New podcast: Career Mom Radio

Erica Douglas (littlemummy.com) and Chris Brogan (lifehack.org) have worked together to launch a new podcast called Career Mom Radio. Erica says:

Here we have experts in careers, business and entrepreneurship teaming up to help mums (and dads) trying to decide whether to go back to work, stay at home or start a business.

Episode 2 is up now, and it features a number of topics including how to strengthen one's "mom-community," a Mommytrack'd article on staying market-ready while your career's on hold, and how to minimize jetlag.

Tags: Career Mom Radio, Motherhood, Parenting, Working mothers

Comments

[Stu Mark]

Very empowering stuff (and I'm totally cool with using my imagination to transpose "mommy" with "daddy".

This reminds me of that Forbes article by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Noer which you can read on silveraspen's blog here: http://silveraspen.livejournal.com/141315.html

For those who haven't read it yet, it is called "Don't Marry Career Women". Some awful, 19th century-esque claptrap.

Parents need to pay attention to sexism, especially when it is in Forbes.

[Chris Brogan...]

Thanks for the post, Asha. I'm excited about it. Of course, we'd love for you to do a piece on the show to reprise your role as "new media audio celebrity."

We could do an interview, or you could give us 3-5 minutes on how you balance this incredible site (which I read as a dad, Stu : ) ), and your family duties.

[Erica]

Excellent point Stu, nearly everything we discuss can easily be translated for dads too. All dads are very welcome! It would be great if we could get some dads on to discuss how they manage work life balance, and adjusting to fatherhood.

Thanks for the shout-out Asha, I second Chris' invite :)

[Stu Mark]

Erica,

Thanks for the encouragement.

I don't know about other fathers, but for me, I love it, and always have. I am the "mother" in our marriage and my wife is the "father". My wife works 60 hours a week, comes home tired, but helps out with the house anyway. She spends time with the kids, tucks them in, coaches soccer, etc. She's awesome. I stay at home, oversee our kids' education, exercise, basic growth. I do the laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc. I love my gig and took to it like a kid takes to summer vacation.

Before I was a Mommy, I was a professional writer (can't you tell from my long-winded comments?). At some point, my wife and I felt that daycare was not the way we wanted to go. The kids hated it and we felt weird that strangers were raising our children. So I quit my job (I made way less money than my wife) and the rest is history. Sometimes I think about getting back to a writing job, but I'm afraid that my job as a parent would suffer, so I tell myself I can wait.