360: Advice for Working Moms from Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Joann Lublin
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
A longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and mother compares two generations of women - boomers and GenXers - to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 360. |
| 0:12.9 | My publisher insisted that every chapter of the book start out with a personal story about what it had been like for me to be a working mom |
| 0:22.5 | and a hard driving journalist. That meant I had to essentially open the kimono and admit some of my |
| 0:28.7 | shortcomings. Hello to you. My name is Jeff Brown and you have found the read to lead podcast, |
| 0:35.1 | a show I created to help you glean the key insights and main ideas from |
| 0:39.2 | today's business books, as well as helping you in deciding which books you should be paying |
| 0:43.7 | attention to. We cover topics as varied as personal and professional development, leadership, |
| 0:48.8 | productivity, career, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, and a lot more. And today, that a lot more includes a chat with |
| 0:55.8 | Joanne Lublin. We're going to talk about her brand new book called Power Moms, How Executive |
| 1:00.4 | Mothers Navigate Work and Life. Now, whether or not you're a mom who needs to navigate |
| 1:05.3 | work and life, chances are there's one you care about in your life. So if nothing else, listen with that mother in mind. |
| 1:12.8 | And I should also note that Joanne covers plenty of ground that's useful and informative |
| 1:17.4 | regardless of your station in life. |
| 1:19.9 | I'll ask her why she believes in what she calls work-life sway over work-life balance. |
| 1:25.2 | Examples of companies who have stepped up with regard to working moms |
| 1:29.0 | and dads, not so obvious parenting skills that can be an asset to leaders, and lots more. |
| 1:35.8 | After eight years of interviewing some of the world's most successful and inspiring authors, |
| 1:40.9 | I finally got around to writing a book, co-authored with my friend Jesse Wisniewski, |
| 1:45.0 | and I really hope you'll consider picking it up. You can actually pre-order it right now on Amazon. |
| 1:50.0 | Just go to read-to-lead podcast.com slash book or search read-to-lead at Amazon.com. |
| 1:57.3 | One of the endorsements we received from the book comes from four-time read-to-lead podcast guest and soon-to-be fifth-time podcast guest John Acuff, who says, I might be biased because I'm a writer, but I think books are the cheapest, easiest way to radically change your life. In this book, Jeff and Jesse take that idea and supercharge it with actionable |
| 2:19.1 | steps you can begin using to improve your career instantly. Jesse and I feel strongly about |
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