Confessions of a Working Mom

I teach a class where the first module always has students review a video from a man about multi-tasking and how it is a myth and that people can’t do this. I find this very hard to believe. Why because I am a time management guru and I’ll just be honest as women who have regularly written on proven research that women hold close to 70-90% of the household duties and as well as their own work duties. So as a man is preaching to me in this video about management he leaves out some key things like what do you do if you have a child on your lap while trying to do your remote work or who helps with your children while you have to do a conference call cause you can't afford to get a babysitter. There are just many factors in the world we live in and the multi-tasking that has to happen. How many of us women have had a baby in one arm bouncing them while stirring a pot of cooking food and talking on the phone. That is multi-tasking at its best and yes, we are doing it all at the sa

Confessions of a Working Mom Who Survived Homeschool As we all know we had a major shift happen in our lives 10 or is it 12 weeks ago. I am honestly starting to lose track. But this all started when the country started to deal with this Coronavirus. As a full time working mom who runs three companies, a traveling conference, and a college professor, I was suddenly hit with some big issues when I was notified kids were going to be home and we would be homeschooling them. I shuddered at the idea of this. I know most of you are thinking, Julie you have a doctorate degree, you're a college professor, come on, this is a walk in the park. Well, ladies, I kid you not it is not a walk in the park and many of us found that out quickly. I suddenly found myself trying to manage screen time and help teach my son math and my daughter how to write a decent essay while trying to interpret the teacher's lesson. Then I was trying to figure out how to deal with all my work. I am a big o

                                                                                            My Daughter Abby carrying the football at                                                                                                 at a Jen Welter Girls Football camp   I have been getting countless emails after the Superbowl about my thoughts on the Halftime show. I had women who thought it was an amazing performance and other women thought this set us back in the women's movement because of how over-sexualized it was. I spent the last couple days listening and reading, doing my research on these two performers and here is my take on it. When I first heard the performers were Shakira and Jlo I knew the show would not be age-appropriate for my 11-year-old daughter, the music alone and the words talk about many things my innocent daughter would be clueless so I knew I wasn't going to let you her watch the live show. Let me step back for a moment and talk about footbal

I have always been very aware of my body. Growing up, I was growing very fast, so I was taller than most boys, super skinny, and no boobs in sight. Boys didn't think it was cool that I was taller than them and they made fun of me not having boobs. So I was made fun of for being too skinny. Who would think that was possible. As I got into college and played college sports, I was beginning to bulk up and suddenly was a walking muscle which soon the boys didn't like that I was so "buff" (my thoughts how can I win too skinny, to buff) I didn't have some sexy body like on TV. Then as I went on to get married and have kids, my body totally changed; I got hips, boobs the total women's body and I  had a baby stretch marks and more. Once again, since I was not use to having this type of body, I found myself again feeling very insecure about my body. Since I had kids later in life my body wasn't bouncing back like if I was in my 20s I actually had my son