories about raising children while working in tech, D'Anzica and Pons wondered: what would it take for their male-dominated...
13) Time Management for Women: Simple Productivity Strategies to Get More Stuff Done in Less Time for Wo
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If you feel like there's not enough time to do all the tasks and chores and would like to discover how to control more of your time for increased productivity and less effort, keep reading...Did you know: According to Hive, even though women finish more work, they are given 55% more tasks than men An article on Forbes.com states that forty-nine percent of employed women in the U.S., including 42% of working moms, who report that they are their family's...
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At a time when so many are looking to reset their lives, Rebalance explores what it takes to truly thrive full-circle: as purpose-driven leaders, parents, partners, and citizens. With insight and humor, Rebalance tackles the perennial question of working women (and men) everywhere: Is it possible to do it all well or does something have to give? The authors draw on a decade of no-holds-barred conversations with an ambitious group of women striving...
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Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others-give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about...
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Manage the competing demands of working motherhood.
As a working mother you often draw the short straw. You carry most of the burden of caregiving and household chores-and your career suffers because of it. Bosses and coworkers assume that since you're focused on your family, you don't prioritize work. But choosing your job over your kids' extracurricular and school commitments means letting down the people you love most.
Advice for Working Moms can...
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Un livre pratique qui vous donnera tous les conseils à suivre afin d'enfin oser vous lancer dans la grande aventure qu'est entreprendre tout en étant...maman!
La création d'entreprises est longtemps restée l'apanage des hommes. Mais depuis quelques décennies, les choses changent: en 2018, quatre entrepreneurs français sur dix étaient des femmes! Celles-ci sont de plus en plus nombreuses à concilier leurs vies personnelle et professionnelle,...
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Fertile Imagination is the jet engine you need to go after what you really, really want.
You can be a great mom without giving up, shrinking, or hiding your dreams. There's flexibility in how you pursue anything—your role, your lifestyle, and your personal and professional goals. The limitations on dreams you chase are waiting to be shattered. It's time to see and seize what's beyond your gaze. Let's bridge your childhood daydreams with your grown-up...
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This book gives practical tips and advice to all parents, but especially working moms, about how to juggle the many roles we have in life and feel good about our success as a parent. Each chapter ends with exercises designed to help ensure that the reader can put these tips to use, as well as "Sanity Savers" - key ideas from each chapter.
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Recounts inspiring stories from women who have channeled their passions into money-making products and services, from designer onesies to gluten-freecookies, this book strips away the mystery of launching a business and unlocks a fast, easy formula. It simplifies the start-up process and shares: tips and techniques for honing a concept, and more.
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