by Suzanne Brown | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
As the final blog of the month in a series devoted to love and friendship, I want to talk about self-love as a busy, working mom. The ideas of self-love, self-care, and the need for grace came up in the more than 110 interviews I did with professional part-time...
by Suzanne Brown | Dec 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
I read a blog by Sasha Gray at Lipstick, Margaritas and Hairspray, which was titled “My Christmas wish for you.” She wrote it for a friend, who was having a hard time. Her blog inspired me to post something to my own tribe about my wish for you for 2017. The end of...
by Suzanne Brown | Dec 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s days before Christmas. Maybe you can take the days off. Maybe you’re still working the next few days and need kids to be entertained. It might be a fun time or you might not know what to do because it’s too cold out and you’re indoors, trying to keep the kids...
by Suzanne Brown | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
I met Carrie Sharpe in a Facebook group several months ago. She is supportive and always has great advice for moms. She wrote a blog in late summer about focusing on what really matters, which resonated with me. So I asked her to write a guest blog for this group...
by Suzanne Brown | Dec 7, 2016 | family-travel, Uncategorized
I shared last week about our own intentions for the holidays and got several questions from people about how to shift to an intentional way of thinking. This week I’m sharing how we made this shift for the holidays and the rest of the year. What an Intention is Not An...
by Suzanne Brown | Nov 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Writing a book isn’t easy. I’m not saying that so that I get pats on the back. I’m being honest. If you want to write a book, it takes effort. Interviewing more than 100 women to get the research for the book took me three and a half years. That is a lot of time....
by Suzanne Brown | Nov 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s holiday time and you want to be with family. And the office has emailed, called or texted 5 times and you’ve only be out of the office 2 days. Can’t they figure it out on their own? Your client keeps trying to contact you and your out of office is turned on. Is...
by Suzanne Brown | Nov 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
I loved Yvonne Marcus’ words about gratitude in a blog she wrote several weeks ago and reached out to her to do a guest blog on Mompowerment. See her thoughts on integrating a gratitude practice into your life. Hello lovely ladies of Mompowerment! I’m so...
by Suzanne Brown | Oct 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m a busy working mom and I want to have fun with my kids, especially on those occasions when I can be extra playful. Halloween is one of those moments in the year. If you’re in the same boat, you could go to Pinterest and see all sorts of options. Since...
by Suzanne Brown | Oct 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
After interviewing more than 110 professional part-time working moms and hearing their stories and advice, I noticed there are some key questions and steps that need to happen to transition from full-time to part-time work. Here are the top 5 from those interviews to...