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Parents At Work

A podcast for working parents presented by Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, founder of Mindful Return, and Jason Levin, MBA, founder of Ready Set Launch, exploring work-life integration in all different roles, industries, adn professions. Techniques for parents in dealing with everything from sleep deprivation and managing work-life issues, to help you excel at work while also raising your family.
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Sep 4, 2018

Today, our guest is a multi-talented author and attorney, Lori Mihalich-Levin. Lori also has a very active blog and website platform, called Mindful Return, for parents who are returning to the workforce after having children. If you are returning back to work after maternity/paternity leave, Lori created a four-week program to help. Now, employers are also using this program to help!

About Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD: Lori believes in empowering new working parents.  She is the founder of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, and creator of the Mindful Return Maternity Leave E-Course.  She is mama to two beautiful red-headed boys (ages 5 and 7), is a contributing author at Well Rounded NY and Fairygodboss, is the Maternity Leave Expert at Motherly, and is a partner in the health care practice at Dentons US LLP.

 

Show Highlights:

  • Three major hats Lori wears: Being a partner at a law firm, being a mom & running her program
  • How Mindful Return was born
  • Creating that supportive parent community at your workplace is a universal challenge
  • Tools and community for helping return to work after maternity/paternity leave
  • The four-week course to guide parents
  • Alumni group joining the Facebook group for support
  • Retreats coming soon
  • Employers are now offering this program as a retention tool 
  • Relating to one another, and how universal these problems really are
  • Growing trends on dads taking paternity leave
  • Lori’s own parenting story of going back to work
  • Transitioning back to work is not a one-day thing; it is ongoing
  • Books Lori recommends for this transition besides her own book
  • Technology that helps going back to work

Resources:

Mindful Return Website

Mindful Return Facebook

Mindful Return Twitter

Book “Back to work after Baby” Available on Amazon

Mar 2, 2018

Can parenting and entrepreneurship go hand in hand? Many working parents believe the myth that you either have to sacrifice home life or business success—you cannot have both. My guest, Dan Kuschell, is here to tell you that this simply isn’t true! Dan is a serial entrepreneur with 12 successful businesses to his name. He delights in training budding business owners to use strategies to get more clients and develop a business that works for them. Dan’s success has been great, but he considers his family the greatest blessing of all. His path has always been inherently tied to his wife and children, and today Dan is going to show you how he does it. 

After a severe health scare, Dan knew he needed to make some changes. His busy lifestyle included many sleepless nights and poor choices that built up to the breaking point. Luckily, Dan believed in the power of coaching, and he sought the help he needed to balance and repurpose his life. Dan thinks that there are three questions every working parent needs to ask themselves. What do you want? Who are you? What do you stand for? Dan has managed to not just balance, but integrate his parenting into his businesses. He prioritizes time with his children and makes business decisions with the family in mind. It’s all about his mindset from the outset, and you can get that mindset too! Listen this week to start making some changes in your own life. 

Show Highlights:

  • Dan has helped 12 different startups grow and get “unstuck.” 
  • What being a parent has taught Dan about running businesses. 
  • Be grateful for the joys that being a working parent can give you. 
  • Mindset should be our focus. 
  • The 3 big fears we need to overcome. 
  • Integrate, rather than try to balance between work and life. 
  • Dan learned from burnout that he needed to change some bad habits. 
  • Get a coach! 
  • The three questions you should ask yourself to change your life. 
  • Dan has resources available to you who might be ready to start a business. 
  • Why Marketing is like football. 
  • A piece of technology that Dan would recommend for making life a little easier. 
  • The books that Dan uses to bring some balance to his life. 

 

Resources:

Dan’s Website 

Dan on Facebook

Dan's Recommended Tool: Headspace Meditation App

Dan's Recommended Books:

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen 

The Coaching Habit 

Never Split the Difference

Jan 16, 2018

Fatherhood is one of life’s greatest responsibilities, and yet so many of us feel completely unequipped for the role. Many first time and long time dads find it difficult to engage with their children, or otherwise feel overwhelmed with the pressures of work. How can we begin to redefine Fatherhood, and start building up intentional relationships with our kids? Luckily, we have places like Daddy Saturday to turn to. I’m talking to Justin Batt, Chief Daddy at Daddy Saturday, about how he has transformed his relationship with his kids, even as a working parent. 

 

Daddy Saturday is a website dedicated to building resources and communities for fathers. It started when Justin’s oldest daughter was born, and he found himself being the sole caregiver on Saturdays while Mom was at work. These Saturdays with his kids became precious as he intentionally planned ways to have quality time, rather than simply checking out on his phone or becoming preoccupied with work. Now, he and his children are having grand adventures and encouraging people from across the world to do the same. 

 

Justin is going to share all of his tips for Dads who want to transform their relationships with their kids. While it does require a mindset shift and a commitment to put the phone down, building intentional relationships with kids is incredibly easy. Fatherlessness is currently in a state of crisis, but Dads like Justin are trying to take back Saturday and encourage Dads to engage and take ownership of their responsibility. Yes, life and technology have their pressures and influences, but Justin is going to show us how easily we can build habits that will impact our children for a lifetime.

 

More in this episode: 

•    Being intentional and engaging with his kids on a Saturday became a community phenomenon. 

•    How Justin is encouraging other dads to change how they approach their weekends with kids. 

•    Fatherhood is a huge responsibility, but it’s also an opportunity. 

•    Be there for your kids during breakfast, or any other rallying point. 

•    Questions you can use to engage your kids. 

•    Why experiencing failure as kids can make strong adults. 

•    Justin tells the story of how he and his wife became business partners and life partners. 

•    Advice for Dads who want to start being more intentional. 

•    What is launching next for Justin and Daddy Saturday? 

•    A little bit of planning makes a world of difference. 

•    How to engage your kids as they get older. 

•    Focus on peak performance in our parenting, not just our career or our health. 

•    Learn all the nuts and bolts of how Justin runs Daddy Saturday. 

•    Sometimes, low-tech is best.

 

Links 

Daddy Saturday

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSppCEe24NP3sJEVqaQq_DA

 

The Modern Dad’s Dilemma 

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