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Jan 4, 2021

A Little Bit of Kindness Goes A Long Way

Time does flies. Once day you wake up and you realized the days are long and the years are short. I have known my friend, Nancy, for over 25 years. We met in college as she was traveling around the world and I was a shy girl from NYC. I…

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Kindness From A Dear Friend
Kindness From A Dear Friend

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Oct 29, 2020

Strength in Numbers: Make Your Family Part of Your Team

You’ve assembled a crack team for your kids — now see how much your kids can help you. — Part six in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Welcome to the sixth and final installment of Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, a series full of helpful suggestions aimed at showing professional women how they can balance career and motherhood. How…

Working Moms

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Strength in Numbers: Make Your Family Part of Your Team
Strength in Numbers: Make Your Family Part of Your Team
Working Moms

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Oct 24, 2020

The Power of Two — A Working Mom’s Partner

The perfect partner makes all the difference — even when they’re not perfect — Part five in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Tonight, my husband came home exhausted and dragging from a hard day at work. He dropped off his briefcase — which in his case is a backpack — and went straight into the…

Working Moms

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The Power of Two — A Working Mom’s Partner
The Power of Two — A Working Mom’s Partner
Working Moms

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Oct 22, 2020

Working Moms Can’t Do It Alone: Teamwork Is Everything

Here’s how to build your own personal support team for yourself and your child. — Part four in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Teamwork. That’s the key to being a working mom. Most of the world still depends on an extended family to raise children; in fact, some areas still turn out in droves to raise…

Working Moms

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Working Moms Can’t Do It Alone: Teamwork Is Everything
Working Moms Can’t Do It Alone: Teamwork Is Everything
Working Moms

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Oct 17, 2020

It’s Not Just Your Job — Your Life is Scalable Too.

When starting a family, you may find equal fulfillment in a less demanding career. — Part three in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Flashback: 1987, the film Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton. A Manhattanite advertising executive nicknamed the “Tiger Lady” inherits a baby, is pushed out of her job, buys a farm in Vermont, and founds…

Working Moms

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It’s Not Just Your Job — Your Life is Scalable Too.
It’s Not Just Your Job — Your Life is Scalable Too.
Working Moms

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Oct 15, 2020

Want to Be a Working Mom? Pick the Right Job.

These days, working moms have career options and considerations our mothers only dreamed of. — Part two in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Pick the right job? Sounds silly, right? After all, your career is your career. But it’s no secret that some jobs are more family friendly. You may continue your upward trajectory in the…

Working Moms

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Want to Be a Working Mom? Pick the Right Job.
Want to Be a Working Mom? Pick the Right Job.
Working Moms

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Oct 10, 2020

So, You’ve Decided to Have It All

Think you can’t manage career and children? Think again. — Part one in a six-part series, Creative Parenting for the Working Mom, from Reinventing the Working Mom® Having it all. It’s become a catchall, a cliché. It’s a criticism (“She left the meeting early; I guess that’s what they mean by ‘having it all.’”) It’s well-meaning, if patronizing advice. (“Just…

Working Moms

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So, You’ve Decided to Have It All
So, You’ve Decided to Have It All
Working Moms

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Sep 12, 2020

To My Son the Compassionate

A letter to my nine-year-old as he returns to school and faces life again — Dear Matthew, You were the child I was so determined to have that at forty I became a single mother by choice. For the past nine years, you have shown me every day how smart that decision was. You’ve gone from having me all to yourself to being a wonderful…

Kindness

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To My Son the Compassionate
To My Son the Compassionate
Kindness

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Sep 10, 2020

Successful Investing: It’s Easier Than You Think

3 Tips to Start You on Your New Financial Journey…Anyone Can Do It — Money. We all need it. We never seem to have enough. And most of us wish we had started saving earlier. But money is nothing more than a tool that can work for or against you, lifting you to great heights or miring you in misery. …

Investing Tips

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Successful Investing: It’s Easier Than You Think
Successful Investing: It’s Easier Than You Think
Investing Tips

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Sep 5, 2020

All We Need is Not Love…It’s Forgiveness

In forgiving my mother, I learned life’s greatest lesson — A daughter resenting her mother? Not exactly new. To me, my mother was a prisoner of traditional Chinese culture, valuing her sons over her daughters. A Chinese boy is the family pride; a Chinese girl is the family support. I was five when my family was smuggled into New York…

Forgiveness

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All We Need is Not Love…It’s Forgiveness
All We Need is Not Love…It’s Forgiveness
Forgiveness

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Min Chan

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Proud mom of two, lawyer trying to help working moms achieve work-life balance, legal innovator

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