34: Welcome Our New Parents at Work Co-Host!

In this episode of Parents at Work, Lori welcomes to the podcast her husband and new co-host, Jason Levin, MBA. Jason is the founder of Ready Set Launch, LLC where he helps organizations, professional associations, executives and lawyers with career transition and business development needs through outplacement, individual coaching, training and webinars. Jason comes on as a guest to share his own experience with parenting (during a pandemic!) while also holding down a job and working for himself in his own business. 

Jason shares some empowering and actionable tips on everything from how to thrive at working from home with kids in the house, to how you can get your employer to be more accommodating of your needs as a working parent, and so much more. Tune in for a jam-packed 20-minute episode.

Show Highlights

• Jason’s personal working parent journey: Working for someone and also going out on his own while being a parent (01:47)
• Setting clear goals on what you need to get done and how working for yourself goes back to sales (03:45)
• Concentrating on work when working from home especially during the pandemic (06:08)
• The Wall: How he created space for himself so he could focus more on achieving his work goals (08:30)
• The number one career tip for working parents as they ease back into the post Covid-19 vaccine world (09:50)
• How to recenter yourself throughout the day to be consistently focused (10:54)
• Navigating a world where the industry you worked for or your career was turned on its head by the Covid-19 pandemic (12:11)
• How to approach and negotiate with your employer to keep you while enabling you to parent better (18:07)

 

Links and Resources

• To Sell is Human By Daniel Pink
• [e-mail]
• Jason's Website
• Jason on Linkedin
• Lori's Website
• Lori on Linkedin