“Working” and “Parent” – like “Pumpkin Spice” and “Latte”

Happy first week of Fall! Last week, we celebrated National Working Parents Day, and it was such a treat to see the response!  It’s not often that we pause and think about how our various roles and identities can complement one another – more often we think about them in discrete buckets, separate lives and […]

Happy National Working Parent’s Day!

Friday, September 16 is National Working Parents Day! For the team at Josie, this is kind of our Thanksgiving – a perfect opportunity to pay our respects and reflect on how far things have come in recent years. We can imagine there may be some out there who are wondering, do working parents really need […]

What’s your vision for yourself as a working parent?

(hot tip: it can be more than just “survive.”) I worked in strategy consulting for almost 15 years.  There were so many things I loved about it, but my favorite part was getting to help others put structure around complex problems and craft the right messaging to garner support for their plans.  When I told […]

I’m into transitions these days…

And I don’t just mean the return of pumpkin spice lattes (even though I am incredibly excited about that). I’ve been thinking a lot about transitions lately.  Maybe it’s experiencing the first hints of Fall, children walking to school outside my window, or the pumpkins outside my local grocery store (seriously? They seem to appear […]