Joann Lublin, POWER MOMS: HOW EXECUTIVE MOTHERS NAVIGATE WORK AND LIFE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Joann Lublin dismisses the myth of work-life balance and makes a case instead for “work-life sway.” She shares with Zibby the biggest challenges she overcame as a top editor at the Wall Street Journal, and her forecast for the future of the female workforce.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:40.1	Joanne Lublin is the author of Power Moms, how executive mothers navigate work and life. She is the former management news editor
0:45.4	of the Wall Street Journal and created its first career advice column, which she wrote until May
0:50.3	of 2020. Joanne shared the journal's 2003 Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate
0:55.5	scandals. In 2018, she won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in
1:00.7	business journalism. Joanne is the author of two books about female business leaders. Her first
1:05.5	popular leadership book, earning it, hard won lessons from trailblazing women at the top of the
1:10.4	business world, offers insights from 52 from trailblazing women at the top of the business world,
1:11.4	offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about obstacles they overcame. And her latest,
1:16.8	of course, is Power Moms. Welcome, Joanne. Thanks so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books.
1:21.9	Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure. And your book was fantastic. Power Moms,
1:27.4	how executive mothers navigate work and life. This was awesome. And by the way, the subtitle does not reflect that it's not only moms of one generation, but also the adult children of the next generation, which is so genius to contrast and compare. So I loved that. In fact, the book is about three different
1:45.5	generations, if you think about it, because I interviewed 111 women altogether, of whom 86 were
1:53.2	women who had children and became executives from two generations, my generation, the boomers,
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