How to Thrive as a Working Parent

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🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Daisy Dowling, founder and CEO of Workparent, says that moms and dads with jobs outside the home don't have to feel stressed or guilty about trying to balance their professional and personal lives. The key is to tease apart the different challenges -- from coping with feelings of loss to managing practicalities -- and to adopt strategies to better guide you through each. She points out that while a lot of emphasis is placed on parental leave, and especially new mothers, people at all stages of parenting need practical, immediate, and effective solutions they can implement themselves. Dowling is the author of the HBR article "A Working Parent’s Survival Guide."

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0:19.0	And, thanks for listening. Welcome to the HPR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. Okay, listeners, get ready for a confession.
0:49.0	Okay, listeners, get ready for a confession.
0:51.0	There is a problem that I've struggled with every single day for the past 11 years.
0:56.0	I bet it's an issue that some of you deal with too.
0:59.0	Working mom guilt. Like all of you, I'm a person who wants to be great at work and at home.
1:05.0	To give 100% to my job and 100% to my family, my husband, my two kids, my parents, even my cat.
1:12.0	I want to edit important articles, interview smart people, attend key
1:15.9	conferences, and help with homework. Go to all the soccer games. Tuck everyone in at
1:20.3	night. In theory, it's totally doable and I do make it work but it's also a
1:25.2	hectic stressful and because I can't be in two places at once guilt-inducing
1:30.7	existence. Our guest today is on a mission to help working parents like
1:34.6	me navigate these issues and with decades of experience in HR as a consultant and now
1:39.7	as a mom herself she has tons of practical advice. Daisy Dowling is founder and
1:44.9	CEO of Work Parent. She's also the author of the HPR article A Working Parent
1:49.2	Survival Guide. Daisy, thanks so much for being on the show. Thank you so much for having me.
1:54.0	So when we talk about the stresses of being working parents it often seems like
2:07.8	this one big massive problem but are there separate challenges that we need to think about?
2:17.0	Absolutely. I think the daunting scary thing for most working parents is that it feels as if they're looking at one big
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