EP20: Suzanne Brown, Author & Mom of two, empowering women find the elusive work-life “balance”

To kick off our second season, we are chatting with Suzanne Brown, a mom of 2 young boys, this week.  Suzanne is a strategic marketing and business consultant, speaker (including a TEDx talk), avid international traveler, work-life balance expert and advocate, and author.  Her books include: Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family and The Mompowerment Guide to Work-life Balance. She empowers moms to think differently about their career approach and provides guidance on work-life balance through her own experience and research as well as stories, insights, and advice from more than 110 interviews with professional part-time working moms.   Listen as Suzanne shares how: Her day is structured to allow for “me” time. She negotiated and moved to part-time in the corporate world after having her son prematurely. She maintains her boundaries and priorities to keep her work and life balanced. She worked towards finding who SHE was again after becoming a mom. She maintained who she was after she had her second child. Traveling has always been a part of her family life. Engaging with other moms energizes her. She gives her children space after school.   Quotables: “If I’m trying to do a checkbox every day, I would fail. But, if I look week or month, I’m doing great.” - Suzanne Brown “Motherhood in general was kind of a shock to my system.” - Suzanne Brown “We honestly thought we could just nicely tuck this child into this very active lifestyle.” - Suzanne Brown “I literally woke up after a year of being a mom, looked in the mirror and thought “Where did I go?” - Suzanne Brown “It’s really hard when your child is your greatest source of frustration.” - Suzanne Brown “I feel like if someone said ‘it’s ok for everything not to be unicorns and rainbows all the time, that doesn’t make you a bad mom.  It just means you are a human being and have to try something different.’” - Suzanne Brown Links from Show: Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family  by Suzanne Brown Bad Moms Soundtrack Hardcore 24by Janet Evanovich The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life Paperback–  by Renée Peterson Trudeau   EPISODE SPONSORS: Crate Joy This podcast is made possible by listeners, like you.  We believe that community is key to motherhood, we invite you to consider joining our Patreon community and supporting us with a monthly donation on our page: www.patreon.com/momdeconstructed.   If you would like to become one of our sponsors visit: www.momdeconstructed.com/advertisingand start the conversation! All our sponsor offers are available on our website.  To get all the discounts and perks go to www.momdeconstructed.com/sponsors   MORE FROM SUZANNE Mompowerment Website Follow Suzanne on Facebook. Follow Suzanne on Instagram. Follow Suzanne on Pinterest. Follow Suzanne on Twitter.   MORE FROM MOM DECONSTRUCTED: Support this podcast on Patreon. Leave a review on ITunes here. Sign up for our newsletter here. Follow Mom Deconstructed on Facebook. Follow Mom Deconstructed on Instagram. Follow Mom Deconstructed on Twitter.   MORE FROM KATE: Kate Turza, Postpartum Doula Follow Kate on Facebook Join Kate’s Facebook Group, Reality Tykes   MORE FROM LIZ Mom...In The Works Follow Liz on Facebook Follow Liz on Instagram   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices