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Working moms everywhere will hear themselves in the voices of Erin and Kristin, creators and hosts of Manic Mommies, the weekly podcast for moms trying to do it all! What started on a whim one Saturday morning has quickly become a wildly popular online destination for women balancing deadlines, diaper duty, and day care. Lighthearted and funny, Manic Mommies is a ...

As a psychologist and author who specializes in stress management, I regularly work with high-achieving women, helping them understand and cope with the unique stressors in their lives. By far, one of the hottest topics for today’s high-achieving women is work-life balance. Recently, however, I’ve been hearing from more and more women who are struggling with the whole work/life balance thing ...

First, you need to come up with a business plan. It doesn’t need to be anything that is complicated. It can be just a short paragraph about what you want to accomplish in your home business. Second, you need to write your goals down. Always write them down, don’t try and remember them. You will need to write down what you ...

Military husbands are staying home with the kids while the moms are off fighting. When you picture a military couple, one going off to fight a war, and the other taking on the role of the stay-at-home parent, society typically envisions the man off in battle and the woman home with the children. But with nearly 20 percent of the Air ...

Admit it. Who among us wasn’t psyched when we first heard Michelle Obama commit to make work/life balance issues a national priority? I mean, who couldn’t benefit from a little more national attention on achieving balance in our insanely hectic and overscheduled lives? So after the inauguration, I gave her a few weeks to get settled into her new home on ...

Corporate cutbacks? Not where it matters to working families, say our winners. Read about premier benefits that make life manageable.

Ahhh! The joys of summer break. I for one can’t wait for lazy days on the beach, cold lemonade on the porch mixed with long nights and even longer mornings sleeping in. Life doesn’t get much better than that. If any of you out there are anything like me you can’t wait for the end of the school year. The idea ...

It happens:  You wake up on the wrong side of the bed.  At times, negative statements might fly out of your mouth, such as "I don't feel like going to work today."  Maybe you come home in a grumpy mood, and gripe about your day to your family. While it is natural to vent, have you ever considered the effect it ...

It's always on the day you "can't afford to miss..."  Your child emerges from bed with some maladious symptom, like a rash.  He may be acting fine, but even if you know it's because he's having an allergic reaction to something he ate last night, you would be tarred and feathered if you tried to drop him off at daycare!   ...

Being stressed out is no fun. Everything seems larger than life when we fall victim to this most common human experience. We become frantic beings who forget completely how to relax. One of the first ways to take control over this wild best before it controls us is to know what the symptoms are of being stressed, and then do something ...

Congratulations! You’re pregnant! Now what? Be happy. For thousands of women, conceiving can be time consuming and long process. If you are one of the lucky ones to get pregnant right away, even better… maybe. Hopefully, while you were trying to conceive you put some thought into how being pregnant would effect your career and life in general. If you didn’t, ...

Do you work from home part-time? I am not talking about the mom who works part-time somewhere to fulfill a part-time role. I am talking about a mom who stays at home and works part-time to fulfill part of a full-time role for next to no pay so she can fill some weird void. I have been conversing with a gentleman ...

When I was young and it was summer, I used to go with my mom to work on a regular basis. She worked at a recreation center where I would sit at an extra desk, draw pictures, and once in a while venture down the hall to watch the girls do flip-flops on the balance beam in gymnastics class. Later, when ...

Woman is ready for a job. Woman is highly qualified. Woman has dress clothes for business environment. Woman has transportation to get to job. But wait: Woman is also a mother. Woman has dilemma. Challenges are presented when a mother chooses to go to work. Most households require the woman to work. If she is a single mom, she has to ...

At the behest of his wife, my husband has been pursuing a different employer as his current position, while solid and benefit laden, offers no room for advancement and little job satisfaction. It is one of those jobs that his father's generation would have envied. In fact, his father is pretty incensed that he would like to leave. Problem is, my ...

I am trying to teach myself a valuable lesson... learning to “clock out.” As an entrepreneur, I am so conditioned to working twenty-four-seven, I have trouble shutting off—hence, having my computer with me at the hospital when I was giving birth to my son Jackson last May. I have to sometimes remind myself that I changed professions (from relocation consultant to ...

Making the decision to say home with your children and forgo a career is a big decision for any woman. Especially for women who have previously enjoyed a satisfying career or had always planned to work outside the home. The decision to re-enter the workforce is even bigger and more ominous. The first few years of staying home after the birth ...

Dubbed the “commander in sheath” by Vanity Fair and the “first lady of fashion” by ABC News, it’s little wonder why her wardrobe keeps us buzzing. But beyond her shoes and bags, what I hope more people will highlight is how helpful it is to have a new role model for a generation of mothers trying to figure out how to ...

In response to the current economy, psychotherapist and Momlogic.com parenting expert Jill Spivack created a recession survival guide to help women develop coping strategies that include how to reduce costs, minimize stress and maintain healthy relationships.

Hi, Excelle community! I am thrilled to introduce myself to all of you. I thought I’d first come clean about something. While I am honored to be a featured writer, I am sort of in shock about it. You see, I went through college having only written one — ok maybe two — term papers. I was an Engineering major. We ...