Love your career? Love your family? Best of Both Worlds is the show for you! Hosts Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It and a mom of five, and Sarah Hart-Unger, a practicing physician, blogger, and mom of three, discuss work/life balance, career development, parenting, time management, productivity, and making time for fun. Tune in each week for strategies to help you thrive in all spheres of life.
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Podcast: How to craft a career that works for you
I'm mostly off-line this week with spring break, but I'm just popping in here to talk about this week's podcast. It's really a good one, …Read More
Podcast: Making life work, with emergency medicine physician Swati Singh
I forget where it was, but I recently heard a woman remark "Well, you see, my husband's a doctor." The implication was that she needed …Read More
Podcast: Work/life balance with librarian Hannah Olsen
Part of the Best of Both Worlds podcast mission is to share stories and strategies from of lots of different women. How do people from …Read More
Podcast: Making time for community and volunteering
When I ask people what they'd like to spend more time doing, volunteering lands on the list almost as frequently as exercise and reading. People would …Read More
Podcast: The great decluttering debate
Organized is not the same thing as tidy. I realized this, years ago, when I invited a prominent professional organizer into my home as part …Read More
Podcast: Meredith Bodgas, Working Mother, tips and strategies
I am a long-time fan of Working Mother magazine. If you have been reading this blog for a while, you may recall that I did …Read More
Podcast: On putting in the hours when the kids are little
This week I experienced the main segment of the podcast as a listener, and not a participant. Sarah interviewed Rebecca Fike, a lawyer, exercise enthusiast, blogger …Read More
Podcast: Travel with kids — pain, pleasure, and everything in between
Whenever I hear people talking about how relaxing it is to go on vacation, and how important it is to get away from the stresses …Read More
Podcast discussion thread: Make new friends, but keep the old…
There are several versions of a "dilemma" circulating in social media: Work, family, friends — pick two! Or sometimes we get work, family, friends, exercise, …Read More
Podcast: “Parenting is a creative act”
This week Sarah and I welcomed Leanne Sowul to the podcast (that link on her name takes you to her home page; please sign up …Read More