In September of 2020, a reported 865K women left the workforce in the US. Many of these women are caregivers and moms who felt they had no choice but to step away from work to keep their children's education on track and keep their family intact. In this episode, I share some stats, helpful resources I've found for you to gain support, learn skills, and gain hope for starting over with the flexibility to care for yourself and your family.
The pressure on parents is off the charts right now, but the burden on women is far more significant as we fill the role of primary caregiver and often earn less than our male partners. America was not, is not, prepared to support working parents. We cannot send our children to school for a full day, and many child care centers have reduced service or shut down completely. And given the pandemic's precautions, it's that much more difficult and expensive to hire a qualified, healthy caregiver, babysitter, or nanny to support us at home.
Jump to stats on women leaving & corporate perks
https://youtu.be/Q9F67mjpaXw?t=988
///// Resources for women and moms searching for support ways to find flexible work /////
The Mom Project - support for finding family-friendly jobs, RISE scholarship for women of color, their UNITY support program and more
https://themomproject.com/
SKILLS AND ONLINE COURSES
General Assembly FREE Fridays - A collection of FREE 2-hour webinars to uplevel your digital and marketing skills and spark up a new career path
https://generalassemb.ly/
SAS for Women - divorce support, coaching, free articles, classes for greater perspective, sisterhood, and empowerment
https://sasforwomen.com/
ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder Association - structure is gone, distractions are high. Whether you have kids with ADD, have it yourself, or feel distracted and unable to cope, this is a fantastic resource for creating some perspective and learning strategies that foster sanity and productivity. ADDA is giving access to their courses for free at this time.
https://add.org/
PEP Parenting - support for families through education and enrichment. PEP offers support in the way of low priced courses and live webinars ($25) on specific parenting topics, many related to COVID, .
http://pepparent.org/
Ghost.org - for simple websites that don't involve the headache of WordPress and plug-ins. Ghost sites load FAST, look beautiful, and are easy to modify. Working with Ghost is similar to writing for Medium.com. I'll have a tutorial soon showing you how to build your website or blog quickly.
Note: I loved it so much I became an affiliate, so I will earn a few dollars if you decide to use it after the FREE trial period. My Affiliate link: https://ghost.org/?via=stephani61
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I had the good fortune to start the earliest parts of my life in a communal Christian environment. Growing up this way as a child of a single mother to three children I saw first hand the struggle of adults navigating power dynamics within the church and within smaller church groups. I noticed that adults had a tough time seeing the manipulation and duplicity that was so clear to me. In spite of or because of this I found myself on a path that connected me to a series of power struggles with narcissists at work and in romantic and family relationships.
I was stuck and wanted to break free of my situation and my repeating relationship patterns. When I finally did so I saw that many women were experiencing the very same things. I decided to explore this via my Audacious Life podcast where I interview survivors and experts on toxic relationships and how to manage, step away, and heal from them.
I then found myself a single mother with two children who also needed to heal from all that we'd been through. This healing process was the start of breaking away from the structure of a 9-5 job and creating my own work from home position creating social media, marketing videos, and morphing into personal branding and visibility and general content strategy.
I'm a creator at heart and love to write. I have a degree in film and feel alive working with audio/video with a powerful message that makes you think or inspires hope.
Restarting this channel after 5 years of status quo is scary but exciting at the same time. So happy to be here. Wish me luck!!
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