I'm the mom of a 6 year old daughter. I'm also a woman breadwinner. On a daily basis, I know that I teach my daughter how to say "Please" and "Thank you." I make sure her homework gets done and it's done well. I make sure she can outreadand outperform her peers, that she's independently able …
Continue reading Women Breadwinners: Are We Teaching Our Daughters to Lean In? (Read Time: 4 min.)
Ambitious... Overachiever... Focused... Type A... Super organized... Take charge... Soaring to success... Most women breadwinners can relate to at least one of the above descriptions. It's the world of women who take on the role of breadwinner. They are responsible for a lot of the major decisions, carry the weight of financially providing for the …
"Life happens..." It's cliche but true. Plan all you want. Make up every To-Do list possible but the best laid plans are laid to rest. Don't get me wrong. Planning in life is key. It's the way you take the temperature of your life (Am I closer to where I want to be? Is this …
Continue reading When Life Storms Hit, Do You Bend or Break? (Read Time: 3 min.)
When more is asked of you than you can give, how do you respond? When you feel like you're burning the candle at both ends and quickly losing steam, what do you do? When you hear your body screaming for rest but you push it to keep going, what is usually the outcome? When I …
Have you ever found yourself in a situation, circumstance, or experience that you absolutely did not want, wishing you could be in any other circumstance but THIS, feeling angry, frustrated, bitter and stuck because the hand life dealt you is not the hand you expected to receive? Have you ever found yourself in a place …
Continue reading Acceptance or Denial? 5 Ways to Cooperate with the Universe (Read Time: 3 min.)
Over the next 3 posts, I'm going to dive into some woman breadwinner psychology, namely the psychology of self-confidence. When a woman leads her life from a place of overachievement, perfectionism, and meticulous attention to follow through and performance, it can seem like this woman has AMAZING levels of self esteem and self confidence. To …
Continue reading What Self Doubt REALLY Means (Read Time: 4 min.)
I'm a collector of books, a lover of Barnes and Noble and what I found, in the last few years, is that I was much better at buying books than reading them. So... I decided, in this new year of 2013, to read 1 book a week. Up first is "The Road Less Traveled" by …
Continue reading What if your marriage map is wrong? (Read Time: 3 min.)
Women breadwinners do A LOT. They work hard at work and they work hard at home. No matter how the roles and responsibilities are split, there's always some level of guilt that comes along with being away from your spouse and children for extended hours due to work. But guilt is a useless and wasted emotion because …
Stress and sex don't go together... As a woman breadwinner, when you find yourself thinking more about the piled up dirty laundry than you do about dirty talk with your spouse, there's a problem. However, when there's only 24 hours in a day and you feel responsible for more than you can carry, one of …
My husband is not the handy man type. He wants nothing to do with a hammer, nails and the last place you'll ever find him in is Auto Zone or Home Depot. No, he prefers all things tech, the internet and visiting the Hugo Boss store... Nonetheless, when I look a little deeper, what I …
Continue reading Women Breadwinners… Did you marry your father… or your mother? (Read Time: 3 min.)
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