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Work Life Stories: Broadway, Baby (Part 1)

Erik Orton is a playwright, composer and producer by day, and a presentations whiz for a large investment bank by night.  Erik’s story is the journey of an integrated life and what that means to him.  From high school, he was interested in theatre and music, pursuing a Bachelors in Media Music (film scoring, studio […]

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Tear Down That Wall?

In the furor over the NYT Mommy Blogger’s piece over the weekend (which I am not getting into as others have done it better), I noticed a comment (amongst the hundreds of comments across one of the at least 12 follow-ups I’ve read in the past couple of days).  I can’t quote it, because I […]

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Work Life Stories: Flex in High Finance? An Unusual On-Ramp Tale

The big bad world of Wall St high finance is not the most conducive to mothering and flexible work options.  Here’s a unique story of just what is possible when you dare to ask.  After her MBA, Sariah Toronto spent several years with Citibank and then moved on to another major financial institution for 18 […]

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Work Life Stories: When the Dream Turns 180º

Working from home is not as easy as it sounds.  It is one thing when you’re self-employed and an entirely different proposition when you’re with a company that works hard and plays hard – with long hours, expecting face time and trying to create a culture as well as run a profitable business. Lindsay Hepworth […]

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Work Life Stories: The Mother of Invention

Meet Design Mom, Gabrielle Blair, mother of five, with her sixth child on the way.   She is Co-founder of www.kirtsy.com, “Digg for Chicks” says Mashable, and her Design Mom blog has been named a “Top Motherhood Blog” by the Wall Street Journal. Gabrielle has mothered full-time, run various businesses, worked full time, worked part-time.  Warm, […]

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Work Life Stories: A New Kind of Dad

Still a statistically small group, stay-at-home-dads are becoming more prevalent and represent a unique corner of the work life balance milieu.  I asked Stephen de las Heras, one of my daddy friends who is parenting and balancing a freelance photography career, if he would share his story. “I’d clawed my way up through the publishing […]

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Work Life Stories: Books and Babies

The first in my series of work life stories is representative of a relatively new piece of the economic puzzle – mothers who work from home, often at night or in the early mornings and make a decent financial contribution in the process.  It’s a hybrid approach – entrepreneurial, but with low costs of entry […]

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Rocking the House of Work

There is something powerful when people gather around a table.  In the midst of too many other to-dos to mention this week, I took several hours and went to lunch with an amazing group of work+life commentators and implementers. Plain and simple, the conversation rocked the house. From the founder of the work+life research movement […]

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So Let’s Build a New House

A Personal Blueprint for Workplace Renewal Constructed with: – capitalism, with a healthy dose of government vigilance and oversight. – corporate profits, giving people the opportunity to earn to the highest of their desire and capacity in innovative, creative free markets with the caveat of ethical, law-abiding behavior. – protective legislation to provide care where […]

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The House of Work is a Tear Down

“When we talk about work-life issues, and getting policies in place to facilitate the reality of parenting, care-giving or just plain old life, I fear we’re providing a quick coat of paint and new curtains for a house that’s really a tear down… The model is broken. We have to start over.” This was my […]

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