Executive. Mom. Blog.

The working world is filled with many executives… and fortunately, for the future of humanity, the world is well-supplied with mothers. However, when you combine the two into one woman, a rather fantastic alchemy can occur. Yet “executive moms” are a group that we humbly submit is the most undervalued, undersupported “giant niche” across the globe. In 2002, Executive Moms was born out of that insight – and the simple recognition that when you give already pretty fabulous women like this the simple gift of connection with other women like themselves (along with a few helpful tips and ideas), they (or rather, we) are truly capable of anything.

A Little New Year’s Perspective

Posted on January 14, 2010, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

Did you have a happy new year? I really did. And also didn’t. Allow me to recap: My holiday break started the Monday morning of Christmas week (days I had saved and coveted as a combination of “me” time and.

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The Greatness (and Occasional Ugliness) of Moms Online

Posted on November 20, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 10 Comments

As I just noted in this week’s “Executive Momorandum,” it is a source of delight and some amusement to me that Moms have “suddenly” become the hot target audience; new darlings in the media, and the new dominators OF the.

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Executive, Mom (and oh yeah, Wife)

Posted on September 17, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

If there is any belief fundamental to the ideology of Executive Moms, it is that we are women with a terrifically complex, diverse array of interests that defy reducing into any simple label. Just because we are “working moms” does.

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A Jacket and Heels in a Sea of Spandex and Asics

Posted on August 19, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

One advantage of living in New York City, this great teeming bastion of worklife, is that you rarely feel like the only woman on the train platform who has just kissed her kids goodbye for the day. One of the.

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In Support of Sisterhood

Posted on July 9, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 1 Comment

First, let me start with what some might deem a girlish tendency– the need to apologize. I haven’t blogged in a while (though I have sufficiently chastised myself for not doing so). I’m really sorry. It can get a little.

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“Your Biggest Working Mom Questions” – Favorite Quotes

Posted on April 30, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 2 Comments

We shared this over email and I wanted to share it here too– the Executive Moms 2009 Luncheon was this last Tuesday in New York, and it may well have been our best event ever. Over 180 women packed the.

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My Moment of Post-Modern (and Surely Fleeting) “Popularity”

Posted on March 23, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 0 Comments

This proves to be an interesting post to come on the heels of my last one, reflecting on how we might want to consider the blurred lines between our private and public personas in the ever-expanding social media playgrounds. I’ve.

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How Public Should Your Public Persona Be?

Posted on March 19, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 1 Comment

One of the advantages of being a corporate digital marketer by trade is that it provides license, if not a mandate, to spend time on places like Facebook and Twitter during the day. (The rest of you have to pretend.

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Thank You, Lilly Ledbetter

Posted on March 2, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 1 Comment

Do you know the name Lilly Ledbetter? Do you know why she was sitting as a guest in Michelle Obama’s box during President Obama’s Congressional Address last week? Lilly Ledbetter may not have fit the typical profile of an Executive.

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Our Work, Our Selves

Posted on February 17, 2009, in Executive. Mom. Blog., with 3 Comments

Living in New York City, which can be duly considered the “ground zero” of our current recession, it seems impossible to stand clear of the giant economic chisel from on high that is chipping away indiscriminately at so many jobs,.

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