One Secret to a Working Mom Success: Make Family Events More Enjoyable With Friends

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Better Together: Why Inviting Another Family Makes Activities More Fun #FamilyFun Sometimes family activities can feel like another item on the to-do list. However, doing those activities with another family makes them more fun! Whether it’s a trip to an amusement park , a visit to the local pool , or trip to a pumpkin patch , including another family can multiply the fun in amazing ways. One of my favorite moms to collaborate with is my friend, Ayana Ledford who's pictured above with her daughter Sahar. We have done all of the things listed as seemingly random examples above and here is how including her and her daughter (and sometimes her son too) has made the events more fun. On the date above, Ayana almost left the venue because parking was a nightmare. That said, she hung in there and we would up having a great time!
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Four Personal Practices to Help Working Moms Find Work Life Integration

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This blog does two things. It shares my journey as a working mom and provides my sisters in the struggle with tips about how to better manage their responsibilities as working moms and how to lead better, more productive, and more satisfying lives. 

Recently, I read an inspiring article, “How to Succeed as a Working Mom? Forget Balance (and Do This Instead)” by from Melissa McDevitt Vice President in Diversity & Inclusion at Capital One discussing her own approach to succeeding at the working mom game.
She says that she doesn’t strive for balance. Instead, she has created a life that incorporates her responsibilities as a mother and an executive. It is by living this integrated life that she has achieved satisfaction.

As I tell my clients, and those in the audience during presentations, work/life balance is a fiction. You have one life with many components. It is your responsibility to figure out how to make them all work together. Melissa’s piece had some good points. Check it out!

Four Personal Practices to Work/Life Integration from Melissa McDevitt 


  1. Make trade-offs: dropping my preschooler off at school once a week or taking that 5:30 p.m. call from the car.
  2. Declare priorities: getting home for dinner knowing there will be a little late night email.
  3. Ask for help: thank goodness for meal delivery services and handyman companies.
  4. Breathe: which works for my toddler and it works for me too!

To read the article in Working Mothers Magazine, click here. 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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