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The Broad Experience

Episode 142: Working Daughters: Your Career + Parent-care

The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0592 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

More and more working women are taking care of an ill or aging parent. And while there's plenty of discussion about working mothers and what can be done to support them, there's almost none about working daughters. This episode aims to change that. In it we meet three women who've become caregivers. Liz O'Donnell is the founder of online community Working Daughter; Maria Toropova is part of that community and was just 29 when her mother got sick; and Kate Schutt let her music career slide as she cared for her mother during the last years of her life.

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0:27.4

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0:33.8

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0:35.0

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0:35.9

But for now, just relax.

0:37.8

Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

0:56.3

This time, when career and caring clash, caring for a parent, that is. It seemed inevitable that

1:04.4

every time I flew to San Francisco where my company was headquartered, something would come up.

1:10.2

The minute I'd touch down in San Francisco, I'd have five voicemails from the nurse at the

1:14.9

assisted living.

1:16.3

I just remember, like, taking her to one doctor, and one doctor's appointment took five

1:21.0

hours, and I was thinking, I was like, how am I ever going to do this as one person?

1:24.7

Because she needs to go to 10 doctors.

1:27.4

So how do you do that and still

1:29.5

balance your career or progress in your career? It was so all-encompassing and I'd see my guitar

1:36.8

in the corner of the room or I'd see my friends and peers, the people I make music with

1:43.0

doing their lives, you know, a CD released music with, doing their lives.

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