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Greetings from Chaton's World in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! My days often start with laundry, early-morning emails, and making my kids a hot breakfast. They often end with late-night homework checks, making Instagram reels, and appearing on Celebrity Court of Public Opinion. Somewhere in between, I’m navigating boardrooms, working towards deadlines, and immersed in the good, bad, and ugly chaos of motherhood and household management. As a working mom of three and a professional carving out space in corporate environments, I share my journey of balancing leadership with loving my family, and I sprinkle it with self-care tips. Here, you’ll find honest reflections, hard-earned lessons, and practical strategies for creating an authentic life that you enjoy. If you’re trying to do it all without losing yourself in the process, you have found your sister in the struggle!  Continue reading to discover some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world.
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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, “Forget ‘Lean In’: Here’s How to Define Your Success as a Working Mother” discussing an 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. This piece had some good points. Check it out!


  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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