Archive for May, 2011

Well it’s that time…the moment every new mom secretly dreads: The official six-week, physician endorsed, no-more-excuses, time to get your ass back in gear.
Between early contractions, months of bed-rest and a C-section, I would put my desire to go running somewhere between…actually no, there’s pretty much nothing I wouldn’t rather do than lace up my [...]

Building a career-supporting business for women inevitably leads to the question: What’s your advice for working mothers?  And since I have a philosophy of living my advice before I offer it up, I have been hesitant to chime in on this particularly personal and challenging topic. Well, I officially went back to work last week with [...]

There’s a lot of really unique things about having a baby in NYC (at least in comparison to my native Canada). The thousands of dollars necessary to get your kids into the “right” pre-school (not to mention the competitiveness), the night nurse (necessary for sleep so you can work your ass off to be able [...]

By now it’s an oft told story in my repertoire and serves as an explanation as to why I got into the career business to begin with. To make a long story short, throughout most of my life my mom worked for a paint manufacturer and it sucked the life out of her. [...]